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PHOF. E. B. POULTON OX 



BOSTRA VARIANS Butl. 



1908: Sept. 13,-1 $ ; Sept. 16—3 5 ; Sept. 19—1 $. 

 1909 : Mar. 26, 1 2 ; Apr. 8—2 $ ; Apr. 10—2 $ ; Apr. 14, 

 — 1 $ ; Apr. 20,-1 $ . 



BoSTRA TENEBRALIS Hmpsil. 



1908: Sept. 14,-1 j; Sept. 15,-1 S ; Sept. 19,-1 J. 



BoSTRA PYROCHROALIS, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 43, § .) 



$ . Head, tegulae, and abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 thorax fiery red. Fore wing fiery red slightly irrorated with 

 whitish, the costal edge with some dark scales towards base and 

 alternating whitish and dark brown points on medial area ; ante- 

 migclial line white, slightly excurved below costa, then inwardly 

 obliqne ; postmedial line white, slightly excurved to vein 4, then 

 slightly incurved ; cilia purple-brown at base, the tips white with 

 some red at apex. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown; the 

 cilia purple-brown at base, white at tips. 



1909: Mar. 24,-1 § (type). Exj). 16 millim. 



Dattima perstrigata, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 40, j'.) 



Antennfe of male bipectinate, with long branches to near apex. 

 (S . Head and thorax ci-eamy white more or less tinged with 

 brown ; antennfe with the branches brown : palpi irrorated with 

 blackish ; abdomen creamy white with dorsal fulvous-yellow 

 bands except at base and extremity, the anal tuft with pale 

 blood-red subdorsal streaks. Fore wing with diffused blackish 

 streaks below end of cell, above and below submedian fold and 

 vein 1 to beyond middle, and on each side of veins 5 to 2 ; a small 

 black spot in lower angle of cell and slight point in upper angle ; 

 the streaks partly interrupted by traces of a subterminal white 

 line with blackish points before it on veins 7, 6 ; the costal half 

 of wing sometimes irrorated with blackish ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia chequered with pale blood-red. Hind wing 

 pure white and somewhat semihyaline. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the streaks on each side of vein 1 and 

 veins 5 to 2 beyond the cell with pale blood-red mixed, veins 7, 6 

 with pale blood-red streaks except on terminal area. 



$ . Thorax strongly tinged with pale blood-red, the foi'e and 

 mid tibia? and tarsi suffused with blood-red, abdomen at sides and 

 anal tuft blood-red ; fore wing with the costa and cilia blood-red, 

 diffused blood-red fascise above and below vein 1, the streaks on 

 veins 7, 6 and on each side of veins 5 to 2 blood-red ; an indistinct 

 obliquely curved waved subterminal blood-red line between veins 

 7 and 1 ; hind wing suftused with brown, the veins tovvar<ls termen 

 and cilia suffused with blood-red ; underside suffused with brown, 

 the costal areas, veins towards termen, and cilia of both wings 

 blood-red. 



1908 : July 1,-1 J ; July 8,-1 c^ ; July 19,-1 S ; July 24, 

 — 1 c?; Aug. 24,-1 $: Aug. 27,— 1 J (B.M.); Aug. 28,— 1 J; 



