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30. S. coRNUCALis, sp. n. (Plate III.) 



Head, palpi, antennte, legs, and thorax i-ufovis buff. Fore wing 

 buff with darker and lighter lines and dots ; on the costa a dark 

 mark at base and another at one-third length of wing, smaller 

 dots at one half and two-thirds, a cloud at the tip ; a wavy 

 subterminal line dark edged with lighter ; a dark dot on inner 

 margin near body. Hind wing buff, with a dark wavy line edged 

 with lighter and dark central spot ; fringes buff spotted with 

 darker. 



Exp. 22 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa. 



31. S. suBViRiDALis, sp. n. (Plate III.) 



Head, legs, thorax, abdomen, palpi, and the long processes 

 which extend to the back of the thorax, buff. Fore wing dull 

 brown, with two transvei'se pale greenish bands parallel to hind 

 margin, the first at one-half and the second at two-thirds length 

 of wing ; below the cell these bands run into a lai-ge patch of the 

 same colour which continues along two-thirds of inner margin 

 and projects a little beyond the second transverse band. Hind 

 wing dull brown ; fiinges same colour. 



Exp. 28 mm. 



Hob. Kebea, Dinawa, Babouni. 



32. Orthaga vitialis Wlk. 



33. 0. POLYCHROALis, sp. n. (Plate III.) 



Head, antennae, legs and thorax chestnut inclining to pink ; 

 abdomen rather paler, with no band on second segment. Fore wing 

 greenish with chestnut patches ; basal blotch mingled olive and 

 chestnut, with raised scales in longitudinal dark line, then a vertical 

 line edged outwardly with white ; the band is badly defined but 

 there is an angulated thin line forming the external boundary ; 

 the remainder of the wing is greenish white, with a chestnut 

 apical patch. Hind wing pale buff. Fringes of both wings pale ; 

 underside of costa of both wings broadly i-ed. 



Exp. 30 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa. 



34. O. CHioNALis, sp. n. (Plate III.) 



Palpi simple in both sexes, reaching vertex of head ; antennae of 

 male ciliated and with a process consisting of an immense tuft of 

 scales reaching over part of thorax ; in the female this is very 

 small. 



Head, palpi, antennae, and legs pinkish buff, legs ringed with paler 

 at the joints ; thorax, patagia, and process greenish ; abdomen 

 greyish ochreous. Fore w4ng : ground-colour dark olive-brown, 

 basal patch w^ith raised scales both light and dark followed by an 

 oblique nai-row white band, then follows the main band, in some 



