(242 ) 



from anal angle along inner margin nearl}' to miiMle ; the minlian vein is marked 

 wit h lilack in tli<' onter half of cell. 



//htf/iri)ii/s : white, with a sinuons-oducd blackish border fnini jnst beyond 

 miiMli' of costa to anal angle, int('iTU|)ted nj^wsite the cell, except for a few 

 marginal black scales, by the white ground-colour ; fringe black, except opposite 

 the cell. 



Underside similar : face yellowisli : antennae and tliorax black : abdomen with 

 whitish basal segment. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One c? from the Cameroons. 



Lobocraspeda gen. nov. 



Forewings: elongate ; costa straight, curved slightly at base, and convex before 

 apex ; apex rounded ; hiudmargin oliliqnely rounded, v(>ry faintly indented at end 

 of vein 2. 



Hindwinys : narrow, elongate ; hiudmargin very strongly rounded, forming a 

 semicircle from apex to end of vein 2, where there is a deep angular indentation, 

 the anal region forming an angulated lobe ; in the ? this indentation is very faint. 



Antennae (J) pubescent : jialjii porrect, hairy; tongue and frenulum strongly 

 developed; pectus and femora hairy; forewings of c? with fovea; hindwings of c? 

 with inner-marginal area sulcate on either side of vein 1. 



Neuration: fore wings, cell about half as long as wing; discocellular slightly 

 oblique ; first median at one-half, second close before angle of cell : radials normal; 

 7, 8, 9, stalked; lu and 11 coincident. Hindwings ^vith costal a])proximate(l to 

 subcostal for three-fourths of cell'; cell more than half the length of wing, the dis- 

 cocellular inaugulated ; first and second median nervules near together from before 

 lower angle of cell, both curved and shortened. 



Type : Lobocraspcdd coeruleostriga sp. nov. 



132. Lobocraspeda coeruleostriga sp. nov. (I'l. V. fig. 3, <?). 



Foreicings : black, with a bine spot near base on tlie submedian fohl, and a 

 vertical slightly sinnous bine fascia at two-thirds, not touching either costa or inner 

 margin ; fringe black, glossy. 



J/i/ii/zri/ii/x: with the base, costa, and three-fifths of onter margin, including the 

 lobe at anal angle, black, leaving an irregularly semicircular area on inner margin 

 yellow. 



Underside dull slaty brown ; the yellow area of hindwings duller. Head, 

 palpi, and thorax black ; abdomen yellow. In the ? the yellow becomes dull 

 blurred orange. 



Ex]iause of wings : tJ, 54 mm ; ? , ."iS mm. 



Four (^d, one ?, from New Guinea, Mount Alexander to Mount Nisbet, 

 .Tanuary iNDti (Antliony). 



133. Pitthea fractimacula s]i. nov. 

 Forc/r/Df/s: black, with two obli.ine red blotches with broken edges, one from 

 below one-third of costa to above inner margin beyond inidiUe, the other from 

 below two-thirds of costa to near middle of hiudmargin, the latter bent and narrowed 

 at the lower end. 



