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incurved, sinuous and defined by blacjiish on outer side ; a black 

 point on termen ; cilia white with a black patch at middle. Hind 

 wing white ; a curved red-brown antemedial line, diffused on outer 

 side below costa where there is an oblique red-brown striga beyond 

 it and a black spot beyond it on inner margin ; postmedial line 

 blackish with a blue-black band irrorated with some white scales 

 and with rather dentate outer edge on its outer side from costa to 

 vein 2, the line bent outwards below costa; terminal area suffused 

 with yellow ; the underside white, the costa tinged with yellow at 

 base and the terminal area from apex to vein 2, a brown medial 

 line, the postmedial band black, ending at vein 2. 



2 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and wings more strongly suffused 

 with rufous. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 3 J , 2 5 • E.vp. c? 16-20, 

 2 26 millim. 



5305. Holocryptis erubescens. 



Troctoptera eruhescens, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 99, pi. 157. f. 16 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 344. 



cf . Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing creamy 

 white tinged with pinkish except on apical area ; a subbasal black 

 point on inner margin ; traces of a waved rufous antemedial line ; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; an oblique pale red shade from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; an oblique pale red shade from 

 middle of costa to termen at vein 4 ; subtermiiial line very indis- 

 tinct, double, reddish from costa to discal fold where there is a 

 whitish spot with minute black lunule on it on its inner side, with 

 minute brown lunules below veins 4 and 3, then incurved, with 

 black spot below vein 2 and patch at inner margin ; a series of 

 brown points on termen. Hind wing Avhite ; a blood-red patch 

 from middle of costa to lower angle of cell with rather X-shaped 

 white mark on it defined by black scales and with a faint red shade 

 from it to inner margin where there is a black striga on its outer 

 edge ; a triangular yellowish white patch on costa beyond middle, 

 its outer edge defined by the much interrupted red-brown post- 

 medial line, a rufous shade from costa towards apex to termen at 

 vein 2 : the underside white, a brown subterminal band from costa 

 to vein 2, expanding on inner side below vein 6. 



Hab, Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 cJ type. Exp. 20 millim. . 



5306. Holocryptis permaculata, n. sp. (Plate CLV. fig. 3.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with brown, 

 the last with blackish dorsal band on basal segment and subdorsal 

 spots. Fore wing white tinged with rufous except on inner area to 

 beyond middle ; a diffused blackish brown subbasal band from cell to 

 inner margin ; antemedial line slight, dark with diffused blackish 

 brown band on its outer edge, from below costa to inner margin, 

 incurved at vein 1 ; a blackish point in middle of cell and triangular 



