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very minutely mottled with black, with a slight incomplete white 

 middle band, and with a brownish cinereous apical spot, along 

 which the costa is black ; a slight oblique black mark on the hind 

 border. Hind wings blackish vitreous. Length of the body 3 

 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



V £* Bythoscopus repletus. 



Testaceus, nigro dense conspersus ; caput linea transversa pallide 

 testacea, fascia anteriore nigra ; abdomen supra nigrum, seg- 

 mentis testaceo marginatis ; pedes testacei, uigro vittati ; alee 

 antica- maculis duabus oblongis discalibus vitreis ; postica 

 cinereo-vitrecB, apice margineque postico fusee scentibus. 



Testaceous, thickly speckled with black. Head black across 

 the front adjoining the vertex, where there is a pale testaceous 

 transverse line. Abdomen black above ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments testaceous. Legs testaceous, striped with black. Fore 

 wings thickly mottled with black ; two oblong vitreous spots 

 in the disk, the interior one much larger than the exterior one. 

 Hind wings grayish vitreous, brownish towards the tips and along 

 the hind border. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



a. Melbourne. From Mr. Edwards' collection. 



Bythoscopus obliquus. 



Pallide testaceus; scutellum guttis tribus anticis unaque postica 

 nigricantibus ; alee vitrece, venis pallidis. 



Pale testaceous. Scutellum with three blackish dots in front 

 and one hindward. Wings vitreous ; veins pale. Length of the 

 body 2\ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Tasmania. Presented by the Rev. T. Ewing. 



C Bythoscopus absconders. 



Pallide testaceus ; vertex brevissimus ; scutellum guttis quatuor 

 anticis pallide fuscis ; ala vitrece ; anticee sublimpidce, venis 

 pallide testaceis. 



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