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defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform well deve- 

 loped, their centres defined by brown, the former irregularly 

 rounded ; a waved medial line, oblique below cell ; postmedial line 

 double, dentate, filled in with greyish and defined by grey mi outer 

 side, escurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, waved, greyish, with some ill-defined blackish spots on 

 its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown striga from costa 

 before middle, small discoidal spot, crenulate postmedial line 

 strongly excurved from costa to vein 2, and diffused subterminal 

 line except on costal area. 



2 . Hind wing wholly red-brown. 



Hah. Venezuela, type t in Coll. Kothschild. Exi^. S 40, 

 5 42 millim. 



2519. Eumichtis rubrimixta, n. sp. (Plate CIV. fig. 18.) 



$ . Head and thorax reddish mixed with some fuscous ; sides of 

 palpi and frous blackish ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous with 

 pale brownish segmental bands. Fore wing rufous tinged with 

 fuscous and irrorated with black ; a sinuous black streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; autemedial line single, black, waved ; claviform defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform rufous incompletely defined by black 

 and with some fuscous in centres ; the former oblique elliptical, a 

 blackish patch between them in cell ; traces of a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line black defined by rufous on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 rufous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 rufous, defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion and with slight 

 dark dentate marks near middle, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia rufous and 

 fuscous with dark line through them. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous except at base, an indistinct postmedial line and dark 

 terminal line ; cilia rufous with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. Teansvaal, Johannesburg (J.. T. Coolie), 2 5 type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus VALERIA. 



Type. 



Valeria, Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., Haust. iii. p. 22 (1829) oleagina. 



Synvaleria, Bud, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 672 jaspidea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints clothed 

 ■with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long and dilated at extremity; 

 frons smooth, tufted with long hair; eyes large, rounded; vertex of head with 

 •crest ; thorax clothed with long rough spatulate scales and hair, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus clothed with long liair ; abdomen 



