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and 7 : hind wing with three white spots on the disc, that in cell 2 oblong, that in cell 3 

 cuneate, and that in cell 4 roundish. Underside : fore wing blackish-brown on the disc, 

 closely sprinkled with greenish-yellow scales in the costal and apical regions ; pale spots 

 as on the upperside save that the one in cell 1 a is represented by a suffused white 

 patch and a pale point is feebly indicated in cell 8 : hind wing dull greyish green by 

 reason of a close sprinkling of greenish-yellow scales on a brown ground, pale spots as 

 on the upperside but feebly and irregularly dark-edged. Fringes pale grey, the short 

 scales brown. Antennae above blackish, spotted with white beneath ; club white on 

 the underside. Second joint of the palpi clothed with greyish-yellow and black hairs 

 intermixed. Body above and legs brown ; abdomen beneath and the tarsi yellowish grey. 



Expanse 31 mm. 



Hab. Pulo Laut, Borneo (Doherty). 



This species, which is described from a single example in coll. Elwes, is well 

 distinguished from its allies by the want of pale spots in the cell of the fore wing. 



Scobuka bipdnctata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 2, 2 •) 



$ . Upperside ochreous brown : fore wing with a yellow spot near the middle of cell 

 1 a and seven hyaline spots — two small and remote in the cell, one in each of cells 2, 3, 

 and 4 forming a rapidly decreasing series, and one in each of cells 6 and 7 ; hind wing 

 with two small irregularly roundish hyaline spots on the disc, and one in each of cells 2 

 and 3. Underside : fore wing brown on the disc, the dorsal region pale yellowish grey 

 nearly to the base, the costal and apical regions thickly clothed with greenish-yellow 

 scales, the hyaline spots as on the upperside : hind wing dull greenish-yellow by reason 

 of the thick clothing of greenish -yellow scales on a brown ground, a median band of 

 small irregular, bare, and therefore brown, spots running parallel to the termen, the 

 hyaline spots in cells 2 and 3 not so well defined as on the upperside. Fringe of the 

 fore wing yellowish grey indistinctly chequered ; of the hind wing greyish yellow on the 

 upperside, on the underside with the short scales and a few long ones next veins 2 and 

 3, brown. Second joint of palpi clothed with greyish-yellow and black hairs inter- 

 mixed. Antenna? above brown, spotted beneath with yellowish white ; club white on the 

 underside. Body above concolorous with the wings, abdomen beneath and legs paler. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Palawan (Platen). 



Described from a single specimen ex coll. Staudinger. 



Scobuea umbrosa, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 1, $ .) 



2 . Upperside deep warm brown, dorsal region of the hind wing paler : fore wing 

 with seven sordid white spots placed as follows : — one, roundish, near the middle of cell 

 1 a next vein la, one, subqnadrate, near the basal third of cell 2, one much smaller near 



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