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Show 410 COL. c SWINHOE ON N E W [NOV. 5, Hab. Sattara, June 1884; Poon, June and July 1887. Many examples taken. From other described species this may be distinguished by the two peculiar black bands on the fore wing, the inner band being wavy and the outer band erect. NOOTUES. A c O N T I I D i E. ACONTIA KARACHIENSIS, n. sp. Male. Antennae grey, body above and below pure white ; fore wings white, costa with some grey markings, a greyish-brown line which goes upwards from centre of hinder margin, then abruptly bends to the apex, and has an excavation downwards where the reniform should be ; this line has two black marks on each side of the excavation, and from it to the margin the wing is coloured dark grey; a marginal macular black line, and very broad grey fringe, with central and subapical white patches ; hind wings white, with a slight grey marginal line, a slight greyish tinge on the border, and a grey interline in the white fringe. Below : wings white and shining, with grey patches on the fringe of the fore wings ; legs white, tarsi with grey bands. Female. Differs from the male in having grey suffusions on the thorax and a grey abdomen ; fore wings iron-grey, with the white showing through here and there, a white diffuse subcostal band extending from base to tips; hind wings greyish white, with the border a little darker, white patches in cilia same as in male. Expanse of wings 3 jry inch, 2 1 inch. Hab. Karachi, June and July 1885-6. 5 3 and 10 2 taken. Allied to A. costalis. Differs iu the mottled grey fore wing, this wing in the male having the basal area, as well as the costal border, clear of markings. APAMEID*. APAMEA MINIMA, n. sp. Antennae and palpi brown; head, thorax, and fore wings grev, with a yellowish flesh-coloured tint ; head and thorax speckled with brown ; fore wings suffused with greyish brown, transverse brown lines, subbasal and antemedian, both with a brown short longitudinal streak running outwardly from their centres ; the subbasal line indistinct, with the streak very short and also rather indistinct; a discal oblique lunular brown line, the space from this to the margin paler than the rest of the wing ; a submarginal, short, diffuse, brown lunular line with pale outer border from the hinder margin, stopping at one third from the apex, and a marginal line of black disconnected lunules ; fringe brown, with pale patches ; costa with brown marks; orbicular represented by a white dot; reniform also white large, somewhat resembling the capital letter H. Hind wings nearly white, with a yellowish flesh-coloured tinge, and |