( 241 ) 



Underside the same. Palpi and antennae blaclc; face black, with the lower tliird 

 white; thorax black, with a wliite .sjxit Ijetween the shotdders in front ; abdomen 

 black, with a row of white spots down the back. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One ¥ from Fort Abercoru, British Central Africa, 1895. 



129. Bursada rotundimacula sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 2fi, ?). 



Forewim/s : black, with two white streaks from base, one, reaching to two-thirds 

 of cell, above the subcostal vein, the other short, above the snbmedian ; a ]iale 

 yellowish spot at base ; a very irregular white fascia from near end of cell, not 

 touching the subcostal vein, running obliquely outwards and broadening to the 

 snbmedian fold, then much constricted on the submedian vein, and again expanding 

 and occu]iying the middle third of inner margin ; a large irregularly edged oval 

 blotch towards apex from near costa to below vein 4 : a series of submarginal oval 

 white spots between the veins, those opposite the cell obsolescent ; fringe black (?). 



Ilindwings : white, with the base narrowly black : a large round discal spot ; a 

 broad marginal black border, running in along vein 4, containing large white semi- 

 elliptical submarginal blotches between the veins ; the inner edge of the marginal 

 border slate-colour, which tint is extended along costa to basal blotch, which is also 

 edged with slate-colour. 



Underside the same, but blacker. Face, pectus, forefemora, and collar pale 

 yellowish ; palpi and antennae black ; thorax black, mixed with ])a.\e yellowish ; 

 abdomen ringed alternately with lilack and pale yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 58 mm. 



One ? from N. Luzon (Whitehead). 



In appearance resembling rather a Craspedosis, but the antennae, even in the 

 ? , are pectinated, as in Bursada. 



130. Craspedosis albigvitta sp. nov. 



Fore wings: slaty black, with an oMir|ue white blotch from below middle of 

 costa to near inner margin before anal angle ; this blotch is broader below than 

 above, the inner edge sinuous, with a slight indentation basewards below first 

 median nervnle, and with a short point below costa directed towards the apex ; fringe 

 black. 



llbuhcini/s : whoU}' black. 



Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; anal orifice beneath 

 orange. 



Expanse of wings : 4S mm. 



One ? from Etna Bay, New Guinea, August 189() (Webster). 



Intermediate between C. seiniplat/a Warr. from Fergusson Island and ('. oralis 

 from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea: distinguished from the former by the /)road white 

 blotch, and from the latter by tlio wholly black hiiulwiugs and abdomen. 



1;'>1. Hylemera fiavibasis sp. nov. 



Forr/rinr/g : white ; costa narrowly black at base, limiting a small basal orange 

 blotch, then widening to apex ; hindmargin diffusely black, containing dull smoky- 

 tinged i3ale spaces, beyond cell and between the medians, the whitish gronnd-colonr 

 running in nearly tci margin along the submedian fohl : the black edging extend.s 



