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with purple and green reflections. Fore wings slightly rounded 

 at the tips, with numerous transverse brown streaks for more than 

 half the length from the base ; exterior part with fawn-coloured 

 points, and with a short brighter fawn-coloured submarginal band, 

 which contains four deep black streaks, and terminates bindward in 

 a fawn-coloured circle ; costa and exterior border very slightly con- 

 vex, the latter very slightly oblique. Hind wings blackish brown ; 

 fringe cinereous. Length ol the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



16. CARPOCAPSA ATROCHALYBjEANA. 



Mas, Nigra, subtns alba; thorax lineis transverns chalyhais ; 

 tibiae posticus subdilatatce ; abdomen fuscum ; al& anticce apice 

 subrotundatce, lineis nonnullis chalybais transversis undulatis 

 ex parte connexis, strigis costalibus chalybais; posticus fusca^ 

 chalybceo fimbriatce. 



Male, BlacK. Body beneath, femora and hind tibiae? white, 

 the. latter slightly dilated and fringed. Palpi porrect, obtuse, hardly 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint ex ire inly short. Antennae 

 stout, minutely setulose. Thorax with chalybeous transverse lines. 

 Abdjmen brown, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 I wings slightly rounded at the tips, with several irregular undulating 

 partly connected chalybeous lines ; costa very slightly convex, with 

 three groups of oblique chalybeous streaks ; exterior border slightly 

 convex and oblique. Hind wings brown ; fringe chalybeous. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9-g- lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



17. Cakpocapsa descriptana. 



Mas. Albido-cinerea< cervino pullido subtincia; alee sat angustce, 

 subtus nig ric ante -ci tier e ce ; anticce nig ric ante strigata, apice 

 rectangutatce, plagis duabus posticis nigricantibus,vitta costali 

 rufescente-cervina, strigulis costalibus obliquis albidis, lineola 

 submarginali postica chalybaa ; strigulis duabus submur- 

 ginalibus atris ; postica? nigricante-cinerece, 



Male. Whitish cinereous, slightly tinged with pale fawn- 

 colour. Antennae smooth. Abdomen exteuding beyond the hind 

 wings. Wings rather narrow, blackish cinereous beneath. Fore 

 wings rectangular at the tips, minutely and trausversely blackish 



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