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angle, but termiuatiug before it ; apex white. Underside of fore wing with a broad dark baud 

 across the wing at end of cell, the area on each side of it whitish. 



There is a closely-allied undescribed species from Natal in coll. B.M., which has no band 

 and spot at end of cell of hind wing. 



Erygia reflectifascia. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 18.) 



Expanse I5 inch. 



Male. Fore wing cinnamon-brown, with numerous darker scales and strigse ; a narrow 

 black waved antemedial band ; a short medial one from costa to subcostal nervure ; a post- 

 medial band, waved to below first median nervule, then bent upwards and back to median 

 nervure, and waved down to inner margin ; an indistinct lunulate submarginal band. Hind 

 wing ochreous white ; outer area smoky. Both wings with lunulate autecilial line. Under- 

 side ochreous white, slightly irrorated with black : fore wing — outer area smoky ; a series of 

 black antecilial specks : hind wing with antecilial lunulate line, the points produced as black 

 cilia; a black streak at anal angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen cinnamon-brown, paler 

 below ; tibife and tarsi tinged with black. 



A broken and rubbed female has the ground-colour of fore wing very pale, with large 

 diffused dark blotches. 



The postmedial band bent more back towards the base than in E. apicalis. 



PILOSOCRURES, gen. nov. 



Male. Antennae ciliated : palpi erect; terminal joint long and naked. Tibiae clothed 

 with hairs, which in the fore legs are very thick and long, the ones nearest the tarsus curled 

 round. Fore wing broad and rather short; costa highly arched towards the ajjex ; outer 

 margin arched evenly ; inner margin strongly hooked two thirds from Ijase. 



Allied to Batracharta, Walk, (in Mus. Oxon.), which is without the long hairs on tibia 

 of hind legs. 



Pilosocrures variegata. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 20.) 



Expanse Ij inch. 



Male. Fore wing : area from one third from apex on costa to near the base on inner 

 margin slaty blue variegated with grey, black, brown, and madder tints, the most distinct of 

 these markings being some black strigae on the costa ; two square brown spots, one in the cell, 

 one just beyond it, and some pink on median vein ; the ai'ea outside this slaty-blue area is 

 pinkish variegated with olive-browns and greens, and some black specks near the outer angle 

 and along first median nervule, the most prominent markings being two olive-green diffused 

 patches, one subapical, the other in the centre of the outer area; two patches of slaty blue on 



