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Show 492 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [May 7, dish ochraceous lines, and the rest of the wing by sepia-brown lines ; a discal series of white-edged spots, black on the discoidal interspaces, otherwise brown ; median vein and bases of the branches black-spotted : secondaries semitransparent sordid white, with opaque outer border and grey submarginal stripe : body stramineous, streaked with reddish ochraceous. Wings below cream-coloured, with greyish-brown submarginal belt; body white. Expanse I inch. The only example obtained of this singular species is, unfortunately, rather rubbed. 122. SCOTOSIA CATOCALARIA, Walker, Lep. Het. xxxv. p. 1689 (1866). 123. PTEROCYPHA STELLATA, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 443. n. 1627 (1857). 124. HYPOSIDRA OCHREA, n. sp. Ochreous; wings with a silvery gloss, excepting the outer border, a discal belt, and a costal dash upon the primaries, which are of a clearer yellow colour ; primaries with the lower half of the discal belt edged externally with orange and plumbaginous; edge of fringe orange: secondaries with two parallel zigzag purplish-brown streaks across the abdominal half, the upper streak intersected by a plumbaginous line; edge of fringe orange: head brown. Wings below bright ochreous, with an oblique discal purplish streak; primaries with diffused silvery-whitish external area; pectus whitish, legs testaceous. Expanse 1 inch 3 lines. I have to thank Mr. F. Moore for the identification of this genus, the type of which is a Javan species, not in the Museum collection. 125. HYPENA LUNIFERA, n. sp. Primaries above lilacine brown, crossed by two slender blackish zigzag lines, between which is an orange lunule, with its inferior extremity white and edged with black, representing the reniform spot; an orange dot at the costal extremity of the second black line, and two subcostal dots of the same colour close to apex; a marginal series of black dots : secondaries pale smoky brown, darker towards the outer margin, crossed at the middle by an arched series of black spots ; a marginal series of black dots : body dark brown, back of thorax slightly lilacine. Primaries below greyish brown; costal area speckled with whity brown ; the discocellulars and au arched discal series of spots dusky ; a marginal series of depressed triangular spots : secondaries sordid white, speckled with dark brown ; a black discocellular lunule ; two discal parallel zigzag dark brown lines, the outer one ill-defined ; a marginal series of black spots, as in primaries ; pectus smoky brown. Expanse 1 inch. 126. SYNGAMIA FLORELLA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 348. fie. L (1782). |