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16. Gauris bigerana. 



Foem. Obscure fusca; antenna dimidio basali incrassato 

 squamoso ; alee anticce cinereo conspersce ; pectus album; 

 abdominis segmenta cinereo marginata ; pedes albo fasciati ; 

 alec linea marginali ochracea ; anticce subfalcata, spatio medio 

 atomis cinereis, fascia submarginali ochracea vaide angulosa, 

 fimbria antice chalybaa. 



Female. Dark brown. Proboscis very short. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, obliquely ascending, much shorter than the breadth of the 

 head ; third joint lanceolate. Antennae setulose, incrassated with 

 scales for more than half the length from the base. Thorax and 

 fore wings very minutely speckled with cinereous. Abdomen with 

 a cinereous band on the hind border of each segment. Pectus 

 shining white. Legs with white bands. Wings with a marginal 

 ochraceous line. Fore wings acute, subfalcate ; middle space 

 thickly speckled with hoary, concisely divided from the basal space; 

 submarginal band ochraceous, very zigzag; fringe chalybeous in 

 front; costa and exterior border hardly convex, the latter very 

 slightly oblique. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



a — e. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



17. Gauris canofusana. 



Cupreo-nigra ; alee antica lineis duabus albis Iransversis sub- 

 rectis, plagis duabus exterioribus diffusis albis, macula 

 subapicali furcata lineaque marginali ochraceis, fimbria 

 cinerea. 



Allied to G. bigerana. Cupreous-black. Fore wings acute, 

 hardly filcate, with two white transverse nearly straight lines ; 

 second line in the middle; two exterior diffuse white patches; 

 a forked subapical ochraceous spot ; marginal line ochraceous ; 

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

 8 lines. 



Amazon Kegion. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



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