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121. Trichoptya nigropunctata spec, uov., and ab. pallida ali, uov., and 

 subsp. mag'na subsp. nov. 



Forewing : |1inkl^h ochreous dusted with grey and olive; tlie ground colour 

 rather darker in the .-? ; the lines formed of olive scales, sliglit and diffuse, indented 

 on the folds, the outer lunulate-dentate ; a black speck at base of cell and at its 

 end ; subtenuinal line indented on the folds, Innulate-edgcd iuternallj", the Innulcs 

 filled up with deep black in the ?, those on the folds largest, starting from a 

 blackish cloud at apex and ending in another at anal angle ; the terminal area 

 beyond it partially or entirely grey ; in the c? only the black sjiots on the folds are 

 conspicuous, the others being less visible, and the blackish ajjical cloud is present ; 

 terminal spots black, larger in the ? ; fringe concolorous with ground colour of 

 wing. 



Il'imlwinq : of <? blackish fuscous, of ? paler ; the costal tuft of S fuscous. 



In both sexes the ground colour when worn becomes bone-colour ; but good 

 specimens occur with the ground colour pale ochreous and the subterminal bhu'k 

 spots well marked = ab. pallida ab. nov. 



Common throughout the Solomon Islands, the type form occurring in Gnadal- 

 canar and Bougainville, while the aberration comes from Hendova, Isabel Islaml, 

 and Guizo Island ; this form also occurs in Kei Island. 



A form from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, subsp. magna subsp. nov., is larger ; 

 the subterminal line without any black a])ical streak, and with three small black 

 spots beyond cell, and one on the submediiin fold ; the hiudwing deep black ; of 

 this form only 3 S arc yet known. 



122. Trichoptya subspurcata sjiec. nov. 



Resembles nigropunctata from the Solomons in size and coloration, but the 

 three lines are not waved and indented on the folds, as in that species, but straight 

 and faintly outcnrved across wing ; the very slightly darker terminal area is edged 

 above by a distinct broad black apical mark, and by a single black spot on vein ; 

 a black spot at base and another at end of cell. 



Underside of both wings suffused throughout with coarse olive fuscous on an 

 ochreous yellow ground ; the hindwing without cell-spot and outer line. 



3 ? ? from St. Aignan, October 18i)7 (Meek). 



Genus Sillophora gen. uov. 



Distinguished from Trichoptya by the costa ot hindwing being folded over 

 beneath to form a flattened pleat, the upperside coatainiog at base of costa a 

 small pouch from which the long hairs of the costal tuft are protruded. Type i 

 S. bimaciilatd spec. nov. 



12:5. Sillophora bimaculata spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale fawn-colour dusted with olive, with a strong violaceous tint 

 except along costa and beyond subterminal line ; lines oblique inwards, very 

 indistinct, and only sliown by slightly darker scaling ; the terminal area olive 

 grey; the subterminal line before it being shown only by a black triangular mark 

 lying across vein 5, and a larger one extending between veins 1 ami :i ; a black 

 cell-dot and row of black terminal spots ; fringe concolorous. 



