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dots at the base. Cln the hindnings the white discal jiatch is about three times the 

 size of that in P. goldlei, aud, unlike in that species, reaches the abdominal margin. 

 Collar and shoulders edged with grey, not \-ellow ; abdominal tuft black above, jjale 

 buff below, not entirely orange, as in goldiei. Underside of abdomen all white, not 

 banded, as in the other species. Terminal joint of palpi shorter. 



Ilab. Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea (W. Doherty, September aud October 

 1892); 1 <J. W- R- 



In this species the second partition of tlie median nervure to the hindwings is of 

 half the length of the lower discocellular veinlet. The antennae are not thickened 

 towards the apex. The forehead is somewhat jiroduced and bears a subcireular ridge. 

 The third joint of the palpi is longer (d) than the forehead is broad. K. J. 



27. Ophthalmis basalis Kothsch. sii. nov. 



Fe.male. — Upperside : forewings diiier from O. niAdatus (^^ ll<.) in having a row 

 of three white subbasal spots instead of two, and in the two central white spots being 

 much larger, that between the lower median and submediau veins having a length of 

 4 and a breadth of 3 millimetres. Hindwings are at once distinguishable ft-om those 

 of all allied forms by the presence of a large white basal area ; this area does not 

 quite reach either the base or the apex of cell between costa and median vein, being 

 here 5 millimetres wide, while between the median vein and abdominal margin it 

 reaches from the base to withiu 5 millimetres of the outer margin at the lower 

 median vein, including a black dot just behind the latter vein. 



Underside shows a faint line connecting the lowest subbasal spot and the lower 

 of the two central spots. Middle of underside of abdomen yellow; otherwise similar 

 to 0. mutatus (Wlk.). Size somewhat larger than that of 0. muiatus (\Mk.). 



Ilab. Mangola, Sulla Islands (Dr. Platen) ; 1 ? . W. K. 



28. Mimeusemia perakana Kothsch. sp. nov. 



?. Differs from J/. albicUia Hamps., Moths of Jndla. II. p. Kii) (18'J1), in the 

 more reddish maroon groimd-colour of forewings, in tlie larger and more ol)lique 

 subbasal white patcli, which is more than twice as broad Ijcfore submedian vein than 

 at the costa ; the two median patches are joined together to form au uninterrupted 

 band. On the hindwings the baso-abdominal area is pure white, while the discal 

 white spot is larger than in albiciim and on the underside is connected witli basal 

 area by a long white streak. Basal black patch on abdomen much extended. 



Ifab. Padang Kengas, Perak ; 1 ? . W. K. 



Agarista serayron H.S. is most nearly related to the species standing under 

 Mimeusemia Butl., and ought to be referred to that genus. Mimeusemia Butl. is 

 scarcely separable from Fhalaenoides Lewin in the present extent of the latter. In 

 the typical species of Mimeusemia, in M. jjersimilis Butl. from Ja]ian, the second 

 jiartition of the median vein to the forewings is decidedly longer than in peslnca 

 Moore and the otlier species. 



Hampson, Molhs of India II. \>. 155 (1894), says of the genus Zalissn ^\'lk. 

 (= Seiuhjra Stretch ace. to Ilampson) that the terminal joint of the palpi is very 

 short, and that the tibiae are without spines. The first character applies only to 

 %. longi])ennis Moore and perhaps some allied species, while in other species, for 



