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teniiinal joint niiimte ; hind tiljiae of <? swollen, with a pencil of hairs ; jiectus, femora, 

 and base of abdomen hairy ; fovea of forewings present. Hindwings of <? with a 

 ridge of hair beneath along the snbmedian fold. 



Nciu-alioii: forewings, 10 and 11 stalked, and .separating only a little before 

 costa ; 7, 8, 9, stalked. 

 Type : Paradromulia amhi(jua sp. uov. 



70. Paradromulia ambigua sji. nov. 



Forewings: dark fuscous, .speckled with blackish, and varied with ferruginous 

 ochreous ; first line at one-fourth, curved, second at two-thirds, sinuous, marked by 

 dark spots on veins — both very obscure and hidden by the dark fuscous shading ; a 

 large dark cell-spot ; submarginal line dentate, the teeth filled up with dark and tipped 

 with pale ; a row of black dots along hindmargin ; fringe mottled testaceous and 

 fuscous ; veins paler, dotted with fuscous. 



Hindivings : with ba.sal two-thirds dark ; the outer and submarginal line as in 

 forewings ; the margin crenulate, with black basal line ; in the more usual form the 

 marginal area of both wings is more or less ferruginous ochreous, especially above 

 anal angle of forewings, but in some cases the whole wing is dark, with only the pale 

 dots of the submarginal line standing out. 



Underside smoky grey, with large blackish cell-.spots and broad darker marginal 

 band ; the ochreous marginal markings sometimes showing through. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen mottled fuscous and ochreous. 



ah. maculata ab. nov. 

 In this form the ground-colour of both wings is darker, but the anal angle of 

 both is marked by two rounded contiguous blotches of bright i)ale ochreous, the apex 

 of forewings also being pale ochreous; all these jiale patches are shown on the 

 underside. 



ab. rufigrisea ab. nov. 



Forewings reddish ochreous, striated and in parts sufl'used with fuscous; the 

 lines distinct; the costa spotted with black; central fascia between the two lines 

 silvery grey, with dark central shade, the grey on hindwings extending to the base ; 

 apical area of forewing bearing a dark patch. Underside whitish grey, with the other 

 markings as in the type-form. 



Expanse of wings : 44 — 48 mm. 



Six Jc?, two ? ?, of the type-form, two S S of ab. maculata, and a S and ? of 

 ab. rufiyrisea, all from Fergussou Island, November and December. 



Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE. 



Polycrasta gen. nov. 



Forewings: with costa straight, slightly convex before ajiex ; hindmargin 

 oblique, faintly irregular; inner margin convex. 



Hiiulwiiigs: broad; costa and inner margin convex; apex bluntly angled; 

 hindmargin rounded, subcrenulate ; anal angle truncate. 



Abdomen of cJ long ; antennae strongly pectinated, the apex simiile ; palpi stout, 



