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more oblique, shadow}', not yellow, border of tlic liind wing 

 narrower, anal end of abdomen (from seventh somite) not 

 blackened. Perhaps, as in that species, the colour of the 

 hind wing may vary between yellow and white. 



6. Asota ta/boti, nom. nov. 



Asota intermedia, Joicey and Noakes, Traus, Eut. Soc. Loud. 1915, 

 p. 197, t. xxi. tig. 3 (liec litbschd.) (Biali). 



My attention has been drawn to the fact that the name of 

 inttrniedia is preoccupied in this genus by Asota plana inter- 

 media, Rthschd., Nov. Zool. iv. p. 350 (1897). I have 

 therefore pleasure in renaming it after my friend Mr. Talbot, 

 who I understand worked out its distinctions for the authors. 



7. Cerura ejecla, sp. n. 



J . — 40 mm. 



Face black. Head whitish. Antennal pectinations dark 

 Irown. Thorax and underside of abdomen ochreous whitish, 

 abdomen above mixed white and black (largely abraded). 

 Legs largely whitish, fore leg and tarsi partly darkened. 



/ore i^m^ thinly scaled ; dirty white, with pinkish reflec- 

 tions ; anteriorly (on C or between C and SG^) with black 

 dots and dash, the latter occupying approximately the second 

 iifth of ; transverse markings (and in posterior part of wing 

 a little irroration) fuscous ; aiitemedian line obsolescent, best 

 developed in cell ; orbicular and reniform stigmata white, 

 very ill-detined, finely and incompletely outlined, the former 

 accompanied proximally by a longitudinal blackish-fuscous 

 mark ; median line double, slightly dentate outwards on 

 veins, arising from the distal edge of orbicular and j)roximal 

 edge of reniforn), incurved between M'' and JSM", darker 

 behind M", reaching hind margin well beyond middle ; post- 

 median rather thicker and stronger, more deeply incurved 

 bidiind M- (consequently here aj)proacliing the median), then 

 oblique outwards to hind margin near tornus; traces of a 

 tine and incomplete dujdicating line distally to and parallel 

 with postmcdian ; subterminal line also nearly parallel with 

 these, but foimed ot interncural wedges (anteriorly), dash 

 (between ir and li') or dots (jjosteriorly), the dot between 

 \C and M^ and two nearly at tornus being large ; termen 

 with interneural wedges pointing inwards. 



Hind IV hig white, at abdominal margin smoky; a smoky 

 maik on termen and fringe between M'* and tSM". 



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