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Show 158 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, " In repose the moth holds the end of the wings curved upwards " (Hedemann). This species, which belongs to the group of symmacha, Meyr., most resembles Comodica acontlstes, Meyr., but is not so strongly marked, and does not possess the notch in the antennae. 250. EREUNETIS LANCEOLATA, sp. n. Antennce cinereous. Palpi moderately long, drooping; greyish fuscous. Head above whitish cinereous, face greyish fuscous. Thorax pale cinereous. Fore wings dirty whitish, with a slight yellowish tinge, strongly marked with brownish cupreous in three costal blotches-the first at the base extending to about one-fourth, the second about the middle diffused obliquely outwards to the end of the cell, the third beyond the middle, containing an oblique line and an anteapical triangle of the pale ground-colour, extends very obliquely to a cupreous spot in the apical cilia ; the acuminate apex of the wing is defined by a cupreous line along the base of the costal and dorsal cilia, which are of the pale ground-colour. Exp. cd. 8-10 m m . Hind wings as broad as the fore wings, lanceolate acuminate ; shining pale grey ; cilia the same. Abdomen greyish. Legs : hind tibia? hairy; yellowish white, tibiae banded with fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-JAMAICA (Mandeville, 1950 ft., X . - Cockerell); ST. T H O M A S , 7-30 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann): four specimens. BRAZIL-Para (Amazons), IV., 20 VII., 1 IX.-15 XII. (Schulz): several specimens. This species belongs to the group of symmacha, Meyr. 251. EREUNETIS CENEOALBIDA, sp.n. Antennce pale yellowish. Palpi dependent; white. Head and face rough ; white, the crest brassy-yellow. Thorax shining white, touched with brassy-yellow behind. Fore wings shining, snow-white, with two transverse fasciae, three costal streaks, and one dorsal streak, all brassy-yellow-the first fascia close to the base, the second at |, the three costal streaks all very oblique from the middle to the apex, divided from an oblique medio-dorsal streak by a slender black longitudinal line ; the second costal streak, which is more slender than the other two, has a fine black line along its inner edge; the dorsal streak is also dark-margined internally ; cilia snow-white, with a cuneiform brassy dash along their base from the anal angle, the outer costal streak "also running through them at the apex. Exp. al. 7-9 m m . Hind wings pale greyish, with a slight brassy sheen ; cilia very pale grey. Abdomen shining pale brownish ochreous. Legs: hind tibia? hairy above ; whitish. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 6 III.-12 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Four specimens. |