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9. Telesto compaciaj sp. n. (95). 



Allied to T. Douhledayi [T. dirpliia^ Hew.). Primaries 

 above darker, but with the same pattern, excepting that the 

 fringe is clay-coloured spotted with black : secondaries dark 

 purplish brown, clothed towards the base with greenish hairs, 

 and crossed in the middle by an abbreviated series of four 

 yellowish-white hyaline spots ; four smaller spots are placed 

 nearer the base, two in the cell, and two on the first subcostal 

 interspace ; fringe clay-coloured : body densely clothed with 

 green hairs. Wings below reddish clay-coloured ; hyaline 

 spots nearly as above, but rather more numerous in a])pear- 

 ance, some sericeous white spots being added : primaries with 

 the margins of the c-shaped discoidal marking and a broad 

 patch crossing the median interspaces black ; internal area 

 grey ; fringes as above : body below greenish white ; tarsi 

 clay-coloured. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 



xi male. 

 A male. 



10. Taractrocera papyritty Boisd. (4). 



Heterocera. 



Zygaenidse. 

 11. Procris dolens^ Walk. (314). 

 A worn male. 



Lithosiidse. 

 12. Deiopeia pidchella, Linn., var. lotnx^ Cramer. 

 One poor specimen of this variety. 



13. Termessa IcBta, AValk. 

 A broken example. 



Liparidae. 

 14. Portliesia melanosoma, sp. n. (357). 

 Snow-white; antennae with greyish-brown pectinations; 

 abdomen black, with snow-white anal tuft ; anterior femora 

 blackish above; anterior tibise above ochreous : primaries 

 below with the base of costal border blackish. Expanse of 

 wings 32 millim. 

 A male. 



