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enclosed between these spots is greyish brown, and the spots 

 themselves are indicated by a dark brown outline ; an indis- 

 tinct zigzag discal line, beyond which the ground-colour is 

 paler ; a dark brown line edged with whitish, straight almost 

 to the costa, and then slightly irregular, limiting the external 

 area ; a marginal series of black dots : secondaries with the 

 discocellular spot and an oblique anal streak dusky ; an in- 

 complete series of blackish marginal dots : abdomen tinted 

 with gravel-yellow. Wings below whitish, sericeous, irrorated 

 with grey ; primaries suffused with grey ; secondaries with a 

 black discocellular spot : body below testaceous. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



38. Eupsilia strigifera^ n. sp. (no. 726). 



Pale rusty brown : primaries crossed by three slightly curved 

 parallel and nearly equidistant white lines, the two inner ones 

 being rather nearer together than the second to the third, a 

 fourth yellowish line with the usual subcostal elbow limiting 

 the external border, a blackish dot at each corner of the dis- 

 coidal cell, but the ordinary discoidal spots obsolete ; secon- 

 daries shining whity brown, with diffused grey border and 

 reddish fringe : body with the thorax rather deeper in colour 

 than the abdomen. Under surface altogether pale whity brown, 

 with a rosy tinge ; wings sericeous, with traces of two parallel 

 pale-edged dusky lines ; costal borders slightly irrorated with 

 blackish scales ; fringe of primaries red-brown ; anterior coxa3 

 and palpi also red-brown, but not much darker than the rest 

 of the body. Expanse of the wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



39. Dasycampa evelina, n. sp. (no. 725). 



Primaries pale gravel-brown, with a rosy tint over them ; 

 all markings very indistinct, and almost all with slightly 

 paler margins ; the first line at basal third, the second from 

 reniform spot to inner margin, the third irregularly undulated 

 and crossing the disk, the fourth submarginal and interrupted 

 throughout by a series of black dots ; a marginal series of 

 brown lunules ; fringe greyish ; discoidal spots indicated by 

 yellowish outlines : secondaries grey, with dark diffused outer 

 border and pale rosy fringe, traversed by a grey line : body 

 rosy, the abdomen greyish. Under surface shining rosy 

 whitish : the primaries, with the exception of the costal 

 margin, apical and external areas, suffused with grey; two 

 dusky dots on the discocellulars, two parallel sinuous discal 

 lines and the external edge of the fringe dark grey : secon- 

 daries with a black discocellular lunule; a trisinuated, slender, 



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