100 HERMINIID^. 



a reddish tinge ; some irregular black subbasal marks ; a small black spot in the middle of 

 the cell ; an inwardly-oblique medial black band, a postmedial waved one ; a submarginal 

 ■whitish hmulate band, broken at the diseoidal nervules, with a black spot on inside of the 

 subapical lunulc ; two black specks at end of cell ; black specks on costa at origin of post- 

 medial and submarginal bands; a series of black antecilial specks. Hind wing with indistinct, 

 dark subbasal band ; black speck at middle of cell ; medial, nearly straight baud, and post- 

 medial pale lunulate one, the lunules filled in with black ; a series of antecilial black specks. 

 Underside paler, with bands less distinct : fore wing with a subbasal black spot below the 

 costa, and a very conspicuous black subapical one : hind wing with a conspicuous black 

 lunule at centre of cell. 



Female with tlie medial black band more erect. 



HermiEia ruptistigma. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 20.) 



Expanse I5 inch. 



Male. Fore wing brown, with a purple gloss ; a narrow pale brown antemedial band, 

 angled below the costa ; a small black spot in the middle of the cell, a very indistinct fuscous 

 difi'used medial band ; an indistinct stigma at the end of the cell, with a broken black outline 

 on its inner side ; a pale brown postmedial baud, angled below the diseoidal nervules, and 

 with a smoky -black patch in the outer angle; an indistinct fuscous waved submarginal band; 

 a smoky-black apical patch ; a series of black antecilial specks. Hind wing fuscous, with very 

 indistinct medial and postmedial dark bands, which are better marked on the underside. 



Allied to H. hadenulis. 



Byturna rufifascia. (Plate CXLYIII. fig. G.) 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Male. Fore wing pale olive-brown, with a few red strigse in and below the cell ; a blood- 

 red diffviscd band from the costa near the apex to centre of inner margin ; a waved submar- 

 ginal band, least distinct near costa, blood-red and diffused to outer margin. Hind wing 

 fuscous. Underside : fore wing fuscous, with the apex red : hind wing ochreous white, the 

 costal half of the vfing sufl'used with red. 



Female. Fore wing with the red colour diffused over the whole wing ; the bands much less 

 distinct : cilia of both wings pink, not fuscous as in male. 



The colour and oblique baud on fore wing distinguish this species from B. digramma. 



Avitta luna. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 21.) 

 Expanse 1^ inch. 

 Mule. Fore wing olive-green, slightly suffused with red ; barely traceable waved red 



