512 ARCTIAD^. 



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1678 cf. Msenas semiramis. 



Spilosoma semiramis, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 161, pi. 3. f. 4 (1891); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 908. 



Pale grej'-brown. Fore wing with blackish subbasal spot below 

 costa ; an antemedial series of five spots partially conjoined towards 

 costa ; medial spots below costa, on median nervure, and above 

 vein 1 ; two discoidal points with a spot above them on costa ; a 

 spot just beyond lower angle of cell, and others on veins 2 and 1 ; 

 a slightly curved postmedial series of six spots, the two towards 

 costa conjoined, a subterminal series of six points on the veins from 

 costa to vein 3 ; a series of dark points on cilia. Hind wing 

 brownish white, with fuscous discoidal bar ; a small subterminal 

 spot above vein 5, and others above and below 2 and on vein 1. 



JIab. Asia Minor ; Syria, 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 



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1682 fl. Maenas flavata, n. sp. (Plate LI. fig. 7.) 



c^ . Head and thorax black-brown ; legs orange-yellow ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow, with dorsal black stripes narrowing and broken up 

 into bands towards extremity. Fore wing orange-yellow ; the base 

 and inner area to antemedial line suff"used with black ; the ante- 

 and postmedial black lines rather diff"used, the former angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique, the latter interruped in places, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; a prominent 

 small discoidal black spot ; a terminal blackish band with minutely 

 dentate inner edge. Hind wing orange-yellow, with narrow 

 terminal black band from costa to vein 3, with dentate inner edge 

 and a slight mark at vein 1. 



Hab. Peru, Limbane, 6000 feet (Siynons), 1 c? type. E.rp. 28 

 miUim. 



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1687. Msenas labonlbeni, insert (syn.) Palustra argentina, 

 Berg, Ann. Soc. Argent, iii. p. 22 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 225. 



(5 . Hind wing white, slightly tinged with ochreous towards 

 termen. — Argentina, type f J in Mus. Buenos Ayres. 



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1690 a. Maenas tenuis. (Plate LI. fig. 8.) 



Palustra tenuis, Berg, Stett, ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 259 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 225. 



J . Fulvous brown ; fore coxae at sides and femora above orange ; 

 abdomen dorsally orange. Fore wing with indistinct dark dis- 

 coidal spot and curved slightly waved subterminal line. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the inner area with some orange hair ; the costal 



