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77. Semiothisa isospila Meyr. 



Macaria isospila jNIeyr., Tr. E. S. (1889), p. 501 (S). 



Mr. Meyrick described the species from a single ?. The c? is darker, with the 

 strigulations denser, and all the lines thicker and more distinct; in particular 

 the exterior line below the angulation is distinctly double, and much more oblique. 



iSeveral examples from Fergussou Island, September. Jleyrick's specimen was 

 (presumalily) from Port JSIoresby. 



Subfamily EXNO.MIXAK. 



78. Corymica oblongimacula sp. nov. 



Fm'eiviiifjs : bright yellow, the costa dotted with brown, at the base with a 

 shallow brown and grey patch ; a dull rust -red triangular patch, on hindmargin from 

 apex, where it is deep brown, to near the anal angle ; its apex connected by a 

 ferruginous tinge with a similar-coloured sliade at base of costa ; no trace of cross 

 lines; on the inner margin the ordinary brown patches are connected so as to form 

 an olilong patch with an oval yellow centre. 



Hindivings ; with a rust-red cell-spot and a postmedian curved line of similar 

 spots, those on costa and iimer margin being red-brown ; a brown white-centred spot 

 on middle of costa ; inner-marginal area dull ochreous, without markings as far as 

 vein 2 ; hindmargin rusty ; fringe of both wings white, with brown-red marginal line ; 

 fringe of forewings along the patch ferruginous tipped with white. 



Face, vertex, thorax, and base of abdomen yellow ; palpi, antennae, and collar 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous, the ti}) brown. Underside yellowish ; in forewings varied 

 with grey and lirown ; the marginal triangle red-brown ; the oblong patch of forewings 

 and costal spot of hindwings filled in with whitish. 



Exijanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One (J from Fergusson Island, December. 



7'J. Hyposidra schistacea sp. nov. 



? . Forewings : dull silvery slate-colour, the markings darker, purplish slate-colour ; 

 first line at one-fourth, bent below costa, thick; the basal area within it darker along 

 inner -marginal half; a dark fascia beyond middle, edged internally by a nearly straight 

 line and outwardly by a wavy and bluntly angulated one-, hindmargin suffused with 

 darker, preceded by an obscure wavy dark submarginal line and a dark vertical streak 

 at anal angle. 



Hindivinrjs: with basal two-thirds more or less suffused with dark, the whole 

 marginal area pale, with the darker waved submarginal line more distinct. Underside 

 like upper, but duller, neither wing with the base darker. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorous ; the centre of abdomen blacker. 



Of six c?(?, one agrees both in colour and markings with the j f ; of the other 

 five, three have only the edges of the fascia darker, but agree in colour ; the remaining 

 two not only have no fascia represented, but are much browner in tone, being varied, 

 especially in the hindwings, with greyish ochreous scales. 



Expanse of wings : 5,50— 60 mm. ; cJ, 36 — 46 mm. 



Three J $ , six (J(?,from Fergusson Island, Xovember and December ; one ? from 

 Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March. 



