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Abdomen ochreous-whitisli with some grey irroration ; a 

 minute median dorsal crimson dot on antepenultimate seg- 

 ment. Legs ochreous-whitisli irrorated with fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular, costa nearly straight but slightly 

 sinuate, apex pointed, termen slightly rounded, moderately 

 oblique; whitish, closely irrorated with fuscous, slightly 

 purplish-tinged ; a series of ill-defined ochreous-whitisli dots 

 on posterior half of costa; a fuscous subcostal dot at § ; an 

 ill-defined pale 'transverse median line; a better-marked pale 

 subterminal line from 9/10 costa to tornus; traces of 

 a fine fuscous terminal line; cilia purple-whitish. Hindwings 

 whitish with some fuscous suffusion ; a faint pale line from 

 tornus towards middle; a very fine fuscous terminal line; 

 cilia purple-whitish. 



Three male examples all worn, but there seems to be no 

 doubt as to their constituting a new species. 



Subfamily PYRATJSTINAE. 



DlASEMIA DELOSTICHA, n. Sp. 



(SrjXocTTixos with conspicuous lines). 



cT and 9> 16-20 mm. Head fuscous-brown. Palpi 3 \ ; 

 fuscous, beneath whitish. Antennae fuscous; ciliations in 

 male §. Thorax dark fuscous; margins whitish-brown, ex- 

 cept for a dark-fuscous spot on base of patagia. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous, apices of segments whitish. Legs brown- 

 whitish ; anterior pair except coxae fuscous. Forewings 

 narrowly-triangular, costa straight to f , thence arched, apex 

 pointed, termen sinuate, oblique; dark fuscous; a reddish- 

 brown subcostal bar from base to -f, indented beneath at 

 middle of disc; an ill-defined whitish basal dorsal area; an 

 irregular whitish median area, thinly scaled like the pre- 

 ceding; a very distinct, inwardly curved, slightly wavy, 

 whitish line from J costa to tornus, posteriorly suffusedly 

 edged with reddish-brown ; a whitish apical suffusion curved 

 inwards towards tornus ; cilia fuscous irregularly barred with 

 white. Hindwings with termen strongly sinuate; dark fus- 

 cous ; a whitish basal area containing a dark-fuscous subcostal 

 spot; a white fascia from mid-.costa to dorsum before tornus, 

 slightly angled outwards in middle; a white line from f costa 

 to beneath middle of termen, bent inwards in middle; cilia 

 white with a dark-fuscous sub-basal line, and dark-fuscous 

 bars at apex and above middle of termen. 



Nearly allied to D. grammalis, Dbld., from New Zealand, 



but in that species the posterior line of forewings terminates 



in dorsum well before tornus. Both species are nearly related 



-to the European D. litterata, Scop. Evidently abundant, 62 



specimens secured. 



