( :^74 ) 



with a minute black dot at eacli end ; an obscure curved greyish central shade ; 

 exterior line grey, with black dots on veins, nearer hindmargin than usual, followed 

 by a cloudy grey shade forming blotches at anal angle, below middle, and apex ; a 

 marginal giey shade ; a double marginal row of dots, those on veins smaller than 

 those between ; fringe pale ochreous. 



Hindrnngs : like forewings ; the cell-spot small, oval, of raised white scales. 



Face and palpi rosy brown, beneath whitish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 ochreous; sides of abdomen ro.sy towards base. Underside ochreous, much snft'used 

 with rosy ; costa of forewings marked wilji fuscous. 



98. Organopoda olivescens sp. nov. 



Foreirivf/s : dull reddish, almost wholly suffused with olive-fuscous scales; the 

 costa, base, hindmargin, and all the lines olive-fuscous : fir.st at one-fourth, curved and 

 wavv ; central shade diffuse, outwardly denticulate; exterior line irregularly denti- 

 culate, neai'er the hindmargin than usual; submarginal line edged outwardly with 

 paler reddish ; fringe reddish, with a fuscous line along hindmargin, interrupted al 

 ends of veins bv slightlv l>aler dots; extreme costa pale ochreous; cell-spot large, 

 blackish. 



Hindwhujs : the same. 



I'alpi bright rosy, pale beneath ; face deep red-brown ; thorax and abdomen liki' 

 wings. I'nderside of forewings wholly dull ro.sy, with an ochreous subcostal .streak 

 and the inner margin whitish ; of hindwings yellowish ochreous. tinged with rosy. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



Two c?t? from Cedar Bay, Cooktown, (Jueeusland (A. S. Meek). 



Smaller and duller than either of the Indian sjjecies. 



99. Perixera confiniscripta >\>. nov. 



Forewintjs : ochreous, finely irrorated with rosy; tirst line marked by three vein- 

 dots placed in an oblique line outwards ; cell-spot small, blackish, followed by an 

 obscure obliquely curved central .shade ; outer line close to hindmargin, taking the 

 place of the submarginal, marked by blackish dots on veins, that on vein .) large and 

 cloudy and strongly displaced towards base; a row of dark marginal dots between the 

 veins ; fringe ochreous. 



Ilindwine/s : similar. 



I'nderside jialer ; costal half of forewing suffu>ed with ro.sy towards base. Palpi 

 ochreous below, bright rosy above ; face ochreous below, daik fuscous above ; thorax 

 and abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse of wings: 22 mm. 



One 6 from the Tenimber Islands, ,luly 1892 (W. Doherty). 



Distinguished by the position of the outer line, as well as by its much 

 smaller size. 



11 "I. Perixera (?) eriibescens sji. nov. 



Foreiuinfjs : wholly dull rosy red; with the cell-spot, a central shade, and the 

 outer line slightly deejjer red; the latter marked slightly with dots at the veins; 

 fringe pale, with no trace of dark marginal .spots or line. 



Hindwiwjs : the same, the cell-spot minute, white, an<l oval. 



