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slight, dark, somewhat incurved at discal fold where there is a 

 small black spot before it, incurved below vein 3 and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; some slight dark irroration on terminal area ; a terminal 

 series of slight black stria) ; cilia rufous, white at apex and below 

 middle. Hind wing white ; a rufous patch from costa at end of cell 

 with the blackish discoidal bar on its outer edge, sometimes reduced 

 to rufous or blackish points ; postmedial line represented by a rufous 

 bar from costa and black striga at inner margin with some rufous 

 irroration before it ; a subtermiual black spot on costa with diffused 

 brownish band from below it to vein '3 ; the apex with slight dark 

 irroration; cilia faintl}^ tinged with brown from apex to vein 2; 

 the underside white with terminal brown band from apex to vein 

 2, forking at apex. 



Hab. Sierra Leone ( Clements, Dudgeon)^ 2 c? j 2 5 f 3'P6 '■> 

 S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Sampson), 1 cJ ; Br. E. Africa, Mombasa 

 {Jackson), 1 ^ • Exp. 12-16 millim. 



5309. Holocryptis atrifusa, n. sp, (Plate CLV. fig. 6.) 



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

 Fore wing white sutlused in parts with pale brown and irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; a subbasal black point on costa and diffused 

 oblique pale brownish band from cell to inner margin ; an ante- 

 medial black point on costa and faint oblique line from beyond it to 

 inner margin ; a black point in cell towards lower extremity ; an 

 oblique pale brownish band from costa to vein 3, in and beyond the 

 cell to near subtermiual line, its outer edge waved and with black 

 point at costa, enclosing a small white spot just beyond the cell, and 

 a diffused oblique sinuous brownish band from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin, bounded by the white postmedial line ; terminal 

 area suffused with black with the indistinct, very minutely waved 

 white subtermiual line on it, the apex sometimes whiter ; some 

 black points on termen towards apex ; cilia white tinged with 

 rufous, black at middle. Hind wing white ; a blackish antemedial 

 band from costa to median nervure with some dark irroration and 

 the two black discoidal points beyond it ; two black striae at middle 

 of inner margin ; a curved brownish postmedial band from costa to 

 vein 2 ; a slight brownish subtermiual line from costa to vein 2 with 

 black point at costa ; some black scales on termen ; cilia white 

 faintly tinged with brown at apex and middle and with a few black 

 scales at tornus ; the underside white with faint brownish medial 

 band and terminal band from apex to vein 3. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 S type ; Ceylon {Lhidesay), 1 5 • Exp. 

 14 millim. 



*5310. Holocryptis ussuriensis. 



Troctoptera ussuriensis, Rebel, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 231 (1901). 



2 . Head white ; thorax and abdomen white tinged with grey. 

 Fore wing white sufl'used with grey, darker towards termen : ante- 



