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pressed triangular blackish dots followed by a slender whitish 

 line. Primaries without basal markings : body whitish, with 

 the legs greyish. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



107. Egnasia opalina, n. sp. (no. 895). 



Primaries strongly angulated ; pearly grey, with brownish 

 costal margin and fringe; two diverging transverse central 

 orange-margined ferruginous lines : secondaries pale brown ; 

 a dusky marginal line, followed by a whitish line at the base 

 of the fringe : body pale brown. Under surface sericeous 

 whity brown : primaries with faint traces of a darker trans- 

 verse discal line. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Pyralidse. 

 Deana (Adena, Wlk., nee Hadena, Gue'n.). 



108. Deana sericea, n. sp. (no. 1042). 



Sericeous greyish brown ; a slightly darker discal angu- 

 lated line, partly bordered outwardly with whitish ; fringe 

 cream-coloured, traversed near the base by a black line, white 

 at the anal angles, and with a black patch at the angulation 

 of the outer margins : primaries with the costal border cream- 

 coloured beyond the middle ; a pale-bordered dusky line across 

 the basal fourth ; a large white spot immediately beyond the 

 discocellulars, which are blackish and <-shaped : secondaries 

 with a pale spot beyond the discocellulars : frons silvery white, 

 palpi blackish, antennae testaceous. Wings below paler and 

 more sericeous, the discal line well defined, with better-marked 

 whitish border ; the spots beyond the cells white on all the 

 wings ; the primaries without basal transverse line ; body 

 below silvery white. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Walker refers his genus to the Grambites, remarking at the 

 same time that it hardly belongs to that group. His type 

 (A. xanthialis) is identical with a species doubtfully referred 

 by him to the genus Scopula under the name of S. ? hybrea- 

 salis. 



109. Py ralis valida, n. sp. (no. 938). 



Greyish brown, with a slight cupreous reflection ; wings 

 crossed by two stramineous lines, those of primaries much wider 

 apart and more angular than those of secondaries, fringe 

 bright stramineous black at base : primaries with the apical 

 two thirds of the fringe tipped with black ; centre of costal 

 margin spotted with yellow, apical portion blackish; a blackish 

 dot at the end of the cell. Wings below shining, the inner 



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