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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF ICHXEU- 

 MONID.E FROM THE ISLAND OF ARU.* 



By p. Cameron. 



(Communicated by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 



The two species described here, were sent to me by Mr. Walter 

 W. Froggatt. 



CRYPTIN.E. 



SUVALATA TRANSVERSA, Sp.M. 



Jilack, shining, the eighth to thirteenth antennal joints white; 

 face, clypeus, labruni, mandibles except the teetli, the inner orbits 

 to the end of the vertex, the line slightly widened on the upper 

 half, the outer from shortly below the middle, malar space, palpi, 

 a longish conical line on the middle of pronotum, the narrowed 

 end at the apex, tegulee except at apex, tubercles, two lines on 

 middle of mesonotum, straight on outer, rounded on inner side, a 

 mark, almost co^'ering the scutellum, rounded at base and apex, 

 slightly narrowed at the former, a large mark, twice longer than 

 wide, commencing a little above the spines, rounded above, 

 slightly oblique below, the inner side straighter than the outer, a 

 narrow longish line in the centre of the base of the propleurit, a 

 broad mark on the lower half of the mesopleurse, roundly dilated 

 above, the apex roundly narrowed, a squarish mark under the 

 hind wings, a triangular large mark on the sides of the first and 

 longish lines on the sides of the others, extending from the outer 

 edge to near the middle (the last segment immaculate); and the 

 ventral broadly yellow. Four front legs whitish-yellow, middle 

 femora fulvous; fore-femora, tibije and basal three-fourths of 

 metatarsus, fuscous, the apical two joints black, the middle legs 

 less distinctly with the same parts lined with fuscous; hind coxae 

 and trochanters white; an irregular conical mark on the outer 

 side at the base, a large irregular 4-pronged one on the apex and 

 the inner side broadly in the middle of the hind coxse, the base of 



* In some works, e.g., the Botany of the Voyage of the Challenger, the 

 name is spelled " Aroo." 



