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10(1. BOARMIA PLAGIARJA. Mas. Cinerea, capite fusco-bifasciato, 

 palpis caput vix superantibus extus fuscis, thorace fusco-bifasciato, 

 ahdomine fusco-consperso fascicule apicali longo pallide cinereo, alia 

 irigro-conspersis hneis quatuor nigris obliquis angulosis indeterminatis- 

 lunulis marginalibus nigris, alis anticis fasciis duabus fuscis indeter- 

 Diinatis plagis nonnullis postraediis nigro-fuscis. 



Male. Cinereous. Head with two brown bands. Palpi hardly 

 extending beyond the head, brown 011 the outer side. Antennae 

 broadly pectinated, except towards the tips. Thorax with two brown 

 bands. Abdomen with brown speckles, not extending beyond the 

 hind wings ; apical tuft elongate, pale cinereous. Legs brown- 

 speckled. Wings black-speckled, with four zigzag oblique irregular 

 incomplete black lines, two anteinedial, two postmedial ; marginal 

 lunules black ; under side with a brown lunule in the disk and with 

 two exterior zigzag brown lines. Fore wings with two very incomplete 

 brown bands, one between the antemedial lines, the second between 

 the postmedial lines, which have also between them some blackish 

 brown patches. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



Genus OBILA. 



Fczm. Corpus robustum, laeve. Proboscis valida. Palpi lati, 

 porrecti, caput perpaullo superantes ; articulus lus subtus dense fim- 

 briatus ; 3us brevissimus. Pedes laeves, tenues ; calcaria gracilia. 

 Ala3 latissimae ; anticaa acuta3, margine exteriore vix convexo ; postica? 

 abdomen superantes. 



Female. Body stout, smooth. Proboscis robust. Palpi broad, 

 porrect, extending a little beyond the head ; first joint densely 

 fringed beneath; third extremely short. Abdomen somewhat shorter 

 than the interior border of the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender ; 

 spurs slender. Wings very broad. Fore wings acute; exterior 

 border hardly rounded, moderately oblique ; third inferior vein remote 

 from the second. 



101. OBILA DISPAR. Fcem. Cervina, subtus cinerea, thorace 

 albido-vario, alis anticis basi albis lineis quinque antemediis nigris 

 transversis angulosis 4a 5aque subobsoletis fascia media alba annulum 

 nigrum includente lineis tribus exterioribus nigris angulosis la '^aque 

 valcle indistinctis 3a valde flexa maculis submarginalibus albis nigro 

 submarginatis, alis posticis fuscis fascia marginali lata cervina lineis 

 quatuor nigricantibus angulosis includente. 



Female. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Thorax partly whitish. 

 Fore wings white at the base, near which there are two black zigzag 

 transverse lines ; a third and some traces of two more such lines on 

 the inner side of an irregular white middle band, which includes an 



