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iipenrved, jvnd appressed to face; second joint liaiiv, third sraootli, sliort and bent 

 Ibrwai-ds; tongue well developed; legs long ; hind tibiae with four spurs; base and 

 cell of lx)th wings strongly hairy beneath. 



Neuratimi : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular straight ; 

 first median at one-half, second before end of cell, third from the end; lower 

 radial from slightly above the centre of discocellular, upper from top end of cell; 

 last four subcostals stalked from well before end ; first anastomosing strongly with 

 costal ; all the veins strong and straight. Hindwings with costal approximated to 

 subcostal close to base, then curving away to the apical angle ; first, subcostal con- 

 siderably before end of cell ; no radial ; first median at two-thirds, second before end 

 of cell. 



Type : Folycrasta ocellata sp. nov. 



The genus appears to be a develoimient of Pctdia H.S. The tyi>ical species 

 reminds one su])erficially of the American species of Th>/snnopjji/<i. wilh wliirh il 

 agrees also in having the anal tuft of abdomen whitish in the cJ. 



71. Folycrasta ocellata sp. nov. 



Forewinijs: fuscous, striated witii darker; a ver}' obscure curved shade near 

 base, and a curved thick central shade before middle; the small black cell-spot lying 

 just beyond ; a dark brown line edged internally with dull orange, incurved from 

 apex to anal angle; the marginal area included pale grey, mi.xed with brown, and 

 with traces of a toothed submarginal line through it ; a row of minute black dots at 

 ends of veins ; fringe fuscous. 



Hindwings: browner, with traces of two dark curved central fasciae; cell-spot 

 oval, black, finely edged with yellow; extreme hindmargin from apex to opposite cell 

 yellow ; fringe fuscous, with yellowish basal line. 



Thorax and abdomen concolorous ; the anal tnft white; collar, face, paljii, and 

 antennae darker. Underside didl cinereous brown. 



Ex|)anse of wings: 40 mm. 



One (J from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, April and May. 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 

 72. Azata variegata sp. nov. 



S. Foreivings: yellowish, thickly dusted with dark brown, and more or less 

 suffused with greyish purple ; the lines thick, dark brown ; first at one-fourth, angled 

 below the costa, then oblique to inner margin near base ; second central, oblique, and 

 slightly waved ; third more waved, at three-fonrtlis ; submarginal line distinct only in 

 the lower half ; the purplish suffusion is thickest between the first and second lines, 

 and beyond the third line, the space between the second and third and the ajiical 

 region remaining yellower; fringe mottled dark puriilish and yellowish, with a row of 

 dark lunules at base. 



nimhmwjs : the same, but all the lines thicker, the first wanting. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey, the segments of the abdomen i)aler ; 

 the vertex of head dusted with yellow. Underside paler, thickly dusted with brown, 

 the lines brown ; the hindmargin broadly brown ; forewings with a large ferruginous 

 orange costal lilotch before ajjcx. ? uniformly paler, with the lines finer, the 

 purple suffusion less intense, but embracing the whole wing. 



