(224) 



Underside greyer, witli the dark ripplings mnch more distinct : snlwostal area, 

 base and end of cell of forewings occupied by patches of erect chestunt-brown 

 liairlike scales ; costa dotted with ochreons ; a bed of deep black and metallic scales 

 along median vein to end of cell ; the paler space beneath with scattered black 

 scales ; hindwings grey, without chestnut •^hading ; liead, tlionix, and alidoincu 

 concolorons. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One ? from West China. 



(Mosely related to Ph. thiastoralis Wlk. IVom Brazil, wiili whicli Swinhoe's 

 rhoclosticta from India appears identical. 



I take tliis occasion to suggest that Walker was not wrong in giving this 

 locality, inasmuch as Pagenstecher's Siculodes violalis {Iris V. p. 69) from Ecuador 

 is evidently the same insect ; and I have seen a single specimen from Warri, on the 

 Niger, which must likewise be referred here : so that it would apj)car that the 

 species is as widely spread as Letchena myrtaea Drnry and myrsusalis Wlk. under 

 their diflerent forms. 



8. Rhodoneura sulphurea sp. nov. 



Foreicings : snlphnr-yollow ; the costa minutely dotted with black: a basal 

 blotch of vinous brown scales extending as far as one-third of costa and one-fifth of 

 inner margin ; traces of faint ochreous grey transverse striae between the veins, in 

 rows parallel to hindmargin; veins 4, 5, 6, 7, marked with brilliant pink, the ground- 

 colour around them being slightly smoky grey, with the transverse striae plainer ; 

 fringe sulphur. 



llindwim/s : with the base rosy, and traces of curved lines of ochreous grey 

 spots. 



Underside of forewings with the costa more strongly black ; basal jiatch wholly 

 rosy ; the rest as above, but the four veins pink to the margin and finely black at 

 their origin ; cell clothed with rough erect yellow woolly scales, tipped with metallic 

 black. Head, thora.x, and antennae vinous brown ; abdomen yellow, with th(^ basal 

 half rosy-tinged above ; palpi rosy; inside of forecoxae, femora, and tibiae brilliant 

 rosy; tarsi and spurs pale yellow, varied with ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One ? from Penang, November 1896 (Curtis). 



A very lovely insect. 



0. Striglina hyperbolica sp. nov. 



c?. Forcivinga : chestnnt-brown, covered with rather coarse irregularly contorted 

 brown-black transverse strigulae, that form an incomjilete reticulation : from three- 

 fifths of inner margin a brown-black line starts obliijuely outwards and on vein 6 is 

 bluntly and rectangularly bent to costa at thrce-tifths ; it is followed by another less 

 precisely marked line similarly angled inwards ; in one specimen these lines toach 

 at their angles, in the others they are separated by a short sj)ace ; costa beyond 

 middle marked by three black marginal dashes ; fringe concolorons, with a dark 

 central line. 



llinduinys : similar, the stronger line slightly before middle ; distance between 

 the two lines at the angles greater. 



Underside with the markings more distinct, the ground-colour being a bright 



