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Show 682 MR. A. G. B U T L E R O N [Dec. 14, coloured at base, remainder of costal margin cupreous ; two transverse widely separated grey lines dividing the wing into three nearly equal parts, the inner line slightly angulated; fringe traversed by a grey line and tipped with grey : secondaries crossed near the middle by two angulated, arched, subparallel grey lines ; fringe traversed by a very pale grey line. Wings below golden or sandy yellow, glossy, with lines as above, the secondaries paler excepting at the outer border; body below bright sandy yellow. Expanse of wmgs 11 lines. One rather ragged specimen. ,- „ c This species seems to be allied to the " Asopia decolorahs of Lederer (Wien. ent. Monatschr. vii. pl. 6. fig. 10). 104. PYRALIS, sp. Two rubbed examples, too much worn for identification ; the species seems allied to P. farinalis. 105. DOTHTHA THERMUSALIS. Pyralis 1 thermusalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 311 (1859). Two examples. It is doubtful whether the genus Doththa can be distinguished from Endotricha (Asopiidae). ENNYCHIIDcE. 106. P Y R A U S T A ABSISTALIS. Pyrausta absistalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 311 (1859). One example with rather larger and darker spots than in the type, in which respect it approaches " Asopia lydicdis " of Walker, from Moreton Bay, Australia, which is a Pyrausta closely allied to P. absistalis. AsOPIIDcE. 107. S A M E A DIVES, sp. n. Bright ochre-yellow. Wings above mottled and striped towards the base with burnt-sienna ; a very irregular waved and crenulated slender black discal line ; a rather broad sericeous plum-coloured external border, sinuated and black-edged internally ; fringe short, dark brown: primaries with an irregularly notched black-edged plum-coloured and burnt-sienna reniform spot: body spotted at the sides with burnt-sienna, and with whitish hinder margins to the abdominal segments. Wings below altogether paler than above, the markings indistinct; body below creamy white. Expanse of wings 10 lines. One specimen : it is brighter in colour than any species known to me. 108. ASOPIA RTJFIPICTA, sp. n. Bright straw-yellow, with the lines and spots arranged almost exactly as in A. vulgalis of Guenee, but rose-coloured instead of |