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(192)tPYEAUSTA PH^OPHCENICA, n. Sp. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, mixed with ochreous and 

 dark purple-red scales ; abdomen suffused with red on dorsum and 

 with pale segmental lines. Fore \\iag dark purple-red, irrorated 

 with yellow and greyish scales ; indistinct waved subbasal and 

 antemedial yellow lines ; a yellow spot in end o£ cell ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2 ; a 

 subterminal line represented by marks below apex and above tornus. 

 Hind wing black-brown, with yellow spot below middle of cell ; a 

 postmedial baud between veins 5 and 2 ; subtermiual spots below 

 veins 6 and 2, and a spot on inner margin above tornus. Under- 

 side with much moi'e developed greyish-yellow markings. 



Mab. Brazil, Castro Parana (Jones), Exp. 14 mm. 



(193)*Pykatjsta latinigkalis, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax black ; palpi orange below ; vertex of head 

 with some orange scales ; legs orange, fore legs with black on 

 femora and tibia3 ; abdomen orange, with slight lateral segmental 

 black marks and some black on terminal segment. Fore wing 

 black, w ith orange antemedial band expanding at middle ; a spot 

 in end of cell ; the postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted to angle of cell, detined by an orange band from 

 costa to vein 5, a line from vein 5 to 3, and an orange patch below 

 cell ; cilia orange at apex and tornus. Hiud wing orange ; an 

 oblique antemedial black line ; the postmedial line bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, then obhq[ue to tornus ; the terminal area 

 black with sinuous inner edge, wide at costa and narrowing to 

 tornus. 



Hab. Niger, Warri {Eoili). Exp. 20 mm. Type in Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



(194) Pyeausta niepoldalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1868, p. 46, 



pi. 8. f. 6. Silesia. 



(195) Pyeatjsta teimaculalis Stgr. S. E. Z. 1867, p. 109. 



Greece ; Armenia. 



(19oa)tPYRAUSTA teteaplagalis, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 25.) 



6 . Head orange, antennae and tufts above eyes blackish ; thorax 

 orauge, with two black sti-ipes ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series 

 of blackish marks. Fore wing black, with orange subbasal band ; 

 a medial triangular spot on costa ; a round patch on inner area just 

 beyond middle ; an elliptical subterminal patch extending from 

 costa to vein 2. Hiud wing black, the basal area orange ; a broad 

 postmedial band narrowing somewhat on inner area. 



Uab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall). Exp. 16 mm. 



(196) Pyeausta siKKiMA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 207. 



Himalayas ; Andamans. 

 t „ tnaculuta Butl. HI. Hat. vii. p. 93, pi. 134. f. 16. 



