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37. Graphiphora absorbens. 



Mas et foem. Testacea; antennae maris vix ciliatce ; alee anticce 

 fusco conspersce punctisque fuscis subobsolete fasciatce, apud 

 costam subrectce, apice angulatce, margine exteriore perparum 

 obliquo, orbiculari et reniformi subrotundis nigricantibus ; 

 posticce macula indistincta discali fusca. 



Male and female. Testaceous. Thorax and wings minutely 

 speckled with brown. Fore wings with the speckles here and there 

 more frequent, and forming indistinct bands; costa nearly straight ; 

 tips angular ; exterior border very slightly oblique ; orbicular and 

 reniform marks forming two nearly round blackish spots, the former 

 much smaller than the latter. Hind wings with an indistinct brown 

 discal spot. Male. — Antennae very 'minutely ciliated. Length of 

 the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a, b. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Asia* 



38. Graphiphora eminens. 



Schistaceo-cinerea ; alee anticce lineis transversis nigris remotis du- 

 plicatis, strigis discalibus nigricantibus, orbiculari et reni- 

 formi conspicuis pallido marginatis ilia obliqua subelliptica ; 

 posticce albce. 



Graphiphora* eminens, Lederer, VerhandL ZooL Botan. Verein. in 

 Wien. v. 106, pi. l,f. 5. 



Altai, Siberia. 



Australia. 



39. Graphiphora reclusa. 



Cervina, subtus alba ; caput antice album; thorax ex parte albo 

 hirtus ; abdomen pallide cinereum ; alee anticce pallidissime 

 cervince, lituris costalibus nigris, fascia diffusa submarginali 

 maculaque postica nigricantibus, orbiculari nigricante pupiU 

 lata annulo cervinb inclusa, reniformi nigricante vix excavata, 

 lunulis marginalibus nigris ; posticce albce, litura discali mar" 

 gineque fuscis. 



Fawn-colour, mostly white beneath. Head white in front. 

 Thorax partly clothed with white hairs. Abdomen pale cinereous. 

 Fore wings very pale fawn-colour, with some black marks along the 

 costa, and with a blackish diffuse submarginal band, which is obso- 

 lete hindward ; a blackish spot behind the orbicular one, which has 



