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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIINCE AND CRAMBINCE. 947 fascia on costal area not reaching the apex; a white fascia base below cell to middle of wing, with black on its upper edge, continued as a white streak on vein 1, and emitting an angled white mark to middle of inner margin; a black-edged oblique white band from below apex, sending a sagittate white mark to lower angle of cell, then angled outwards to outer angle; a white marginal band and black marginal line ; the cilia white, olive at base. Hind wing pure white, with fine black marginal line. Hab. Sao Paulo ; Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 26 mm.1 (29)fPLATYTES ENDOCHALYBELLA, n. Sp. cf . Head and collar brown; thorax and abdomen golden bronze. Fore wing dark vinous brown; the inner area golden bronze, with two small brown and white lunules at middle; a pale white-edged somewhat triangular mark beyond lower angle of cell; a white marginal band with dentate inner edge not reaching inner margin. Hind wing pale ; the apical area tinged with fuscous ; traces of a waved fuscous submarginal line. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 26 mm. (30)fPLATYTES PENTADACTYLUS, Zell. Mon. Chil. & Cramb. p. 38. New Zealand; Tasmania. "fAquita claviferella, Wlk. xxxv. 1765. fAphomia strigosa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 398, pi. 43. f. 10. (31)fPLATYTES ICTERICALIS, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 876, pi. f. 16. Poona. (32)tPLATYTES FUSCIVENALIS, n. Sp. Ochreous. Fore wings with the veins streaked with brown ; an obsolescent, bisinuate, very oblique leaden-coloured antemedial line; two leaden-coloured discocellular specks; a postmedial leaden-coloured line, very oblique, from costa to vein 6, then waved and obsolescent; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing pale ochreous, with dark marginal specks from apex to vein 3. Hab. Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 18 mm. (33)tPLATYTES PLUMBEOLINEALIS, n. sp. Differs from fuscivenalis in being uniform ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines prominently silvery, oblique from costa to above middle, then waved and nearly erect to inner margin. Hind wing with traces of submarginal line. Some specimens have the fore wing strongly suffused with leaden grey before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial lines. Hab. Punjab ; Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 18 mm. (34) PLATYTES CERUSELLA, Schiff. Europe. |