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11. Belonoptera arachnidia spec. uov. 



Foir/t'int/ : pale grey, tliiokly cnvered witli minute irregular darker ri^ticulatioiis ; 

 the lines and shading red-brown ; basal fonrth rather darker, edged by a very 

 irregnlar curved line, followed by an ei[nally irregular median line ; from nearly 

 two-thirds of costa an oblique thick line forked at costa runs to middle of inner 

 margin ; s[)ace beyond shaded with red-brown, narrowly above, but reaching outer 

 margin at vein 2, forming roughly an A-shaped mark ; a black subcostal streak in 

 enter fourth running out into apex, from the base of which a red-brown streak 

 forked at origin runs to outer margin at vein 4 ; all the paler intervals filled with 

 fine cobweblike markings ; fringe dark brown with paler tips. 



Hindwinq : with a long white streak, narrow at middle, along the discoocllular ; 

 the sj)ace beyond it rather deeper suffused ; all the intervals filled with cobweblikc 

 irregular markings ; the apex and some streaks before it darker. 



Underside like upper, but the ground colour paler and the markings clearer. 



Head, shoulders, and basal half of patagia reddish brown ; tips of patagia, the 

 thorax, and two basal segments of abdomen pale grey ; rest of dorsum brownish 

 red. 



Expanse of wings : 82 mm. 



1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, 8.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet season 

 (Ockenden). 



12. Brixia australiae spec. nov. 



Forewinq : pale greyish fawn-colour in basal half, reddish fawn in the outer; 

 basal area traversed by two faint brownish bands, the paler intervals forming bands 

 of the same width each with a dark line through it ; a similar pale band is visible 

 at two-thirds of inner margin, hardly reaching midwing ; a large whitish triangular 

 costal blotch before apex, with the veins and striae across it fawn-colour ; a faint 

 pinkish mark at apex before fringe, and a black spot on margin above vein 5 ; fringe 

 with basal half dark leaden brown, ajiical paler. 



Hindwiiig : with basal area pale lilac-grey, with darker striations ; rest of 

 wing reddish fawn, showing traces of a paler dark-centred postmedian band ; fringe 

 wholly fawn-coloured. 



Underside with the dark and pale bands more clearly defined, the dark markings 

 deeper brown, and the striae more conspicuous ; black spot of forewing large, the 

 apical mark above it white. 



Head and shoulders deep chestnut ; thorax and abdomen pale lilac-grey, the 

 anal half of dorsum browner, the anal extremity fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



2 ? ? from Yeppoon, October 1890 (Barnard coll.). 



13. Brixia comparalis spec. nov. 



Forewing : very much like disparalis Hmpsn. from Ceylon, but the subapical 

 costal blotch is broadly triangular, not .attenuated, marked with two small brown 

 dots on the costal edge, which is tinged with yellow, the white a[)ical portion with 

 faint brownish reticulation ; a slij;ht white streak before fringe from costa to 

 vein 6 ; basal and outer areas paler fawn-colour than the central, which is broadly 

 olive-brown on costa, including the space between the two white marks ; narrowing 

 off to a diffuse smoky brown obli(iue band at miildle of inner margin ; a lilack spot 



