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*^ Brown, palpi reddish, crown of the head pale ; superior 

 wings comparatively short, narrow at the base, and consider- 

 ably broader at the apex, with the costa reddish ; two pale 

 strigae towards the base, an oblique, oval, and an auriculate 

 stigma, with pale margins and reddish centres towards the 

 middle, beyond which are two pale sinuated strigae, the 

 nervures between them pale, and bearing a row of dots 

 as well as the posterior margin: inferior wings orange, 

 fuscous at the base, the nervures fuscous, a black fimbria, 

 narrow at the anal angle, curved above and reaching the 

 centre where it forms a crescent, the extreme edge indented 

 and not touching the margin ; abdomen cinereous ; the sides 

 and apex ferruginous." — Curtis^ 1. c. 



Mr. Curtis, well aware of the similarity of this species 

 to the familiar Tryphaena orbona, thus differentiates them : — - 



" That ray specimen is distinct from our other species 

 there is no doubt, for the superior wings are formed more 

 like those of Cerigo texta, the stigmata are larger than 

 in T. orbona, the fascia of the inferior wings is broader, and 

 the superior margin beneath is black and not rosy ; in colour 

 it most resembles the N. consequa of Hlibner (Noct. tab. 23, 

 fig. 105); his N. subsequa is more like N. orbona." 



In the 'Insect-hunter's Year-book' for 1870 I have taken 

 considerable pains to differentiate this species from Tryphaena 

 orbona, with which it may very excusably be confounded by 

 those who do not possess a series of both. There are now 

 in the possession of myself and others a great number of 

 chrysalids, and, when they emerge, some of them will infal- 

 libly reveal their ancestry if they be really the descendants of 

 Tryphaena orbona. I notice that the very variability of these 

 two species has been urged as a plea for reuniting them as 

 a single species ; but this appears to me quite as cogent a 

 reason for keeping them separate, since I have often observed 

 that two cognate species may, and frequently do, exhibit an 

 infinity of variations. — Edward Newman. 



^^ Ephyra strahonaria of Zeller. — Intermediaire entre 

 Punctaria et Trilinearia mais plus voisine de cette derniere: 

 25 mm. Ailes d'un carne-jaunatre, teinte de rose chez les 

 exemplaires frais, sans atomes. Les points des deux series 

 ordinaires sont lies et ferment deux lignes denticulees. 

 L'ombre mediane est bien distincte, mais ne forme pas une 



