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52. Thalassodes albifimbria sp. nov. 



Forewings : blue-green, with s])arse pale faintly Instrons strignlations, most 

 nnmerons towards the marginal area; costa ochreous white; a nearly straight faintly 

 lustrons line at three-fourths, parallel to hindmargin, not touching costa and wider 

 at inner margin ; fringe white. 



llindivings: with the line finer, licut parallel to hindmargin. 



Underside duller, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all bluish 

 green; the fillet finely white; antennae ochreons white like costal edge. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One ? from Blantyre, British Central Africa. 



53. Thalassodes flavicosta sp. nov. 



Forewings : green, witli numerous faint whitish strignlae, but without any 

 trace of whitish lines ; fringe green; costa finely white throughout, from near base 

 to near apex, with a broad pale yellowish streak beneath it. 



Hludivinys : like forewings; both wings with deeper green cell-spot. 



Underside whitish green. Face and palpi pale ochreons; tips of palpi and 

 pectinations of antennae pale ferruginous ; vertex and shaft of antennae white: 

 thorax and abdomen green, the latter becoming ochreons beyond middle. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One S from Port Darwin, N. Qaeensland (coll. Buckland). 



Distinguished by the broad pale costa, absence of lines, and smaller size. 



Subfamily STERRHINAE. 

 Apostates gen. nov. 



Forewings: triangular, the costa nearly straight; apex rounded; hindmargin 

 oblique, slightly curved, almost as long as inner margin. 



Ilindwings : bluntly produced at end of vein 6, curved above it, and nearly 

 straight below to anal angle. 



Antennae (?) very fine, filiform; palpi porrect, short, the second joint thickly 

 scaled, the terminal joint very short. Tongue and frenulum present. 



Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular vertical: first 

 median at three-fourths, second at seven-eighths, third from end of cell ; lower 

 radial from centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; vein 7 free, 

 from just before end of cell, slightly curved from origin ; 8, 0, 10, stalked, 11 ana- 

 stomosing with them to form a single areole. Hindwiugs with costal shortly 

 touching subcostal; the two subcostals short-stalked ; radial from slightly above 

 centre of discocellular ; medians as in forewings. 



Tyi)e : Apostates albiclathrata sp. nov. 



The <S will perhaps indicate better the proper place of this genus ; for the 

 present it may be placed near Rhodostrophia. 



54. Apostates albiclathrata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull browu ; the costa, veins, and three transverse lines pale 

 ochreons ; tlie costa broadly ochreous to middle; first line from about one-fourth of 

 costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly oblique above the median and below the 



