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82. Hieroxestis tarsota, n. sp. 



J. 7 — 8 mm. Head white, crown with an irregular transverse blackish bar mixed 

 with ferruginous, occipital tuft mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi white, second joint 

 externally with a blackish line. Thorax blackish marked with white. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, acute, upturned; shining bronzy-fulvous; 

 costa suffused with black, but extreme costal edge white; a narrow white basal fascia, 

 and a narrow inwardly oblique white posteriorly black-margined fascia at \, connected 

 below middle by a white streak edged beneath with black suffusion ; a trapezoidal white 

 blotch on middle of costa, and an irregular white blotch crossing wing at f , separated 

 on costa by a patch of black suffusion ; a white longitudinal streak beneath middle of 

 wing, edged beneath with black; a white spot on termen beneath apex, sometimes 

 confluent with preceding transverse patch: cilia white, on costa with a black basal line 

 running into apex and blackish median shade becoming fulvous towards apex, beneath apex 

 with a bluish-silvery spot, towards tornus suffused with grey, mixed with blackish towards 

 base except on a white extension of terminal spot. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Mahe, near Morne Blanc, 1000 feet; Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet; 

 in September and October, two specimens. 



83. Hieroxestis heliogramma, n. sp. 



$. 8 — 9 mm. Head and thorax pale bronzy-yellowish sprinkled with ferruginous- 

 orange, fillet, face, and palpi whitish. Antenna? over 1. Abdomen light grey, anal tuft 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, acute, strongly upturned; shining 

 brassy -whitish ; some scattered orange scales beneath costa; narrow golden-orange median 

 and subdorsal streaks from base, uniting in disc at §, thence rather upcurved and con- 

 tinued along costa to apex ; a line of scattered black scales along lower margin of discal 

 portion of this streak beyond §, continued anteriorly to dorsum; a slender golden-orange 

 streak along termen: cilia on costa pale ochreous, at apex with a golden-orange bar, 

 on termen whitish irregularly sprinkled with blackish points. Hindwings light grey, 

 apex whitish; cilia whitish-grey, at tips and round apex whitish. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet, in September; two specimens. 



84. Hieroxestis rhothiaula, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head white. Palpi whitish, suffused with dark grey externally. Antennas 1. 

 Thorax white, patagia bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, 

 apex produced, acute, upturned; bronzy-fuscous becoming dark fuscous posteriorly, with 

 prismatic reflections; a moderately broad white streak along dorsum from base to tornus, 

 where it is truncate, but connected on margin with a narrow white streak along termen 

 to near apex; a fine white very oblique strigula from costa near apex: cilia whitish, 

 on costa with a black basal streak, round apex with a blackish median line, above 

 apex with a grey patch towards tips. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey. 



Silhouette, forest above Mare aux Cochons, in September; one specimen. 



85. Hieroxestis ensifera, n. sp. 



$%. 9 — 10 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous externally, 

 terminal joint loosely rough-scaled anteriorly. Antenna? over 1. Thorax white, spots on 

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