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fold, then incurved ; the medial part of eosta with yellow 

 points ; a postmedial yellowish baud incurved below vein 4. 

 Hind wing brown with darker irroration. 

 Hab. Kashmir, Dras [Leech), 1 ^ type. Exp. IG mm. 



(18 a.) Bostra leucostiymalis, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with dull 

 rufous ; palpi blackish, with white band at extremity of 

 second joint ; abdomen with black segmental lines, the 

 terminal half tinged with purplish fuscous and with a white 

 dorsal band on subterminal segment. Fore wing grey 

 suffused strongly with purple ; some rufous at base ; an 

 indistinct, oblique, pale, waved antemedial line ; some white 

 points on medial part of eosta; a black discoidal spot; a 

 large elliptical hyaline white spot beyond lower angle of 

 cell, with cupreous red on its outer side ; a whitish post- 

 medial line obtusely angled below eosta, then bent inwards 

 to the hyaline spot, and acutely angled outwards on vein 1 ; 

 terminal area blackish with purple and cupreous reflections. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with purple; some red below the 

 cell ; a bar-shaped white spot from lower angle of cell to 

 vein 1, defined on outer side by the waved postmedial line, 

 which is indistinct towards eosta and inner margin, black 

 beyond the spot, followed by a cupreous patch; terminal 

 area fuscous towards apex; both wings with. black terminal 

 line intersected with cupreous points; cilia blackish mixed 

 with white at tips. 



Hab. Germ. E. Africa, Mikindani (Reiiner) . Exp. 

 18 mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild. 



(18 b.) Bostra xanthorhodalis, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright crimson, third 

 joint of palpi and frons yellow : pectus and femora pale 

 crimson, tibiai and tarsi and ventral surface of abdomen 

 yellow. Fore wing bright crimson ; the medial area bright 

 yellow bounded by the fine black ante- and postmedial lines, 

 the former obliquely curved, the latter excurved between 

 veins 5 and 2. Hind wing bright crimson ; the medial area 

 bright yellow bounded by the fine black subbasal and post- 

 medial lines, the latter obliquely excurved from eosta to 

 vein 2, then retracted. 



Hab. Natal, Durban [Leigh), 1 ? type. Exp. 22 mm. 



