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OPHIDERINAE. 



9. Nagia dentiscripta sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 9). 



? , 58 mm. 



Head and palpus whitish mixed with black, the vertex of head with 

 some tawny scales ; antennal shaft blackish with some white at base ; 

 thorax above with a mixture of pale brown, black and metallic violet 

 scales ; abdomen above pale fuscous with some rough brown hair ; 

 abdomen beneath, pectus and legs pale brown, the tarsi broadly banded 

 with black above, the fore tibia with some black scales. 



Fore wing whitish, the basal inner area, the medial area and the 

 termen except at costa thickly irrorated with brown and with some 

 black scales especially near hind margin ; some metallic scales near 

 base ; a blackish costal patch proximally to the subterminal line, 

 shaped much as in N. linteola Gn., but blacker ; the lines blackish, 

 dentate, (the postmedial distally pale-edged) ; subterminal pale, with 

 dark suffusion on each side ; orbicular a slight brown point, reniform 

 almost obsolete. Subbasal line excurved from costa to SC, then 

 obsolete ; two diffused dark blotches on costa, the second at about 

 two-sevenths costa, marking the origin of the antemedial line, which 

 is waved, nearly vertical to M, strongly angled out at fold and slightly 

 excurved before hind margin ; a dentate, vertical medial line from 

 two-fifths costa, with a slight, diffused line distally to it ; some slight 

 brown marks in place of the reniform ; postmedial line dentate, from 

 costa at about three-fifths, outwardly oblique to E 3 , where and at M 1 

 it is strongly dentate, inwardly oblique to SC 2 and bent outward to 

 hind margin at two-thirds ; subterminal line angled out behind SC 5 

 (at the end of the black patch) and excurved near middle ; some 

 black spots between the veins near termen and at the veins on 

 termen ; some slight dark streaks across termen ; fringe chequered, 

 with a pale line at base. 



Hind -wing fuscous with a narrow white medial band, a white 

 subterminal line from just before M 1 to fold, and the termen and 

 fringe white from apex to just behind R 1 ; fringe otherwise fuscous 

 with a fine pale line at base ; some black shading at termen. 



Underside of both wings predominantly fuscous, with paler shades 

 here and there, especially on hind margin of both wings, at costa and 

 termen of fore wing and apex of hind wing ; both wings with inter- 

 neural black dots near termen ; fringes much as above but with a 

 broader pale line at base ; slight traces of discal spots (especially on 



