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the pattern of the secondaries. The following is undoubtedly 

 a Dirades : 



5. Dirades aluensis, sp. n. 



Allied to Erosia theclata=E. adjutaria (females of Dirades 

 tinotata) the sexes of the same general shapes and colours ; 

 male vinous brown : primaries with blackish costa ; a semi- 

 circular black spot beyond the middle of inner margin ; an 

 oblique subapical blackish dash and an interrupted pale-edged 

 black submarginal line j apex black on the fringe : secon- 

 daries with the basi-internal half bounded externally by a 

 whitish line, which is elbowed just before it reaches the abdo- 

 minal margin ; the inferior half of the basal area bounded by 

 a black line, its anterior half also being bright copper- red and 

 its posterior half grey ; abdominal fold white ; fringe from 

 apex to second caudate angle black. The female is greyer 

 than the male, and, owing to the greater width of the secon- 

 daries, the angle of the line bounding the basal area is formed 

 in the middle of the wing the red longitudinal band from 

 the base is darker and duller, and the whole of the remainder 

 of the wing is grey, with the exception of a black-edged spot 

 on basi-internal half : body greyish brown, with the antennas 

 and tegulss whitish. Under surface pale brown, the secon- 

 daries paler than the primaries j the male of a more golden 

 brown than the female. Expanse of wings, $ 18 millim., 

 ? 20 millim. 



Alu. 



Hypenidae. 

 6. Ilypena iridis, sp. n. 



Primaries above brown, the basal two thirds shot with lilac 

 in certain lights, bounded externally by a black transverse 

 line (on the inner side of which the shot-colouring is wanting 

 so as to leave a band of the ground-colour) edged externally 

 with snow-white, immediately following which is a diffused 

 band of lilacine scales j a marginal series of whitish and black 

 dots 5 fringe whity brown, tipped with dark grey and with 

 two central wavy * dark grey lines : secondaries grey-brown, 

 with a darker marginal line ; fringe whiter than in primaries ; 

 costal border whitish : body brown. Under surface sericeous 

 greyish brown ; wings with a black marginal line j fringes 

 as above. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



Nearest to H> iconicalis from Ceylon, Java, &c., with 

 similar palpi. 



