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whitish. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous sprinkled with grey 

 and blackish. Forewings very narrow, elongate-lanceolate; shining dark purplish-leaden- 

 fuscous; black subcostal and median dots near base; four very large blackish tufts 

 obscurely edged with light ochreous-yellowish, viz., one on fold before ^, one beneath 

 middle of costa, one above dorsum slightly beyond this, and one in disc at §; a bent 

 submetallic bluish-leaden transverse line at f ; some black dots on costa and termen 

 towards apex : cilia slaty -grey. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia slaty-grey. 



Mahe, Mare aux Cochons distinct, 1500 feet, in January; two specimens. 



Calicotjs Meyr. 



54. Calicotis animula, n. sp. 



$$. 7 — 8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antennae and abdomen whitish. 

 Posterior legs white banded more or less indistinctly with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 very narrow, widest near base, thence narrowed to acute apex ; white ; an inwards-oblique 

 grey-yellowish transverse line before middle; a suffused grey-yellowish or greyish spot 

 with some blackish scales on tornus: cilia white. Hindwings and cilia white. 



Mahe, Mare aux Cochons district, near Morne Blanc, and Cascade Estate, 1000 feet; 

 Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, and south side of Mont Pot-a-eau, 1000 — 1500 feet; 

 from August to March, twenty-six specimens. 



Cuphodes Meyr. 



55. Cuphodes tridora, n. sp. 



<£$. 7 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax ochreous-white. Abdomen light 

 grey. Posterior legs white ringed with blackish. Forewings narrow, widest near base, 

 unevenly narrowed posteriorly, rather short-pointed; blackish; three short white streaks 

 from base, between which are two ochreous-yellow streaks; irregular rather inwardly 

 oblique white ti'ansverse fasciae at ^ and § ; median area mostly occupied by a longi- 

 tudinal ochreous-yellow streak above middle and a roundish patch below; a suffused 

 white spot on middle of termen: cilia blackish-grey, towards tips and beneath tornus 

 whitish, round apex sprinkled with ochreous-yellowish towards base. Hindwings dark 

 grey; cilia whitish, sometimes partially suffused with grey. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet upwards, in September; five 

 specimens, one labelled "highest point, 2467 feet." 



56. Cuphodes luxuriosa, n. sp. 



£$. 7 — 8 mm. Head dark purple-bronze, forehead and face shining bronzy-whitish. 

 Palpi yellow-whitish. Antennae dark grey, extreme tip whitish, in $ with short very fine 

 scattered cilia, basal joint long, greyish-ochreous. Thorax deep purple, sides and apex 

 of patagia golden. Abdomen dark bronzy-fuscous, sides golden, beneath yellow-whitish. 

 Posterior tibiae with basal third blackish, central third orange, apical third purple, apical 

 bristles orange with black base. Forewings very narrow, widest near base, thence 

 narrowed to acute apex; deep purple; a pale metallic brassy-yellowish triangular spot on 



