430 Mr. W. Scliaus on 



a roseate brown fringe behind head. Teoulse, patagia, and 

 tlioiax grey, a fine brownish line on latter posteriorly. 

 Abdomen dor.*ally violaceous brown; an angled whitisli 

 shade at base ; last two segments lilacine white crossed by a 

 segmental brownish line ; lateral tufts and underneath 

 yellowish. Fore wings pale lilacine brown; base, costa, 

 apex, and termen pale grey ; basal space limited by a brown 

 antemedial line, deeply incurved below cell, and containing 

 a small brown spot on costa near base ; the grey on costa 

 medially entering cell ; a large irregular, darker brown s[iot 

 at end of cell ; traces o£ a postmedial darker line, chit-fly 

 beyond cell and on inner margin ; a fine dark subteiminal line, 

 irregularly outbent from costa, nearly touching a fine terminal 

 brown line between veins 5 and 3, then incurved to inner 

 margin, se{)aiates the lilacine brown portion from terminal 

 space, and is followed on inner margin by an ujjright fuscous 

 streak; cilia whitish grey. Hind wings : a narrow whitish- 

 grey space at base, limited by a dark brown line ; ante- 

 medial space and inner margin lilacine, irrorated with 

 purplish brown; a medial opalescent, semihyaline space, 

 narrowest on costa and not reaching inner margin, followed 

 by a narrow brown shade and a very irregular dark brown 

 ])Ostmedial line, geminate near costa ; postmedial followed 

 Irom costa to vein 4 by a broad slate-grey shade, which 

 becomes narrow^er and paler from vein 4 to inner margin at 

 tornus; terminal area lilacine shaded with brown and 

 crossed by a darker brown shade, almost black from costa to 

 vein 4; a terminal brown line; cilia yellowish white, shaded 

 with dark brown at vein 6, where the margin is slightly 

 })roduced and angled. Fore wings below roseate; apex and 

 inner margin whitish ; a marginal broad black shade from 

 vein 3 to tornus. Hind wings below luteous ; a very bruad 

 black shade on out^r maroin. 



o 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Uab. Sixola. 



{Superficially like D. admirahilis, Obt. 



Dithadama delila, sp. n. 



? . Palpi and frons dark reddish brown ; vertex, collar, 

 and thorax dark grey ; abdomen grey irrorated with reddish 

 brown. Fore wings silvery grey with darker inorations; 

 from middle of costa to inner margin before middle a wavy 

 maroon-red line, inwardly edged with whitish, outwardly 

 with reddish brown, which extends almost to outer line and 

 is interrupted by a greyish spot on discocellular, and fuscuUcj 



