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157. Capotena albotessellata spec, no v. 



c?. Head dark reddish brown ; oollur orunge-brown ; thorax red-brown, with 

 metatliorax edged fine]}' with white; alidomen grey. Primary red-browu, extreme 

 base white ; a wliite streak along the fold to the tornns, where there is a white 

 patch ; two white outwardly oblique nearly parallel lines, the inner one straight 

 from the costa near the base, the outer one from a third from the apex, angled at 

 vein 4, where it curves back into the white fold streak ; termen finely white ; a 

 dark dot at the reniform. Fringe white at apex, brown below. Secondary dark 

 grey, pale between veins la and 2. 



? . Like the male, but darker. 



Expanse : S o2, ? 4.5 mm. 



I/ab. The type is in my collection from Babooni, where it was taken in 

 September ; I have other specimens from Dinawa, where the species occurred 

 from May to July. 



Sphingiforma gen. nov. 



Differs from Capotena in the third segment of the palpi being long. 

 Neuration : primary, veins 6 and 7 from the areole ; a bar from 7 to 10 to form 

 the areole ; 8, 9 and 10 stalked from beyond the areole. Secondary with two 

 internal veins; cell very long, deeply excavated, especially in the male ; veins 3, 4 

 and 5 in the male not stalked as usual, but given off together from the common 

 origin, as in anastomosis ; in tlie female they are stalked as usual ; 6 and 7 joined 

 by a short bar ; wing excavated in male beyond vein 3 to near the toruus. 



Type : Sphingiforma pratti B.-B. 



158. Sphingiforma pratti spec. nov. 



S- Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brownish grey, the latter with anal 

 segment pale lavender-grey ; the genital organs have long lateral whitish 

 retractible tufts. Primary lilac-grey, dull and dark for the basal half, paler 

 for the outer half ; the whole of the wing is finely irrorated with blackish ; a 

 trace of a dark medial line; a dark point in the cell; beyond this a dark, nearly 

 quadrangular costal spot ; a subterminal row of dark points. Secondary dark grey. 



? . Similar in colour to the male, but the primary has an irregular oblique dark 

 basal line ; a broad oblique dark median band, angled outwards about vein \a, and 

 reaching the termen above the tornns — this stripe is very broad and dark in the 

 radial area ; a broad obli(iue baud from the costal spot bent round about vein 4 to 

 meet the median band; a short waved dark oblique stripe from in front of the apex. 



Expanse : S 58, ? 52 mm. 



Hah. The type is in my collection from Dinawa, where it was taken in 

 September; other specimens from Ekeikei in January. 



Parelydna gen. nov. 



Differs from Pseudeli/rliia in the third segment of the palpi being moderately 

 long, in the abdomen of the male being short ; the tibiae have no tufts of long hair ; 

 the midtibiae have one jiair and the hindtibiae two pairs of spurs ; veins 2 and 5 

 of the secondary from close to the lower angle ; veins 3 and 4 stalked. The primary 

 is broad, expanding considerably near the termen. The secondary is ample, has the 

 apex sharply angled, is excised sliglitly below it, and has a waved termen. 



Type : Parelt/dna mirabilis B,-B, 



