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inarched towards costa, otherwise parallel to outer margin ; an ill- 

 defined submarginal macular stripe ; fringe dusky spotted with 

 sordid white ; secondaries with pale fringe ; thorax in front slightly 

 brownish, antennae with ferruginous pectinations; under surface 

 of wings pearl-grey, the borders tinted with golden brown ; no 

 markings ; pectus whitish ; legs and venter pale brown. Expanse 

 of wings, 41 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



LASIOCAMPID.E. 



COSMOTRICHE, Hilbll. 



8. Cosmotriche indistincta, n. s. 



$ . Allied to C. exposita of Lewin,* but paler ; wings of a 

 semitransparent smoky grey tint; primaries a little darker than 

 secondaries, with an abbreviated indistinct dusky oblique stripe 

 across the middle of the interno-median area, and traces of a sub- 

 marginal series of dusky spots upon the veins ; head and front of 

 collar blackish, centre of thorax dusky, abdomen brown ; antennae 

 with testaceous pectinations ; body below smoky-brown ; wings 

 more uniform in tint than above, wholly destitute of markings. 

 Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



PINAEA, Walk. 



This was described as a genus of Arctiidce ; the typical 

 species, P. cana, consisted of the females of three 

 species of Walker's genus Entometa, placed by him in 

 the Psychidce ; the female of a fourth species was, how- 

 ever, referred to its proper family, and placed in the 

 genus Opsirhina. 



9. Pinara rufescens, n. s. 



c?. Intermediate in character between P. divisa and P. 

 sesioides, but with the secondaries of a uniform rufous-brown tint ; 

 primaries with the basal two-fifths to submedian vein and the 

 costal area to lower radial vein reddish chocolate ; remainder of 

 the wing pale rufous-brown, sparsely irrorated with cream-coloured 

 scales ; a straight transverse creamy yellowish stripe across the 

 basal fifth from costa to submedian vein ; a white transverse spot 

 across the end of the cell ; a whitish stripe across the middle of the 

 disc, incurved towards costa, lunulated and interrupted by the 



* This species was redescribed by Walker under the names of 

 Pcecillogaster liebes and P. Irevis ; Boisduval's Bombyx myceria 

 may be the same moth. 



