PYRAT7STLDJ3, 
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expanded dorsally into a blotch ; a dark grey terminal fascia, its 
upper half occupied except narrow margins by a whitish blotch ; 
cilia pale greyish, a grey subbasal shade. 
Bllgian Congo, IN. Kivu, Kissenyi, November (C. Seydel); 2 ex. 
(type lielg. Cong. Mus.). Nearly allied to the Indian amyntalis Walk. 
Lygropia orthotoma, n. sp. 
$ . 20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax lighi ochreous-ycllow. Fore 
tibiae and tarsi whitish banded black. Forewings rather elongate- 
triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, termen rather obliquely 
bowed ; light ochreous-yellow ; a short subbasal ochreous-orange line 
from a black mark on costa ; a short transverse ochreous-orange 
line from dorsum beyond this; a black transverse discal spot on end 
of cell; lines greyish-yellow, forming black marks on costa, first 
straight, little oblique, second somewhat thick, from costa at § almost 
straight and little oblique | across wing, thence acutely angled 
to beneath discal spot, and again acutely angled direct to dorsum ; 
a rather excurved grey-yellowish subterminal shade; a grey terminal 
line : cilia whitish, base within a grey antemedian line whitish- 
yellow. Hindwings whitish-yellow ; hist and second lines rather 
thick, gre) ish-j ellow, approximated towards tornus, hist hardly 
excurved, second straight; subterminal shade as in lorewings, but 
running into second line above tornus ; terminal line and cilia as in 
fore wings. 
Java, iSeneng, bred December from larva feeding on leaves of 
a plant not yet identified (Dr . L. 6r. E. Kalshoven) ; 1 ex. Allied 
to quaternalis and obrinalis , but lines quite differently formed. 
Lygropia phaeoxantha, n. sp. 
$ . 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light ochreous-yellow. Fore¬ 
wings ochreous-yellow ; basal area faintly tinged fuscous ; lines 
rather dark iuscous, first from before ^ of costa to middle of dorsum, 
rather excurved or bent in disc, second from beyond | of costa to § of 
dorsum, waved and excurved in disc, slightly marked on costal third, 
thick towards dorsum and on lower halt of disc expanded externally 
into a broad fuscous blotch confluent above with a transverse fuscous 
discal spot, preceded by an angulated dark fuscous mark and 
connected with costa by a dark iuscous stmioval annulus ; a broad 
fuscous terminal fascia obsolete anteriorly on costa, in lower half of 
disc suffusedJy conliuent with preceding markings : cilia greyish, 
obscurely barred pale suffusion. Hindwings grey, anteiiorly paler 
and tinged whitish towards costa, darker towards termen ; cilia light 
greyish. 
Fiji, Vunidawa, February ( 11 . H . Phillips) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Sylepta xanthothorax, n. sp. 
d 36 mm., $ 32 mm. Head, palpi light ochreous tinged 
orange. Thorax ochreous-orange. Forewungs rather elongate- 
triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, termen slightly rounded, 
