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299. Dierna lilacea spec. nov. 



c?. Head and thorax very pale ciunamon-brown ; both wings pale cinnamon- 

 brown ; primaries with a dotible fine oblique dark postmedial line, the narrow 

 interspace filled in with lilac-grey and with a broad indefinite edging of lilac-grey ; 

 a dark point in the cell, followed at the end of the cell by a white point. Secondary 

 with the medial donble lino as that in the primary, and with a similar lilac-grey 

 edging. 



Expanse : 46 mm. 



Ilab. Ekeikei, January ; Diuawa, September. 



Type in my collection. 



Tornosinus gon. nov. 



Palpus with second segment long, reaching above the vertex, scaled, fringed 

 above and below with hair; third segment minute, almost globular, fringed with a 

 long tnft of hairs above ; antennae simple ; legs with fore pair having femora and 

 tibiae heavily fringed with hair, mid and hind pair slightly fringed. Neuration : 

 Primary with vein 2 from middle of the cell, 3 from below the angle, 4 from the 

 angle, o from just above the angle, (i from below the upper angle, 7 from the 

 angle, 8, 9 and 10 stalked, 11 from near base of cell ; cell very short. Secondary 

 with two internal veins ; cell short ; 2 from near base of cell, 3 and 4 from lower 

 angle, .5 from directly above it, 6 and 7 from upper angle, 8 curved strongly upwards 

 towards costa and running parallel therewith. Primary with tornns deeply excavated 

 from vein 3 to middle of inner margin ; a heavy tuft of long hair on the underside 

 of inner margin. Secondary moderately ample; terraen slightly flattened ; tornns 

 shortened, with margin flattened from vein 3. 



Type : Tornosinus riiger B-B. 



3ii0. Tornosinus niger spec. nov. 



S . Tiie whole insect is sooty black. Primary inclined to greyish beyond the 

 jiostmedial area, a short subterniiual whitish dotted line from in front of the apex, 

 a round white spot at the end of the cell ; termeu darkly dotted ; fringes white at 

 the excavated part of the tornns ; tornus deeply excavated from vein 3. 



Expanse : 34 mm. 



Hub. Aroa River, March. 



Type in Tring Museum. 



Rectangulipalpus gen. nov. 



Palpus with second segment porrect, long, reaching above the vertex, heavily 

 scaled, fringed with long hair; third segment long, at right angles to second, 

 heavily fringed with lung liair. Antennae very fine, minutely ciliate ; head tufted ; 

 legs with forefemora and tibiae scaled, a rose-shaped tuft of long spatnlate scales 

 from the base of the secondary below. Neuration : Primary with vein 4 from the 

 angle, 3 and Ti from close to the angle, from tiie upper angle, 7, 8, 9 and lU 

 stalked. Secondary with two internal veins, 3, 4 and S from close to the lower 

 angle, G and 7 from the uj)per angle. Costa depressed at base, then evenly curved, 

 with a short tuft of hair at the top of the depression on its underside ; wing very 

 briiad, termen evenly rounded from a subacute apex. Secondary less ample, with 

 terraen somewhat flattened ; a tnft of hair from the upper side of the costa. 



Type : Rectangidipalpus mecid B-B. 



