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costal border is swollen out into a bladder-like excrescence, 

 the costal vein (so far as can be seen without actually destroy- 



Neuration of (1) Alipsa and (2) Paralip&a. 



ing the specimen) appears to spring from near the base of the 

 subcostal, and both of these veins almost immediately pass 

 under a long depressed mass of hair-scales, from which they 

 emerge just about the centre of the wing, the costal vein 

 passing obliquely upwards to the margin, and the subcostal 

 throwing off the first of its five branches parallel to it ; paral- 

 lel to and below the subcostal is an arched vein, from which 

 both the radials are emitted; the discocellulars are absent; 

 and the median vein, which is normal in structure^ curves 

 slightly upwards towards the radials ; the false vein below the 

 median curves slightly downwards at its extremity ; the sub- 

 median is decidedly shorter than in Alipsa: the principal 

 difference in the secondaries is that the second and third 

 median branches are unusually short, little more than half the 

 length of those in Alipsa : the palpi are unfortunately absent ; 

 but in other respects the body is similar. Type P. modesta. 



118. Paralipsa modesta, n. sp. (no. 1170). 



Coloration of A lipsa angustella: primaries above lilac-grey, 

 speckled with black, and with a central forked pale ferrugi- 

 nous streak, a minute black subbasal dash, and a rounded 

 black subcostal spot at apical third : secondaries sericeous 

 white, with diffused dusky outer border, most distinct at apex : 

 thorax lilacinegrey; abdomen testaceous, with a pearly lustre. 

 Under surface sordid white, the primaries with dusky external 

 fourth. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



Crambidae. 



119. Crambus sabidvnus, n. sp. (no. 1110). 



Primaries red-brown, with a lilac reflection ; costal border 

 white ; a band of clay-colour across the basal third, its inner 



