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being filled in from before the reuiform (which is darkly outliued) with pale 

 rusty brown ; a trace of a darkly spotted interrupted subterminal line, roughly 

 parallel with the preceding one ; termen with black dots. Secondary greyish, 

 with a distinct dark postmediaii line, angled at vein 6, followed by an indefinite 

 darker line of shading ; termen darkly pointed. 



Expanse, 22 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, March. 



Type in the Tring Musenm. 



217. Moscha modesta spec. nov. 



<?. Head, thorax, and abdomen oclireous grey. Primary ochreons grey, with 

 a slight greenish shade; a dark interrupted antemedian line from a costal sjjot; 

 an olive-brown postmedian line, broad and dark below the costa ; a subapical 

 costal olive-brown patch ; a trace of a pale subtenninal irregular line ; termeu 

 dark for the apical half; reniform blackish. Secondary darkish grey, with a dark 

 median line. 



Expanse, 18 mm. 



Hab. Biagi, Blambart^ River. 



Type in my collection. 



SATURNIIDAE. 

 218. Opodipthera strigata spec. nov. 



cJ. Head and face orange-colour ; collar broadly white-edged finely above, 

 below with chocolate-brown, with a deep crimson spot on each shoulder ; thorax and 

 abdomen yellowish buff. Both wings yellowish buff, with an obliijue slightly waved 

 brownish mauve line from well in front of the apex through each wing, and a small 

 ocellus at the end of the cells, having a fine yellow pupil ringed alternately with 

 mauve, yellow, and mauve. Primary with a whitish subapical small costal patch 

 with a black wedge-shaped centre ; base of costa broadly purplish for a fifth. 

 Secondary with a waved mauve postmedian line, in addition to the oblique line 

 mentioned before ; a series of dark mauve spearhead marks in the postmedian area. 



Expanse, 72 mm. 



Hab. Mafalu, 0000 ft., August. 



Type in my collection. 



CHALCOSIIDAE. 

 219. Eusphalera semiflava ab. subflava nov. 



S. Head and thorax steel-blue ; abdomen black above ; veutral surface straw- 

 colour. Primary very restricted black, with steel-blue scales at base, basal two- 

 thirds chrome-yellow ; apical third black with steel-blue scales between the veins 

 near the apex. Secondary with extreme base narrowly black ; rest of wing canary- 

 yellow, becoming deeper at its edge. Termeu broadly black, tapering down 

 narrowly at the angle. Under surface similar to upper surface, but with a steel-blue 

 spot at the apex of the secondary. 



Expanse, .50 mm. 



Ilab. Ekeikei, March and April. 



Type in my collection. 



I think the neuration of this genus must be very inconstant, as in my specimens 

 oi semiflava and subjlam vein 11 does not anastomose with 12, but is quite free. 



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