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extremely vague purplish shade distally to this line, then a row of very feeble 

 interneural dark dots (in the paratype obsolete) ; terminal interneural dark dots 

 rather strong anteriorly, becoming progressively weaker ; a whitish line at base of 

 fringe, distal half of fringe pale. — —Hindwing with termen very slightly more 

 convex than in melusina Prout, etc., tornus scarcely produced; concolorous with 

 forewing, the postmedian line and its accompanying shades continued but ante- 

 median, termen without dark dots, only with weak undulate brown line ; fringe as 

 on forewing. 



Underside grey, forewing with costal margin bright ochreous and apical 

 region suffused with rosy ; both wings with large discal dot and slight indications 

 of pale subterminal line, forewing with a slightly sinuous and oblique, hindwing 

 with a curved, postmedian line ; termen and fringe marked nearly as above, but 

 more weakly. 



Dominica, April 1905 (type) and January — -February 1905 (E. A. Agar), in 

 coll. Tring Mus. 



Related to melusina Prout, but differing in longer palpus, more convex margins, 

 brown colour and straight postmedian line. 



5. Leptoctenopsis translativena sp. nov. 



S ? , 35 and 31 mm. Face and palpus blackish. Head, body and legs 

 otherwise concolorous with wings. Antennal structure about as in calexaria 

 Walk. 



Forewing with apex acute, very minutely produced, termen curved ; smooth 

 drab-grey, without dark irroration ; a very fine, scarcely appreciably darkened 

 antemedian line from nearly one-third costa to beyond one-third hindmargin, 

 fairly straight ; a feeble discal mark ; postmedian line better expressed except at 

 costa, slightly pale-edged distally, from beyond two-thirds hindmargin, slightly 

 more oblique than termen to R, here curved or bent, anteriorly with some slight 

 indentations ; a faint whitish line close to termen, only developed in anterior part, 

 lunulate-dentate, forming slight teeth outwards both on veins and folds ; folds 

 between this and termen somewhat whitened ; terminal line blackish, thickening 

 between the veins (especially in anterior part), accompanied proximally by a fine 



brown line ; fringe rather dark, with a whitish line at base. Hindwing with 



R 2 arising behind middle of DC, in the c? very much behind (presenting an 

 extraordinarily Noctuid appearance) ; antemedian line and cell-mark wanting, 

 subterminal line scarcely traceable ; the rest nearly as on forewing. 



Underside without markings. 



Amazon, without further data. Type in coll. Tring Mus. Also a worn ? from 

 the Felder collection labelled " Amboina " — certainly an error, presumably 

 attributable to the reprehensible practice of employing abbreviations for geographical 

 names in labelling. 



6. Leptoctenopsis subrufa plagiogramma subsp. nov. 



$ ? , 39-45 mm. Ground-colour above variable, iu general brighter than in 

 subrufa subrufa Warr., from Ecuador, more rufous, with an admixture of fulvous ; 

 forewing with traces (at least on the veins) of a dark antemedian line, which is 

 strongly angnlated near costa, then very oblique inward ; a thick, very oblique 

 dark line across both wings, formed as in mena Druce ; a row of blackish vein-dots 



