( :iS'-i ) 



sjiot round and large, black, i-onuected above with a black costal s^pot ; a broad 

 black fascia from costa at three-fourths, endiusf at vein 2 ; its inner edge sinuous, 

 with a fulvous margin and line of dark dots on veins ; its outer edge strongly angled 

 at vein 4, then excised, margined with paler straw-colour; a black blotch from its 

 angle to hindmargin ; fringe straw-colour. 



Hiiidwings : with two black spots on inner margin, an indistinct antemedian 

 line, small cell-spot, and blotched submarginal fascia, which is narrowed from middle 

 to anal angle. 



Underside similar, but with no fulvous suffusion. ?"ace and [lalpi straw-colour; 

 palpi black on sides; head and thora.v fuhDUs-tinged ; abdomen straw-colour, with 

 black dorsal stripe ; metathoracic tuft black. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One 6 from South .lava. 1891, l.idU feet (Fruhstorfer). 



Plectoneura gen. nov. 



Foreiinngs : with costa slightly curved ; apex produced, but blunt ; hindmargin 

 obliquely curved. 



Hindivincjs : with the inner margin lengthened, the hindmargin bluntly elbowed 

 at vein 4, straight or nearly so on either side. 



Antennae of J subdentate, ciliated ; palpi ujiturned and erect in front of face, 

 third joint small ; tongue present ; hind tibiae not thickened, with four spurs; fore- 

 wings without fovea ; hindwiugs with frenulum. 



Neurution : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular straight ; first 

 median at two-thirds, second and third from lower angle of cell ; lower radial from 

 middle of discocellular, upper from upper angle ; all five subcostals stalked from some 

 way before end ; the costal forked towards costa, and the first subcostal anastomosing 

 with the lower fork ; the submedian thickened and stronglj' sinuous near base. 

 Hindwings with first subcostal from considerably before top end of cell. 



Type : Plectoneura albida sp. nov. 



This genus is related to Lencetaera, but is sufficiently distinguished by the 

 neuration of the forewing.s. 



I'll. Plectoueiira albida sji. nox. 



Fwewinrja : milk-white, sparsely sprinkled with black scales ; costa ochreous ; lines 

 faintly ochreous ; first at one-third, angled below costa; second at four-fifths, parallel 

 to hindmargin, regularly dentate ; cell-spot black, ringed with ochreous ; a narrow 

 grey marginal blotch from below apex to middle of margin ; fringe greyish ochreous. 



Hin<lii:inf/ff. similar, without the first line. 



Palpi and face deep red-brown ; collar dull greyi.sh ; thorax and abdomen white, 

 fuscous-speckled. Underside white, suffused with reddish yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One cT from Jloroka, I'ritish New (iuinea. 



Subfamily ABEAXINAE. 



lo2. Abraxas nigriclathrata sp. no\-. 

 Foreivings : white ; the costa black, broadening to the apex ; a black sjiot at base 

 and a smaller one at edge of fovea ; first line from costa at one-third to inner margin 



