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Subfamily ORTIK )ST1X1NAK, 

 Sebastosema g>-n, nov. 



Fweufinqa: narrow at base, wick-uiug outwards; costa straight, slightly iiicknited 

 at three-fourths, then shortly convex; a|)ex rounded; hindmargin bluntly ellwwed 

 opposite the cell, then oblicjue to anal angle, which is nearly rectangular. 



Iliiubvings : with both angles rounded; hindmargin curved, faintly indented 

 opposite the cell. 



Thorax and abdomen stout. Antennae of tS short, curled round, strongly pecti- 

 nated to the ai)ex, the pectinations ciliated. Forehead very flat ; palpi short, hairy, 

 decumbent; tongue not visible. Pectus and femora hairy; hind tibiae with a pair 

 of short terminal spines. All the tarsi hooked at extremity. 



Neiirntion: forewings, cell rather more than half as long as wing; diseoeellular 

 slightly angled; first median at three-fourths, second before angle of cell, third 

 from the angle; radials normal; last three subcostals stalked from end of cell; second 

 a little before ; first from close to base, running close to and parallel with the subcostal 

 as far as the origin of the second, where it appears to vanish ; point of origin of the 

 second thickened. Hindwings, costal united to subcostal by a bar near base; first 

 subcostal before upper angle of cell ; second median Iiefore the lower angle. 



Type: Sebastosema buhonuria s\>. nov. 



Akin to Epirrhanthis Hiib. 



2. Sebastosema bubonaria sp. nov. 



Foreifings: lilac-grey, dusted with fuscous atoms and suffused in parts with tawny ; 

 a curved dark-liruwn basal line at one-fifth, the area included slightly snfl"ns(>d witli 

 tawny ; second line at three-fourths, dark brown, sinuous, nearly jiaratlel to hind- 

 margin ; marginal area beyond, tawny, except a minute pale grey spot on costa 

 beyond second line, a larger triangular apical spot edged outwardly with brown, and 

 a paler space above the anal angle: discal blotch large, round, tawny; aliove it 

 towards the base is a dark obli(|ue costal streak. 



Hindivinfis: dull orange dusted witii coarse blackish atoms, with two fine 

 blackish lines, the inner thickening towards costa, the outer towards inner margin; 

 hindmargin diffusely brownish, with a multitude of short fuscous and dark striae. 



Thorax, face, and antennae grey, mixed with darker ; abdomen tawny. Under- 

 side pale straw-colour and yellow, with the lines ferruginous, and snffnseil in parts 

 with tawny, the markings of the upperside being more or less rei)rescnled. 



Expanse of wings : 12 mm. 



One S from Japan. 



Schistophyle gen. nov. 



Foreiinnr/s : with costa -inuous, convex in basal half, inllexeil beyond: apex 

 produced, acutr. falcate ; hindmargin concavi' below apex, then vertical, and abruptly 

 rounded above anal angle, before which it is also slightly indented : inner margin 

 slightlv sinuous, convex near base, inflexed beyond middle. 



Hindwiiu/s : triangular; both angles distinct, the anal angle rectangular, t he 

 apical rounded ; hindmargin nearly straight. 



Palpi ui)curved, squamose, the joints indi-tiiict ; tongue present : .•inliMiniii' of 

 ? filiform. 



