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and two-thirds, most distinct in the V ; from the groon intervals lines and bands of 

 pale green scales run across the wing between and edging the lines, plain only in 

 the ?,the middle space being broad and pale throughout; a submarginal row of 

 green or gre3--greeu spots on veins, and a marginal series of smaller green spots 

 round the black spots, these last showing also in the S ; fringe red-brown flecked 

 with greenish white. 



Hindwing : with the two outer series only jilain, the greenish white speckling 

 being more scattered ; cell-spot small, white. 



Underside whitish ochreous, greyer in forewing, grey-speckled; a grey 

 snbmarginal shade, slight in forewing ; white spot of forewing showing through ; 

 the coloration deeper in the ? . 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi tipped with pale ; abdomen 

 dusted with greenish white ; anal tuft of S ochreous, red beneath ; antennae black 

 and pale ; pectinations in S short and stifi'. 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



4 cJc?, 4 ? ?. 



213. Trochistis vulpina spec. nov. 



Forewing: rufous brown, peppered with blue-grey scales in the J, and with 

 black spots and striae in the ? ; cosfa black-brown ; lines dark brown, all obliqne 

 outwards, from costa at one-fifth, two-fifths, and two-thirds to one-fourth, one-half, 

 and three-fourths of inner margin respectively, the outer line twice bent; in the ? 

 all the lines become black at inner margin ; submarginal line in ? preceded and 

 fcilldwed by a black shade from costa to vein 4, and with one on inner margin before 

 it ; in c? not marked ; marginal spots blue-grey in S, black in ? ; fringe con- 

 colorous ; cell-spot minute, black. 



Hindwing : similar ; the markings much clearer in ¥ ; cell-spot black in a 

 grey ring. 



Underside whitish with a pink tinge and grey-speckled ; apex of forewing 

 rufous ; fringe rufous ; marginal and cell-dots black ; ? with the markings stronger, 

 the fringe deep red. 



Head and palpi deep brown, tips of palpi ochreous ; thorax and abdomen like 

 wings ; abdomen in S sj)eckled with blue-grey, in ? with black; anal segment 

 in 6 with a white black-edged dorsal blotch and the tufts ochreous, the ? with a 

 black blotch and one at base ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs pinkish white ; 

 antennae black, the shaft in cJ annulated with white; the pectination full. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 c?, 1 ?. 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 



214. Gonodela papuensis spec. nov. and ab. densinotata, ochrimixta, 

 albisparsa, and caesiata nov. 



S- I'Ofi'iriiig : fawn-colour, dusted with grey; costa finely dotted dark and 

 yellowish ; lines brown, somewhat indistinct : first at one-fifth, right-angled on 

 subcostal vein ; second at one-half, angled on vein 0, then vertical, parallel to first ; 

 outer at three-fourths, also angled on vein (5, then incurved to two-thirds of inner 

 margin, thick and dark brown, followed by a i)ale and then a dark line, before the 

 dark brown marginal area, the u])per edge of which runs obliquely from angle of 



