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finally some black markings near the terminal excision : inferior with only one line, 

 which becomes obliterated near the middle of the wing. In well-marked specimens 

 there is also a pale subterminal line common to all the wings. 



The under-side is of a more lively yellow, strongly vai-ied with ferruginous, 

 with the same lines and dots as the upper-side, but less marked and reddish : on 

 the inferior is a median band, toothed inferiorily and surmounted, in the cellule, by 

 an oval ferruginous dot, traversed by a fine white line, which divides the cellule in 

 two parts, and is prolonged to the apical margin. The whole body is coloured as in 

 the wings. I have not seen females of this insect. 



Family v. BOAEMIDJE. 



Genus Gnophos. 



GNOPnos PANNULARiA, Gueiiee, n. s. 



Statura G. ohscuratce. AI(b omnes latce, deniatce, griseo-testaceoe, 

 striatoe ; margine laio, hrunneo-ruhricante : anticce macula quadrata termi- 

 nali alha. Antennce pectinatce. 



It is as large as the largest ohscuroda. All the wings are strongly toothed, 

 testaceous -grey, powdered with fine blackish atoms. The base of the superior and 

 the last half of all the wings are tinted with reddish-brown, forming a kind of vague 

 border, which, on the superior, has the appearance of being denticulated inwardly, 

 and is narrower opposite to the cellule : beneath, this border does not extend to the 

 mai>gin, and thus forms a subterminal band; there is here, on all the wings, a 

 cellular black dot, which is larger on the inferior. Body colom'ed as in the wings, 

 without markings. Palpi little prominent, as in all species of the genus. Antennae 

 furnished with long, but fine, pubescent pectinations. 



Family xi. ACIDALIDiE. 

 Genus Asthena. 

 AsTHENA MTJLLATA, Gueuee, n. 8. 



Statura A. risatce. Alee omnes ruhro-paleacece, lineolis mult is un- 

 diilatis griscis parallelis ; duahus mediis griseo scepe infuscatis ; imnctiilo 

 cellular i nigro : anticcD litura media vix conspicua ferruginea. Frons 

 hrunnea. Antennce hasi albce. 



This little species approaches more to the true AcidalicB than do its congeners 

 ordinata and risata, yet its wings have the same form : they arc pale straw colour 

 rather than reddish, and ai*e traversed by a multitude of grey parallel lines, which 

 are nearly straight, but composed of little lunules j the two median ones are more 

 blackish-grey, and, behind these, between the second and third nervules, is a more 

 or less distinct geminated ferruginous mark ; a small round, very distinct, cellular 

 dot, and other similar terminal ones : beneath the lines are distinct only from the 

 cellular dots to the terminal border, and the base of the superior wings is suffused 

 with black. Front cinnamon-brown, and contrasting with the vertex, which is 

 paler than the rest of the head, and whitish, as is also the base of the antenna". 

 I say nothing about the latter, believing that I have only females. 



