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with black, the 3i-d joint black, white at tips ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore 

 and mid tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen greyish tinged 

 with brown and with slight black segmental lines. Fore wing pale 

 greyish tinged with rufous, the basal area suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, dark, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, inwardly oblique and sinuous below the cell ; two indis- 

 tinct oblique waved medial lines ; reniform a small lunule defined 

 by diffused blackish ; postmedial line black, indistinctly double 

 towards costa, excurved below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, 

 excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a wedge-shaped patch 

 of brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with some whitish points 

 on costa ; subterminal line strong, black, incurved on costal area, 

 excurved at vein 4, then oblique, sinuous and closely approximated 

 to the postmedial line, a rather diffused whitish line beyond it ; a 

 fine crenulate dark terminal line. Hind wing pale greyish suffused 

 with red-brown, the basal area slightly irrorated with black, the 

 terminal area striated with brown ; three indistinct sinuous brown 

 lines beyond the cell faintly defined on outer side by whitish ; 

 postmedial line double, black, sinuous, the outer line strong and 

 rather diffused on inner side, somewhat incmwed between discal and 

 submedian folds where there is a band of white suffusion beyond it ; 

 a slight crenulate dark terminal line ; the underside whitish slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, traces of a sinuous 

 medial line, a dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and 

 indistinct sinuous subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Center (Grofe), 2 c? , 3 $, Illinois, 

 Centr. States. Sxj). 42-46 millim. 



8038. Zale australis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 13.) 



5 . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some grey ; 

 pectus whitish mixed with brown ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown and irrorated with blackish, the 

 ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey 

 largely suffused with dark brown and irrorated with blackish ; 

 subbasal line black, slightly angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 diffused on outer side, obliquely curved ; the medial area with three 

 oblic[ue rather diffused blackish lines ; reniform defined on inner 

 side by blackish, its lower part with obscure whitish annukis, narrow, 

 produced at upper extremity ; postmedial line black, rather diffused, 

 oblique to below vein 7, then incurved, angled outwards at vein 4, 

 then incurved and slightly siniious, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line blackish, sinuous towards costa, incm-ved at 

 discal fold, angled outwards below vein 4, then again incurved, a 

 diffused whitish band beyond it with some rufous at middle, the 

 whitish extending to before the siibterminal line on inner half ; a 

 series of black stride defined on outer side bv whitish before termen. 



