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Messrs J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot on new 



suVibasal spot ; at end of cell a laifje spot, red anteriorly and 

 yollow posteriorly, where it is outwardly rounded, and ex- 

 tending beyond cell, its inner edge slightly convex from 

 costa to vein 3, its outer edge incurved to vein 6 ; a narrow 

 postdiscal band of small red spots divided by the veins, 

 curved inward at costa, then outwardly between veins 7 and 3, 

 thence inwardly to inner margin below the cell-spot ; a red 

 terminal border marked with yellow, widest at apex and in 

 cellules 4 and 5 ; costa narrowly red from apical spot to 

 postdiscal band. Hind wing pale yellowish tinged with red, 

 more especially on costa and upper distal portion. 



Underside of fore wing red tinged with ochreous, of hind 

 wing as above, costa red. 



Head and thorax dark grey marked with red, frons and 

 base of head red, thorax with a red mesial line, abdomen pale 

 yellowish tinged with red. Legs and underside of thorax 

 and abdomen red. 



Length of fore wing 17 mm. 



'2 S 6 , Wandammen Mtns., 3000-4000 feet, Nov. 



33. Diacrisia nigi'icorna, sp. n. 



This strongly resembles hiagi f. angiana, Joicey & Talbot, 

 and also elongata. Roths. It is most nearly allied to the latter 

 in shape of wing, but elongata has not the black thoracic 

 patch. No other forms of this group have black antennae. 



cJ . Ground-colour pale ochreous, fore wing with a greyish 

 tinge. Upperside of jore wing with a small black subbasal 

 spot above submedian ; a dot below cell at vein 2 ; at end of 

 cell two black wedge-shaped spots nearly touching one 

 another; two black dots on discocellulars; two postdiscal 

 bands of spots, the first of eight spots from cellule 5 to inner 

 margin, spots 2-4 only separated by the veins, 5 and 6 sepa- 

 rated by vein 2, 7 and 8 by the submedian, spots 1 and 6 

 smaller than the others ; second band of eleven spots from 

 cellule 7 to inner margin in four groups ; asubtcrminal band 

 of six spots on veins 3-8. Hind wing with a large quadrate 

 spot closing the cell ; submarginal spots in 16, 1 c, 2, 4, and 5. 



Underside ochreous yellow, markings as above. 



Palpi, frons, and antennae black ; vertex, tegulse, and 

 patagia brownish ochreous ; central part of thorax black ; 

 abdomen pale orange above with a black dorsal line below 

 brownish ochreous with a black lateral stripe ; pectus and 

 legs black, fore coxje fringed with orange hair, hind tibise 

 fringed with orange and grey hair on inside. 



Length of fore wing 23 mm, 



1 rS , Wandammen Mtns., 3000-4000 feet, Nov. 



