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at the end of the cell ; thoracic crest much higher than in T. niveiceps and bordered with 

 clay-colour ; head, collar, ventral surface of the body, and secondaries below cream-colour. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



ODONESTIS, Germar. 

 Odonestis excellens. (Plate XXVI. figs. 4, 5.) 

 Odonestis excellens, Butler, Ann. <Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 481 (1877). 



<$ . Primaries gravel-yellow, with a white spot at the end of the cell, outer border 

 broadly and irregularly chocolate-brown ; base brownish, enclosing a large subcostal spot of the 

 ground-colour ; three equidistant zigzag lunulated brown stripes, the area between the first two 

 brownish : secondaries chocolate-brown, with a central diffused darker band : body deep sordid 

 ochreous ; antenna? creamy with brown pectinations : wings below ochraceous, with three 

 nearly parallel transverse brown streaks, the two outer ones on the secondaries macular. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines. 



? . Sordid testaceous, with markings less distinct than in the male. Expanse of wings 



3 inches 6 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Odonestis superans. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4.) 

 Odonestis superans, Butler, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 481 (1877). 



Smoky brown, with a white spot at the end of the cell ; primaries with an irregularly 

 sinuous disco-submarginal whitish -bordered dusky stripe, a slender transverse broadly sinuated 

 discal line ; male rather paler than the female, the primaries with a large white subcostal spot 

 near the base, an angulated transverse subbasal line, the centre of the interno-median area 

 occupied by a broad white nebula : wings below uniform in colouring, with an indication of a 

 darker diffused discal streak across both wings. Expanse of wings, J 1 3 inches 3 lines, 

 ? 4 inches 3 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Odonestis spectabilis. (Plate XXVII. fig. 3.) 

 Odonestis spectabilis, Butler, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 481 (1877). 



$ . Like the preceding species, excepting that the primaries and thorax are black, and 

 the whitish border of the submarginal stripe is replaced by white spots ; no white spot 

 at the end of the cell ; under surface with dusky-streaked external area to primaries and black 

 prothorax ; ground-colour of the wings redder than in the preceding species. Expanse of wings 



4 inches. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



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