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Show 188 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat and oblique ; antennae annulate tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from near angle of cell; 7 straight and Avell separated from 8, 9. Hind Aving Avith veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing Avith 8. (l)flscHKURGES GRATIOSALIS Wlk. xvii. 357; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. pi. 173. f. 12. China; India; Ceylon ; Borneo. fAsopia roridalis AVlk. xvii. 371. (2) ISCHNURGES ROSEA AVarr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. p. 142. Assam. (3) ISCHNURGES LANCINALIS Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 169. S. Africa. Botys expeditalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 372, pi. 9. f. 15. (4)fIsciiNURGEs PERPULCHRALIS, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 24.) § . Head bright pink, the vertex yellow ; thorax bright yellow, shoulders with pink stripes; pectus white ; abdomen yellow, the last four segments pink. Fore wing bright yellow, the costa and terminal third bright pink; an antemedial piuk line angled below the cell and a spot at middle of cell, both sometimes almost entirely obsolete; the inner edge of terminal pink area sinuous; a large yellow patch beyond the cell between veins 7 and 2, its inner edge encroached on by pink scales above and below middle. Hind Aving white; the terminal area yellowish suffused with pink scales, most Avidely at vein 2. Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Scliaus). Exp. 22 mm. (5)fIscHNURGEs RUFALIS Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 163, pi. 172. f. 28. Ceylon. (6)fIsCHNURGES ARGENTALIS Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 163, pi. 173. f. 16. Ceylon. (7)fISCHNURGES LUTEOMARGINALIS Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 134 pi. 155. f. 18. S. India. (8)flSCHNURGES ANGUSTALIS Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 173, pi. 172. f- 20. Ceylon ; Burma. Type. (9) ISCHNURGES ILLUSTRALIS Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 418, pi. 15. f. 12. New Guinea; Australia. Nesolocha autolitha Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 240. (lO)tlsCHNURGES DISCOPHORALIS, n. Sp. Black-brown with a slight yellowish gloss; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore Aving with the costal area purplish ; a semihyaline yellow spot below origin of vein 2; a dark discoidal spot with yellow point before it and large yellow lunulate patch beyond it between veins 7 aud 2 running inwards below end of cell; cilia whitish towards tornus. Hind wing pale |