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abdomen rufous, the last with some blackish irroration. Fore\\ing bright rufous 

 irrorated with black and slightly tinged with purple, the veins with slight pale 

 streaks ; an obscure mark formed by an aggregation of black scales in upper 

 angle of cell and an oblique bar formed by black scales at middle of submedian 

 interspace ; traces of an oblique postmedial line formed by black scales from 

 vein 5 to inner margin ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hindwing ochreous 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, the cilia with a faint purplish line through 

 them from apex to vein 2. Underside reddish ochreous irrorated with dark 

 brown ; forewing tinged with purplish red, the disk suffused with brown, a faint 

 curved blackish postmedial line. 



Hab. Borneo, Kuching, 1 ? type. Exp. 32 mill. 



Gen. Picrogama. 



Type. 



Picrogama lleyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897. p. 91 ....... cotnplana 



Proboscis rather short ; palpi of male short, upturned, thickly scaled ; 

 of female downcurved and extending about twice the length of head ; maxillary 

 palpi slight ; frcns with large tuft of hair ; antennae of male almost simple, 

 the basal joint somewhat dilated. Forewing narrow, the apex rectangular, the 

 termen evenly curved ; the male with the lower part of cell produced, vein 3 

 from well before angle, 5 from above angle ; the discocellulars angkd inward.s 

 above and with a recurrent vein from their angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, & 

 stalked from before the angle, 7 typically from beyond 9 ; 10, 1 1 from cell ; a small 

 glandular swelling at base of costa on underride and the cell clothed with 

 androconia ; the female with veins 4, 5 from angle of cell, Ihe discocellulars 

 incurved. Hindwing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 4, 5 strongly 

 stalked, the discocellulars angled inwards to near base ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 

 7 anastomosing with S. 



Sect. I. Forewing with vein 7 from 8 beyond 9. 

 ( 1 ) Picrogama complana. 



ApJiomia complana Feld., Seis. Xov. pi. 137. i. 6 (1874). 



Picrogama anticosma Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897. p. 92 ; Hmpsn., Bom. Mini. viii. p. 445. pi. 53. 

 ft. 10. 11. 



Celebes, Sangir I.; Amboina ; Dutch N. Guinea; D'Entrecasteanz Is., 

 Goodenough I., Fergusson I. ; Louisiade Is., St. Aignan I. 



Sect. II. Forewing with vein 7 from 8 before 9. 



(2) t Picrogama albiJascialis n. sp. 

 o. Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; abdomen deep golden 

 yellow. Forewing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown, 

 a purplish red tinge in lower part of cell and below vein 6 to termen ; the veins 

 of costal area v/ith chocolate-brown streaks and two slight purple-brown streaks 

 in the cell ; a white fascia from base through the upper part of cell to apex 

 broken up by the dark streaks on the veins ; small elongate elliptical purple- 

 brown spots in upper part of cell ; an aggregate of dark scales at origin of vein 

 2 ; an obliquely curved postmedial shade formed by aggregations of dark scales 



