NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 57 



Gen. Schoenobiodes nov. 



Type, S. striata. 



Proboscis aborted and small ; palpi oblique, rather roughly scaled and 

 reaching to about vertex of head ; maxillary palpi nearly filiform ; frons with 

 rounded prominence ; antennae of female almost simple, with tuft of scales 

 on basal joint ; anal tuft rather large. Forewing narrow, the costa arched, the 

 apex produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved ; the cell about two- 

 thirds length of wing ; vein 3 from well before angle ; 4. 5 from angle ; the dis- 

 cocellulars angkd ; 6, 7 strongly stalked from below upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 the discocellulars angled ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 7 strongly anastomosing with 8. 



Schoenobiodes striata. 



Acara striata Sc\m\iz, Phil. Journ. Sci. ii. p. 308. pi. 1. f. 11 (1907). 

 Philippines, Manila. 



Gen. Balaenifrons. 



Type. 

 Balaenifrons Hmpsn., Moths Ind. iv. p. 9 (1896) ...... homopteridia 



Proboscis short arising with the filiform two-jointed maxillary palpi from 

 the enormous conical smoothly scaled frontal prominence, which is grooved 

 below, well in front of the labial palpi which are upturned in front of the 

 prominence and smoothly scaled ; antennae of male almost simple. Forewing 

 with the costa arched, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; the discocellulars 

 curved ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from 

 cell, the latter curved. Hindwing with the lower end of cell produced ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 well separated ; the discocellulars angled ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 connected 

 with 8 by an oblique bar ; the retinaculum bar-shaped in male, the frenulum of 

 female single. 



(1) t Balaenifrons haematographa n. sp. 



(J. Golden yellow ; head, thorax and abdomen with crimson mi.xed ; palpi 

 tinged with fuscous. Forewing with five ill-defined waved crimson lines with 

 black marks suffused with silvery scales on them at costa except the subterminal 

 line ; the antemedial and medial lines confluent in the cell, the postmedial line 

 incurved at discal fold and bent inwards below vein 3, the subterminal 

 line bent outwards to the margin and interrupted at vein 3. Hmdwing semi- 

 hyaline ochreous, the terminal area suffused with brown with a purplish crimson 

 patch on it below vein 3 with two yellow marks on it at vein 2. 



?. Forewing without the black marks on the lines at costa ; hindwing with 

 the terminal area suffused with crimson except towards tornus, 



Solomon Is., Bougainville I. (Meek), 2 3 type ; Queensland, Cedar Bay, 

 Cooktown (Meek), 1 ?, Geraldton (Meek), o^ ? m coll. Rothschild. Exp. cJ 22, 

 9 28 mill. 



