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Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE. 

 64. Perizoma rectilineata sp. nov. 



Foreicings : greyish brown, rnfons-tinged, withont darker dusting ; the lines 

 dark, finely and concisely edged with yellowish ; first from one-sixth of costa to 

 one-fourth of inner margin, waved, with a blunt ])rojectiou into cell ; second from 

 two-fifths of costa to before middle of inner margin, nearly vertical, witli a faint 

 bend on the median vein ; third from two-tliirds of costa to three-fourths of inner 

 margin, oblique, slightly bent ; sulmiargiiial line formed of interrupted blackish 

 cloudy Innulc's ; basal patch and median area darker brown, especially towards third 

 line ; fringe dark brown : veins towards hindmargin slightly paler, and a pale 

 rufous-tinged streak tlirough cell to liiudmargin. 



Jlindwings : i)ale ochreous grey; a slightly curved postmedian line at two-thirds, 

 followed by a paler more ochreous space before the still darker grey margin. 



Underside dark rufous grey ; the outer line on both wings followed by a paler 

 space. 



Head and abdomen rufons grey ; thorax darker, like basal area of wings. 



Expanse of wings: 2:i mm. 



One <J from Mailu, British New Guinea, July 1895 (Anthony). 



Subfamily BRACCINAE. 



65. Bnrsada obnubilata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull yellow ; the markings fuscous l)rown ; costa and outer two- 

 thirds of wing all dark, except a small irregular pale patch towards apex, and a 

 conical curved blotch beyond middle of inner margin, the apex of which reaches the 

 subcostal vein : the pale basal third is nearly filled up with a confused lot of spots 

 and streaks. 



Ilindwings : with the outer margin from before apex to anal angle fuscous 

 brown, the inner edge Innulate and approximated to hindmargin in the middle ; a 

 broad central fuscous baud from inner margin above anal angle, narrowed and 

 incurved towards costa ; a shorter bent fascia above it, only reaching the median 

 vein, and a basal blotch, both fuscous ; fringe of both wings fuscous. 



Underside similar, but all the markings dull red. 



Head, tliorax, and abdomen fuscous; abdomen beneath and legs yellowish; 

 tarsi and the forelegs in front fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



One c? from Kayeli, Burn, March 189T (Doherty). 



Nearest to Ji. triciiictaria Linn., the yellow ground-colour deeper. 



Subfamily ABRAXINAE. 



66. Abraxas abrasata sp. nov. 



Forewings: milk-white; basal patch blurred, fulvous and grey, with some 

 lustrous pearly scales across it, and edged by a brown line marked below by spots 

 on veins ; a grey spot on costa above discocellular, and two before apex, the a])ical 

 one elongated ; a scries of grey marginal triangles before the grey fringe ; blotcli at 

 anal angle mucli reduced. 



