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hairs and scales ; fore wing with oblique waved pinkish antemedial, postmedial and 

 submarginal lines, the first indistinct ; a black dot on disc ; three on costa towards apex 

 and a series on submarginal line, the first being near apex, the second between veins 5 

 and 6 and the remainder, variable in number, situate between veins 1 and 3 ; outer 

 margin and cilia somewhat suffused with pink ; a black dentate marginal dot in the 

 interspace between each vein. Hind wing as fore wing except that the antemedial line is 

 even more indistinct and the postmedial line is marked on inner margin by a black dot. 

 Expanse 28 — 30 mm. 



Seychelles: Mahe, 1000 ft. ^ and ? ; Silhouette, 1500 ft., 1^. 



57. ArcBopterum minimale, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; a ring of black scales surrounding eyes. Palpi 

 upturned, slender, hardly reaching vertex ; the second and thiixl joints black tipped with 

 yellow ; antennse nearly simple, greyish ochreous : fore legs greyish black ; mid and hind 

 legs white ; abdomen greyish irrorated with black and yellow posteriorly. Fore wing 

 with ground colour white ; a sharply angulated sub-basal line meeting on costa a yellow 

 bordered black dash ; trace of a median grey fascia, most distinct on disc and continued 

 on costa as a distinct yellow -edged black dash, which is often double ; a black spot in cell 

 on the inner edge of the median fascia ; traces of a waved submarginal line ; outer margin 

 suffused with smoky black ; a marginal series of brown points and from apex to second 

 costal spot a series of brown dashes ; cilia grey irrorated with black. Hind wing as fore 

 wing but without costal spots ; the median fascia more strongly marked ; the terminal 

 suffusion darker and bordered on its inner edge with yellowish fuscous ; sometimes some 

 yellowish scales in fascia. 



$. The examples of the $ are in rather poor condition : they appear to resemble the 

 ? exactly except in being somewhat lighter in colour. Expanse 10 — 11 mm. 



This species is closely allied to A. goniopJwra Hamps. and A. griseata Hamps. fi-om 

 which it differs in having the ground colour of the fore wing white, the markings more 

 distinct, the costal spots outlined with yellow and in the hind wing the median area of 

 the wing somewhat suffused with ochreous. 



Seychelles : Mahe, low country to 1000 ft., 2^,2?; F^licit^, 2 $. 



58. Bryophilopsis rcederi (Standf ). 



Bryophila rcederi Standf, Romanoff Mem., vi, p. 665, pi. 25, fig. 4; Stand., Cat. 

 Lep. Pal., p. 167. 



Aldabra. 3 worn specimens are perhaps referable to the above species, though they 

 much resemble Asinchrona nesta (Fletcher), a species which appears to me to be very 

 closely allied to B. rcederi. Armenia, Syria. Mesopotamia. 



59. Earias insulann Boisd., Faun. Ent. Madag., p. 121, pi. 16, fig. !). 

 Seychelles: Bird Island, 1 ^, 2 ?, July 1908. This species was probably introduced 



with the cotton plant [Gossypium) which is not uncommon. Throughout Ethiopian and 

 Oriental regions to Siam. 



60. Ophideres mateiiia (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i, 2, p. 840. 



A single specimen flew on board the schooner Charlotte, when some 40 miles S.W. of 



