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scales indicating traces of transverse lines : body pale sap- 

 green, abdomen black-spotted. Under surface shining white ; 

 primaries with a few indications of the commencement of lines 

 upon the costa : secondaries crossed by two slender grey lines, 

 indicating the central belt. Expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Seems allied to E. sophia (111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 51, 

 pi. liii. fig. 9). 



85. Lobophora misera, n. sp. (no. 563). 



Wings smoky brown, tinted with pink : primaries with 

 greenish costal and internal areas; darker than the secondaries 

 and crossed by numerous black and brown lines, the inter- 

 spaces between some of which are filled with brown darker 

 than the ground-colour, so as to form a well-defined central 

 band ; a subbasal angulated stripe, and one or two abbreviated 

 bands and spots at apex ; indications of a zigzag white sub- 

 marginal line ; a marginal series of black dots in pairs ; 

 fringe dark brown ; a black discocellular litura : secondaries 

 with dusky marginal line : body blackish, irrorated with grey. 

 Under surface of wings pale reddish brown, with traces of the 

 bands of the upper surface. Primaries with whitish internal 

 area : body white, with blackish sides ; legs banded with 

 black. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



86. Melanippe abraxina, n. sp. (no. 533). 



Wings snow-white, with a broad and slightly irregular dark 

 greyish-brown outer border, traversed through the centre by a 

 dentate-sinuate white stripe, and interrupted on second median 

 interspaces by a marginal white spot ; a black marginal line ; 

 fringe spotted with dark greyish brown. Primaries with a 

 yellow-edged blackish spot close to the base, followed imme- 

 diately by two angulated dark brown stripes ; a very irregular 

 constricted central band enclosing a black discocellular spot : 

 secondaries greyish at base : body ochreous, covered with 

 black spots ; antenna 3 dark brown. Wings below with paler 

 and more confused markings : body whitish, not spotted ; ab- 

 domen transversely banded with black; legs externally black, 

 banded with yellow, internally white and yellow. Expanse 

 of wincrs 1 inch 6 lines. 



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87. Larentia comis, n. sp. (no. 528). 



Greyish whity brown : primaries with the basal fourth 

 dark brown, limited externally by a zigzag oblique white 

 line ; a broad angulated central dark brown belt, limited on 

 both sides by zigzag white lines, and enclosing a black disco- 



