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koctutd-e. 
Mesosciera orientalis, n. sp. 
(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous irrorated with a 
very few black scales ; antennae dark brown ; palpi suffused 
with dark brown ; spurs ringed black and white. Fore 
wing rufous tinged with grey, especially on postmedial area, 
and sparsely irrorated with black ; two antemedial lines, 
the inner faint and brown, the outer distinct and blackish, 
angled outwards below costa, incurved in the cell and at 
vein 1 and excurved in submedian interspaces ; a minute 
black spot in middle of cell ; a narrow white discoidal lunule 
defined by blackish, its extremities somewhat dilated ; medial 
line rather diffused chocolate-brown, excurved just beyond the 
cell, then sinuous and with chocolate-brown suffusion between 
it and the postmedial line from cell to inner margin ; post- 
medial line brown, blackish at costa, dentate to vein 3 and 
slightly angled outwards below costa and at vein 4, bent 
inwards at vein 3 to near the medial line ; traces of a waved 
subterminal line with minute black spots at the veins, ex- 
curved below costa and at middle. Hind wing rufous tinged 
with grey and sparsely irrorated with black ; a slight blackish 
discoidal bar ; faint traces of a dentate brown postmedial 
line ; a subterminal series of slight black points ; cilia rufous 
to submedian fold, the hair on inner margin whitish. Under- 
side rufous strongly tinged with grey ; fore wing irrorated 
with blackish, a small black spot in middle of cell, slight 
whitish discoidal lunule, postmedial line blackish, dentate, 
angled outwards below costa and incurved below vein 3, a 
curved subterminal series of black points ; hind wing with 
the costal area irrorated with black towards base, a slight 
dark discoidal lunule, minutely dentate postmedial line, and 
subterminal series of black points. 
§. More strongly tinged with purple-grey and with less 
rufous except on terminal areas of both wings, the black 
irroration stronger ; fore wing with a purplish grey shade 
between the medial and postmedial lines extending to the 
costa. 
Hab. Singapore {Ridley), 2 <J, 10 $ type; Borneo, 
Sarawak, Kuching {Lewis), 1 Sandakan {Creagh), 1 $. 
Exp. 40-44 millim. 
Mesosciera typica, n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish grey tinged 
with red-brown. Fore wing pale purplish grey irrorated 
with a few black scales ; a faint curved brown subbasal 
striga from costa ; two indistinct waved brown antemedial 
lines ; medial line brown, excurved below costa and in sub- 
median interspace and angled inwards at vein 1 ; two whitish 
