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51. Ptochopliyle notata sp. nov. 



ForeiuiTigs: yellowish ochreous, dusted witli orange speckles, the markings dull 

 red-brown ; costs broadly brown ; a thick vertical fascia near base, enlarged along 

 the median and submedian veins ; cell-spot large, round, white, edged with ochreous, 

 then with dark brown, followed by a dark brown curved central line, incurved below 

 the median, and forming lunules between the veins ; exterior line similar, thickened 

 below costa and above inner margin, and approximated to central line below the 

 median; submarginal line interrupted, blotchy; all the veins in the lower half 

 of wing dark brown ; marginal line dark brown ; fringe ochreous. 



UindimiKjs: the same, but with only one line beyond the discal spot, whieh 

 is strongly outcurved in middle ; marginal area above anal angle wholly red-brown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen coucolorous ; face darker. Underside paler, with 

 the markings all dull pinkish. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One 6 from Fergusson Island. 



52. Ptochophyle volutaria innotata subsp. nov. 

 Along with four specimens of P. volutaria Swinh., taken in Fergusson Island 

 in the mouths September to December, is a <? from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, taken 

 in April, which is of the usual olive-ochreous ground-colour, thickly dusted with pink 

 scales, but without any markings whatever, except the oblique line from costa that 

 forms the outside edge of the usual central fascia ; fringes paler, without any trace 

 of darker marginal line ; cell-spots obsolete. 



53. Ptychopoda (? j sericeipennis sp. nov. 



Foreimigs: silky ochreous, with numerous rufous ochreous obscure wavy Unes, 

 two submarginal being the most distinct; the margin itself rufous; a small dark 

 discal spot ; fringe long and .silky, with minute dark dots at base at the ends of the 

 veins. 



Hindivings : the same, with the cell-spot hardly visible. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ochreous ; face reddish. I'nderside the 

 same, with the markings still more obscure. 



Expanse of wings : 12 mm. 



One ? from Fergusson Lsland, October. 



Subfamily TKICHOPTERYGINAE. 

 Pardodes gen. nov. 



(?. Fwewbvjs : with costa straight or faintly sinuous, convex before apex, which 

 is strongly rounded ; hindmargin strongly curved. 



Ilindwings : narrow, with round hindmargin. 



Abdomen long, with the claspers very long and exserted ; eyes large ; antennae 

 thick, llattened ; palpi twice as long as head, the second joint inclined upwards, 

 the third poiTect ; tongue ill-developed ; legs long; hind tibiae with four spurs. 



Neurativn: forewings, cell half as long as wing; finst median at two-thirds, 

 second close before end, third from end of cell ; lower radial from centre of disco- 

 cellular, upper from top angle of cell ; first two and last three subcostals stalked, the 

 second anastomosing with stem of the other three, forming a single areole ; the 

 fourth and fifth cui-ved downwards in middle. Hindwings with discocellular 



