( ^l>5 ) 



middle of tlie discocellnlars, 6 and 7 from the u|i|i('r angle. AViurjs: rosfa nearly 

 straight, depressed at the ajjex ; apex acute, teniieii very sliglitly exeavateil to 

 vein 5, prodiieed outwards at 4 to form a slight angle from whence it recedes ni]iiilly 

 to the tornus ; wing broad, secondaries comparatively small, terraen evenly rounded 

 to vein 2, where there is a slight angle. Tcrmen of both wings slightly crennlate. 

 Type : Lasiosceles pt-atti B-B. 



:37. Lasiosceles pratti spec. nov. 



6. Head and thorax red-brown lined witji white; the collar has two lines 

 right across, and is tipped with white ; the jiatagiae are edged with white, and have a 

 central white line; abdomen orange-yellow, proximal tuft dark red-brown. Primary 

 reddish browvi, with the space below the coll ])ale ochreons greyish ; all the veins 

 are white, very ])rorainently so beyond tlie cell, the three main veins being pale 

 ochreons greyish uj) to that point : the basal C(diular and costal area is tesselated 

 with white lines; below the cell tlu're is a short deep red dash edged with white, 

 followed by a curved white streak edged with deej) reddish ; the renifomi is edged 

 with white, its internal edge being a broudish sfraiglit white dash; above it is a 

 short costal streak ; jiostmedial line curved broadly white, snliterminal line straight 

 oblique, broadly white from the apex well beyond the tornus ; termen finely wiiite, 

 between this and the obli(jue stripe there is a dentate white line from vein 5 to the 

 tornus. Secondary jiale orange-brown, the base almost yellowish orange. 



¥. Like the male, bnt the secondaries are darker. 



Expanse : cj 44, ? 4(5 mm. 



Hub. The type is in my collection. The species occurs at Ekeikei an<l tin- 

 Kebea Range in March and April, and in duly. 



Reticulana gen. nov. 



Palpi with second joint heavily scaled, long, reaching above the vertex, third 

 joint long, smooth; antennae minutely and finely ciliate in both sexes; all the 

 legs thickly scaled to the end of the tibiae ; head with short projecting tufts from 

 the base of the antennae ; collar with a high erect tuft ; abdomen tufted on the 

 proximal segment. Neuration : Primary with vein 2 from the basal side of the centre 

 of cell, 3 and 4 below the angle, o from the angle, from below the upper angle, 

 7 from 8 at the end of the areole ; 8 and 9 stalked, given oif from 10 by a bar to 

 form the areole; 11 from basal side of the centre of cell. Secondary with 3 and 4 

 from the angle, 5 from just below the centre, C and 7 from the angle. Costa 

 straight, slightly dei)ressed at apex ; termen receding very gradually to the tornus. 



Type : Rdicidana, costiliitca B.-B. 



38. Reticulana costilinea spec. nov. 



c??. Head blackish brown, with white tufts from the antennae; thorax 

 blackish brown, collar and patagiae edged broadly with whitish grey; mctathoracic 

 tuft small, edged with grey; abdomen dark greyisii, with jiroximal tuft on dorsum. 

 Primary dark grey, costa blackish with a series of short oblique whitish daslies, 

 a small snbbasal blackish spot ringed with whitish grey, a blackish very irregular 

 median oblique area edged and invaded by whitish grey lines, a posterior series of 

 blackish spots interrupted by the vein-space of vein 2, edged with whitish grey, 

 a snbterminal smaller series, and a complete terminal series of similar spots : 



