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Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 

 155. Azata flexilinea sp. nov. 



Foreiriiigs : grey-brown, (lasted and suffnsed with darker ; the lines dark 

 brown; first from oue-fonrth of costa to one-fourth i>f inner margin, rectangularly 

 bent in cell; outer line at tliree-fonrths, strongly angled on vein 0, then obli(|nely 

 curved to inner margin at three-fourths ; cell-spot blackish, followed by a median 

 line shaped like the first line, but much fainter; a dark brown marginal line, swollen 

 between the veins; fringe concolorous, with a whitish line along base. 



llimhcings : without first line. 



Underside whitish, tinged with yellowish, strigulated and spotted with brown ; 

 cell-spots and two outer lines slightly marked : a snbmarginal row of dark and light 

 blotches. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown. 



Exi)anse of wings : 26 mm. 



One ? from West China. 



150. Azata luteiceps sp. uov. 



Forewings : luteous, much speckled with lilack, towards bindmavgin tinged 

 with flesh-colour ; costa speckled with black ; a short brown-black subcostal shade 

 from base ; the lines ferruginous, starting from blackish costal spots; first close to 

 base, angled below costa, then oblique ; second median, slightly obliijue : third at 

 three-fourths, faintly curved and bent slightly inwards at suJimedian fold, followed 

 by a shade which is fulvous near costa, and contains a black spot between veins 

 3 and 4 and another on inner margin : marginal line blackish, interrupted ; fringe 

 with a luteous basal line, dark grey in upper half, luteous chequered with dark 

 below the middle. 



Hindwiiigs : with only the two outer lines, and the black spot between veins 

 3 and 4 distinct. 



Underside yellowish straw-colour, speckled slightly with brown-black : the 

 lines the same colour ; cell-si)ots distinct ; outer line followed by a lirown-black 

 shade, which narrows oft' towards costa of forewings and inner margin of hind wings; 

 fringe yellowish, chequered with brown. Abdomen beneath, legs, palpi, face, vertex, 

 and collar yellowish straw-colour, the face and vertex rather deeper ; abdomen above 

 like wings ; thorax brown-black. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One i from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August aud Sejjtember 1896 

 (Doherty). 



The hindmargin of forewings is not excised, of the hindwings subcrenulate 

 and scarcely dentate in the middle. It may be distiuguishi'd from A. mutahilis from 

 Penuugah, as indeed from all the other species, by the pale head and face. 



157. Gonodela abbreviata sp. nov. 



Forewings : whitish, speckled with ochreous and fuscous, the veins ochreons ; 

 the costa ochreons, with short dark striae ; the lines ochreous ; first near base, 

 angled on the subcostal vein, nmning in along the median, aud obliepiely curved to 

 inner margin near base ; second median, angled below costa, then oblique and bent 

 in on vein 2 ; outer line at two-thirds, angled on vein 6 ami bent outwards below 

 vein 2, marked with blackish between the veins, followed on costa by a sinuous 



