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terminal area rather browner ; subbasal line black, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then slightly sinuous ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by an oblique black bar on inner side touching the 

 antemedial line, with two points beyond it ; reniform a black lunule 

 slightly defined by whitish and with two black points on its inner 

 side ; a faint dark medial line oblique from costa to reniform, then 

 erect ; postmedial line very indistinct, with small black spot at costa 

 and slightly defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line prominent, whitish, excurved at vein 7 

 and slightly incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of minute 

 black points ; cilia with white line at base. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and marginal areas tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 

 point ; cilia white with a slight brown line through them ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal point, postmedial series of points on the 

 veins, and terminal series of points from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Madras, Gooty {Camphdl), 1 c? , Nilgiris {Hampton), 1 J, 

 2 $ type. Exjp. 30 millim. 



3991. Athetis meralis. (Plate CXXX. fig. 22.) 



Caradrina meralis, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 215 (1875) ; Sinitli, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 195. 

 Carairina bilunata, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 199 (1877). 



5 . Head and thorax pale brown tinged with rufous and 

 mixed with whitish ; palpi black at sides, the tips whitish ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale reddish brown. 

 Pore wing grey tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with 

 black; subbasal line black defined by greyish on outer side, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 with grey, oblique, minutely and irregularly sinuous ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a small black lunule ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, oblique below vein 4 ; traces of a minutely waved 

 subterminal line ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wino- 

 white, the veins and marginal areas slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule and traces of postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (CocMe), 1 5; U.S.A. 

 N. & E. States, Maine, Massachusetts, Magnolia (Thaxier), 2 $ type 

 hiliinata, JSTew Mexico. Ex/>. 34 millim. 



3992. Athetis melanopis, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 23.) 



(^ . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grev ; 

 pectus and legs paler ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. PoVe 



