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broad, the second and third narrow and near together, the fourth 

 narrow and close to the fifth, which is broad and completely girdles 

 the abdomen. Fore wings black with bluish sheen ; hyaline spots 

 nine in number, placed as follows : one subbasal, almost round ; three 

 median, the central one small ; five postmedial, the central one 

 minute. Hind wings black with bluish sheen ; two hyaline spots 

 each traversed by a black vein, that nearest base tinged with orange 

 on the dorsal area. Under side agrees with the upper side, but the 

 dorsum is more orange. 



Expanse, 48 miUim. 



Collection number, 1867. 



One female specimen from Karapin (3000 ft.), June, 1908. 



Comes nearest to A. dichotoma, Leech. 



NOCTUID^. 



Metamene hampsoni, sp. n. 



(?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown. Fore wings pale 

 brown ; antemedial and postmedial lines indicated by series of black 

 dots, the first inwardly oblique and the second strongly excurved ; 

 discoidal dot black ; costa beyond postmedial line whitish dotted with 

 black ; fringes whitish dotted with black at apex, middle, and tornus, 

 and preceded by a series of smaller black dots. Hind wings fuscous, 

 dorsal area paler, a black dot at tornus ; terminal dots black, fringes 

 pale brown. Under side fuscous ; fore wings without transverse 

 series of black dots ; hind wings with black discoidal dot and curved 

 line beyond. 



Expanse, ^, 20 milHm. ; $ , 28 milhm. 



Collection number, 679. 



A male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), April 16tb, 1906 ; 

 and a female from Arizan (7300 ft.), August 18th, 1908. 



Parallelia takaoensis, sp. n. 



5 . Head brownish, thorax brownish shghtly mixed with grey, 

 abdomen brownish grey. Fore wings pale grey, violet tinged, clouded 

 with brownish grey ; subbasal Hne blackish, outwardly pale edged, 

 not extending below median nervule ; antemedial line blackish, 

 shghtly oblique; postmedial line blackish, outwardly oblique from 

 costa to vein 7 where it is sharply angled, thence shghtly incurved 

 to dorsum, broadly shaded on each side with brown ; subterminal 

 line pale, bluntly serrate, on apical area somewhat obscured by a 

 short black indented hne from apex. Hind wings fuscous grey, 

 traces of pale medial and postmedial hues. Under side grey suffused 

 with fuscous, except on termen of all the wings ; a dusky, almost 

 straight, medial line and a pale subterminal line on fore wings ; a 

 dusky discoidal dot and two curved and wavy lines beyond, also a 

 pale wavy subterminal line on hind wings. 



Expanse, 42 millim. 



Collection number, 167 a. 



A female specimen from Takao, August 22nd, 1904. 



