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on upper angle of cell, median somewhat smaller, sometimes elongate; a 
transverse streak of dark grey suffusion halfway between cell and termen, 
strongly narrowed below, constricted below costa, connected with a 
moderate longitudinal suffused spot on costa before apex , a dark grey 
suffused streak along termen from below vein 7 to above tornus, some- 
times connected below with preceding; a curved outwardly concave 
transverse grey shade, sometimes very faint, almost connecting posterior 
discal dot with lower angle of cell and with tornus; sometimes a grey 
suffusion extending over median third of wing above fold, then discal 
markings narrowly edged with white. Cilia rather daik fuscous-grey, tips 
paler. Hind wing whitish tinged pale ochreous, apical third, and especially 
apex, suffused with greyish. Cilia whitish, tinged pale fuscous towards apex. 
Female genitalia very similar to those in the preceding species. Limen, 
an erect-ovate plate. Dorsal projection of the ostium shorter, longitudinal 
impression very short. Bursa copulatrix with a subapical transverse band 
of fine dentations. (Slide No. 856 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 17, 1938 (holotype), October 19, 1938 (paratype). Two specimens. 
Very near to iff. globifcva Mbyrick, 1938, but distinct by different 
arrangement of discal markings, and by differently shaped discal blotch 
and preterminal band. 
Meridarchis pentadrachma spec. nov. (fig. 501) 
7ib>re - five, (ba-/uij = a coin 
cj) 20 — 25 mm. Head white. Palpus white, basal half black; lower edge 
of median segment and terminal segment except tip, suffused with black. 
Thorax dark grey, tegula white, a black dot on shoulder. Abdomen 
greyish- whitish. Legs whitish, anterior suffused with blackish, all tarsi 
tinged fuscous. Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 approximated; elongate- 
subtriangular, little dilated; costa curved, more so towards extremities, 
apex obtusely pointed ; termen hardly rounded, moderately oblique. White, 
partially suffused with dark grey, markings black, with bronze tinge in 
certain lights. Costa beyond base with an elongate-semiovate patch, 
narrowly connected along edge of wing with base, below not reaching 
fold; four black longitudinal costal marks from beyond x / 4 to beyond 3 / 4 , 
first mark largest, remote, ultimate mark rounded; a semicircular dot 
above dorsum beyond base; a moderate rounded or subpentagonal patch 
just above fold at 1 / 4 , confluent with a longitudinal spot obliquely before 
this below fold; an elongate-ovate spot beyond preceding spot slightly 
reaching below fold ; three dots in an oblique longitudinal series . first 
ovate, below 2 / s of costa, posterior dot large, round, on upper angle of 
cell, with an inwardly oblique erect-ovate appendix below, median dot 
ovate, somewhat approximated to posterior ; a transverse wedge-shaped 
patch of dark grey suffusion beyond cell, angulate below anteriorly and 
