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Two ? ? from Japan. 



The costa of forewings is mncli straigliter, loss deojily indentod beyond the 

 middle, than in the Indian sjiecies. 



o. Letcheua semitessellalis. 



I'j/ralis scmitessellalis Wlk., XXXIV. p. 124G. Moreton Bay. 



Striglina Injalotipiln Lower, Tram. Roijal Soc. S. Austral. XVIII. 1894. p 87. 

 St. Barnard Island, Qneenslaud. 



Rhodoneura (?) tessellatula Pag., Iris V. p. 58 S. Cebu, Philippines. 



Lctcliena phH/iata Warr., Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 382 ? . Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands. 



Though differing considerably in size — Walker gives 20 mm. ior the (?, and 

 Pagenstecher 32 mm., while the ? ? of phigiata from Kiriwini reach 4.5 mm. — I am 

 forced to the belief that all the above names refer to the same species ; besides the 

 qnoted localities, E. Pegn is given by Hampson, F.B.I. I. p. 358, and I have lately 

 come across a ? from the Loo Ghoo Islands differing in nothing from the Kiriwini 

 insects. The type of Lower's hi/alosjnJa is now in the Tring Musemn. 



0. Pharambara sigillata sp. nov. 



ForeAuings : greyish white, with grey reticulations ; costal region varied with 

 patches of greyish olive, esjiecially towards base : a black-edged partially 8-shaped 

 discal mark, the lower half plainest, followed by an indistinct central ulive-grey 

 fascia, interrupted below the middle, and dark-edged on inner margin ; an olive-grey 

 costal patch before apex, from which a broken snbmarginal line runs to inner margin 

 parallel to hindmargin ; space beyond it with black dots and dashes, and an olive- 

 grey blotch above middle ; fringe whitish. 



Himlwirigs : with series of irregular grey transverse striae, marked with black 

 at inner and along hindmargin ; cell-spot black ; fringe whitish. 



Underside much gayer ; costa of forewings marked witli black dashes along the 

 edge ; all the olive-grey patches and lines changed to ferruginous, forming a sub- 

 costal irregular dark streak ; the hindmarginal blotch in middle blackish, with an 

 oval white space above and below it, marked with black spots; space between costal 

 and subcostal veins, and the base of cell filled with silvery metallic scales; hiudwings 

 white, with the reticulations and strigac ferruginous and blackish. Abdomen whitish 

 grey, sprinkled with black dots ; head and thora.x darker grey; antennae ferruginous, 

 tliick and flattened, lamellate ; forelegs above brown, with white joints ; palpi 

 brown. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One i from Warri, Niger C!oast Protectorate, September 1897 (Dr. Roth). 



7. Pharambara staccata sp. nov. 



Forewings: gre)--brown, crossed by numerous rippled darker lines, forming 

 the edges of the usual fasciae, but all very indistinct : one near base, a second 

 antemedian, outcurved in middle, and a third beyond middle, broad on costa and 

 narrow at inner margin ; two more distinct lines towards aj)ex, consisting of trans- 

 verse dashes between the veins, the inner curved to anal angle, the outer to 

 hindmargin at elbow: the fasciae slightly darker than the intervals, especially the 

 postmediau one beyond the cell ; fringe concolorons. 



Hindwinys : similar, the middle of wing occupied by a difluse broad curvi'd 

 dark brown shade ; a snbmarginal curved line of dark spots. 



