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at upper angle of cell and small spot at lower angle with very 

 oblique line from it to inner margin near base defining the white 

 and brown areas ; postmedial line double filled in with white, 

 acutely angled outwards at vein 7, then very oblique and slightly 

 bent outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 defined on each side by fuscous, excurved below costa, then oblique ; 

 a series of black points before termen. Hiud wing red-brown, the 

 base and inner margin to beyond middle whitish ; a blackish 

 discoidal bar ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, sinuous ; 

 a subterminal series of fuscous and whitish points ; a series of black 

 points before termen ; the underside grey suffused with brown, 

 traces of a dark discoidal spot and of curved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines, a series of black points before termen. 



Hah. Mattkititts, Curepipe (Cavie), type f cJ in coll. Joannis. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



B. Mid tibiiB of male normal. 



a. Fore wing with the costal area whitish, its lower edge 



oblique from apex to inner margin near base vacillatrix. 



b. Fore wing with the costal area not whitish. 



a^. Fore wiug pale rufous addescens. 



h^. Fore wing ochreons yellow, the terminal area suffused 



with crimson xylonota. 



5353. Lophoruza vacillatrix, n. sp. 



Head and tegulse rufous slightly mixed with grey ; thorax white 

 mixed with brown ; abdomen chocolate-red with a white line at 

 base ; pectus and legs white slightly tinged with rufous, the fore- 

 legs brownish in front. Fore wing chocolate-red, the costal area 

 white irrorated with brown, thickly towards costa, the white 

 extending to inner margin near base ; a faint brown antemedial 

 line, slightly angled outwards below costa and at median nervure, 

 then oblique ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line dark 



Fig. 62. — Lophoruza vacillatrix, (S . \. 



defined on outer side by white, very oblique from costa to below 

 vein 7 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and very 

 slightly sinuous, a curved white mark becoming yellow at ex- 

 tremity from its angle to near termen and some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line white with black mark before it 

 below costa, interrupted at the curved streak, then slight and very 

 minutely dentate, a white mark beyond it at apex ; a series of black 

 points before termen with white striae on their outer side on apical 



