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11. Bocana stellaris, sp. n. 



Allied to B. cesopusalis (of which Diomea bryophiloides is 

 a distorted specimen) : primaries sericeous grey-brown, bronzy 

 in certain lights, crossed at about basal fourth by a crinkled 

 black line ; reniform spot white with black edges ; an arched 

 denticulated white-edged blackish line beyond the middle ; a 

 zigzag series of more or less connected white spots and cres- 

 cents near outer margin, and a marginal series of triangular 

 jet-black spots, relieved on the fringe by a series of subconflu- 

 ent white spots : secondaries paler and greyer than primaries, 

 with a white-bordered angular grey line beyond the middle, 

 and a second, abbreviated, towards anal angle ; a slender 

 black marginal line followed by a white line at the base of 

 the fringe : thorax slightly ochreous, brown ; abdomen grey, 

 with two or three white dorsal spots. Under surface brownish 

 grey, with a faint lilacine tint in certain lights j all the wings 

 with a black-edged white spot at end of cell, and two more or 

 less irregular black discal lines, the outer one interrupted, more 

 or less separated into distinct spots and white-edged exter- 

 nally ; a slender black marginal line, followed by a slender 

 white line at the base of the fringe : body below golden 

 brown. Expanse of wings 24 millim. 



Alu. 



12. Egnasia cenea, sp. n. 



Primaries whity brown, with brassy reflexions; costal 

 border blackish at base ; orbicular spot small, black ; reniform 

 spot large, Q -shaped, black ; two black dots towards base of 

 interno-median area; a longitudinal white streak, interrupted by 

 the ordinary black spots, through the discoidal cell ; an irregu- 

 larly sinuous white discal band, bounded on both sides by a 

 series of subconfluent black spots ; external border suffused 

 with smoky brown : secondaries of male white, with a sub- 

 quadrate basi-internal blackish patch, a black discocellular 

 spot, a black discal line, its central third arched outwards, 

 and a tolerably broad external brown border following the 

 discal line so as to leave a band of white between ; secon- 

 daries of female either as in the male or with the basal area 

 as far as the discal line brown : face, vertex of head, and 

 mesothorax brown, remainder of body white ; terminal joint 

 of palpi and antennae yellow. Under surface whitish varied 

 with testaceous, the latter colouring replacing the brown of 

 the upper surface; black markings ill defined; the whole 

 surface of the wings sericeous, with brassy reflexions. Ex- 

 panse of wings 18-26 millim. 



Alu. 



