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radial emitted from the posterior angle of the cell and close 

 to the second and third median branches, which are emitted 

 from a well-defined footstalk ; submedian and internal veins 

 converging at their distal extremities. 



Body moderately robust ; the abdomen barely extending 

 beyond the anal angle of secondaries in length ; palpi long, 

 compressed and obliquely porrected; the second and third 

 articles being nearly in line, the second expanding from the 

 base forwards, its inferior fringe extending forwards below 

 the third article, which is small and subcuneiform ; antennas 

 delicate and finely ciliated ; legs rather long, the tibia? termi- 

 nating in tufted expansions, those of the third pair of legs 

 with a similar expansion in front of the first pair of spurs ; 

 base of ventral surface of abdomen hollowed and grooved, 

 the surface in front of the excavation being unusually protu- 

 berant. 



Type H. sigillata. 



Hollandia sigillata, sp. n. 



Primaries above with the basal two fifths whitish buff, 

 faintly suffused with lilacine greyish, sparsely dotted with 

 blackish scales, with one or two leaden-grey markings indi- 

 cating an obsolete line beyond its centre, terminated by an 

 irregularly zigzag blackish line which interrupts a pearly 

 blackish-margined < -shaped " reniform stigma," the angle 

 of which is filled by a blackish-edged tawny spot ; two black 

 discoidal dots, one near the base and the other just beyond 

 the middle of the cell ; external area olive-grey, slightly 

 greenish on costal area and otherwise slightly tinted with 

 lilac ; an imperfect oblique, zigzag, bronze-greyish stripe from 

 costal third to just beyond the middle of internal margin; a 

 submarginal cupreous-brown macular stripe commencing with 

 lunate markings which gradually change into oval spots j a 

 black dot within the second lunule and a second near external 

 angle, where the stripe has almost disappeared ; external 

 area and fringe slightly cupreous : secondaries whitish, tinted 

 with pale buff, which in certain lights is shot with pink ; 

 outer two thirds of abdominal area pale greyish buff, black- 

 speckled, traversed by four grey stripes and bounded internally 

 by a streak of pearl- grey spreading along the outer margin ; 

 a large pyriform, sericeous, golden tawny patch enclosing a 

 diffused oval blackish spot on its inner edge : body pale 

 buffish white, the head and tegulas pale buff, speckled with 

 blackish ; collar purplish grey ; palpi brownish. Wings 

 ueiow paler than above, more densely speckled with black : 



