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shortage of raaferial and prepourlerance of ? ? in the 

 British Museum collection at that time, he mixed in some 

 very heterogenous elements. A. obrinaria, Gi\. = califfata, 

 Wii\k. = similaria, Walk., and A. pallida (bon. sp. ?) belong- 

 to the typical section Aaisodes and have no areole. .1. obli- 

 viaria, Wii\k.=-su.'ipicaria, Snell., to the section PerLvera, 

 Meyr. (nee Hamps.), also with no areole, but with hind 

 femur tufted. 



I should have considered this a local form — more rufes- 

 cent — of niveopuncta, Warr. (Nov. Zool. iv. p. JjS), but the 

 genitalia show that it has reached full specific rank. In 

 niveopuncta the uncus is more long and slender, the valves 

 very different, the penis has a very distinct cornutus (or 

 perhaps buncli of cornuti), and there is a better developed 

 pair of hair-brushes on the 4th (?) abdominal segment. 



4. Flavinia allogaster. 



(?.— 30 mm. 



Closely similar to circumdata, Maassen (Stiibel's Reisen, 

 Lep. pp. 101, 130, t. iv. f. 22). Abdomen with a pale dorsal 

 line as in alcidamea, Druce (Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1890, 

 p. 498). 



Fore wing with the apical black boi'der broadened, its 

 proximal edge on the upper surface at B,^ being over 4 mm. 

 from the apex, at R' fully 3 mm. from termen, on the 

 under surface very slightly less broad ; black on hind 

 margin slightly broadened. 



Hind wing with the black distal border above less narrowed 

 between R^ and M". 



Peru, without more exact locality. Type in coll. Joicey 

 (ex Schaus) ; three in coll. Brit. Mus. from the same source, 

 mixed with true circumdata. 



Family Drepanidae. 



5. Cyclidia substigmaria, Hbn. 



It has been unaccountably overlooked that this species was 

 described and figured by Hiibner ('Zutrlige,' iii. 29, figs. 519- 

 520) from " China," i. e. no doubt S. China, and represents 

 unmistakably the form later described by Walker (List Lep. 

 Ins. xxiv. 1121) from Hong Kong as " Abraxas" capitafa, 

 though the last-named author neglects to describe the 

 underside. The common Indian race, which has for so long 

 passed as substigmaria (see, for instance, Hampson's ' Fauna 



