. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ETJBLEMMA. 65 ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing pale purplish grey; subbasal line represented by black points on costa and in cell; antemedial line blackish at costa, then indistinct, incurved in cell and excurved below it; slight dark points in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; medial line represented by double oblique blackish striae from costa and a faint double oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line slight, excurved be


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ETJBLEMMA. 65 ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing pale purplish grey; subbasal line represented by black points on costa and in cell; antemedial line blackish at costa, then indistinct, incurved in cell and excurved below it; slight dark points in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; medial line represented by double oblique blackish striae from costa and a faint double oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line slight, excurved below costa, then oblique, dentate and produced to black points on the veins, some rufous. Fig. 28.—EiMemma commoda, S- I- suffusion beyond it on costal area with some whitish points on costa and a minute wedge-shaped whitish mark below the costa; a subterminal series of black points; a punctiform rufous terminal line ; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base. Hind wing pale purplish grey ; a dark discoidal point; a band of rufous and yellow irroration from discal fold to inner margin before the slight dentate postmedial line produced to black points on the veins ; traces of a pale subterminal line with series of black points on its outer edge and black bar before it from vein 2 to tornus ; a punctiform rufous terminal line ; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base, the underside slightly irrorated with black, the basal area whitish with some blackish marks on it, an indistinct double minutely waved medial line with black marks on it at costa and towards tornus, a minutely dentate postmedial line produced to black points on the veins, a terminal series of black points. Hah. Singapore {Ridley), 1 $ ; Boeneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 S • i^-^T- 22 millim. 5075. Eublemma digona, n. sp. (Plate CL, fig. 21.) 5 . Head and tegulse rufous ; thorax and abdomen grey tinged with rufous; pectus whitish ; legs red-brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing


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