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HEEMINIID^. 
a reddish tinge ; some irregular black subbasal marks ; a small black spot in the middle of 
the cell ; an inwardly-oblique medial black band, a postmedial waved one ; a submarginal 
"whitish lunulate band, broken at the discoidal nervules, with a black spot on inside of the 
subapical lunule ; two black specks at end of cell ; black specks on costa at origin of post- 
medial and submarginal bands ; a series of black antecilial specks. Hind -wing with indisinct, 
dark subbasal band ; black speck at middle of cell ; medial nearly straight band, and post- 
medial pale lunulate one, the lunules filled in with black ; a series of antecilial black specks. 
Underside paler, with bands less distinct : fore wing with a subbasal black spot below the 
costa^ and a very conspicuous black subapical one : hind wing with a conspicuous black 
lunule at centre of cell. 
Female with the medial black band more erect. 
Herminia ruptistigma. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 20.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing brown, with a purple gloss ; a narrow pale brown antemedial band, 
angled below the costa ; a small black spot in the middle of the cell, a very indistinct fuscous 
diffused medial band ; an indistinct stigma at the end of the cell, with a broken black outline 
on its inner side ; a pale brown postmedial band, angled below the discoidal nervules, and 
with a smoky-black patch in the outer angle; an indistinct fuscous waved submarginal band ; 
a smoky-black apical patch; a scries of black antecilial specks. Hind wing fuscous, with very 
indistinct medial and postmedial dark bands, which are better marked on the underside. 
Allied to H. hadenalis. 
Byturna rufifascia. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 6.) 
Expanse ~ inch. 
Male. Fore wing pale olive-brown, with a few red strigse in and below the cell ; a blood- 
red diffused band from the costa near the apex to centre of inner margin ; a waved submar- 
ginal band, least distinct near costa, blood-red and diffused to outer margin. Hind wing 
fuscous. Underside : fore wing fuscous, with the apex red : hind wing ochreous white, the 
costal half of the wing suffused with red. 
Female. Fore wing with the red colour diffused over the whole wing ; the bands much less 
distinct : cilia of both wings pink, not fuscous as in male. 
The colour and oblique band on fore wing distinguish this species from B. d'tyramm,a. 
Avitta luna. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 21.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing olive-green, slightly suffused with red; barely traceable waved red 
