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hairy, the third smooth and slender and bent at an angle with the second ; the 

 shaft of the S antennae is white with the pectinations fuscous. 

 Expanse : 'M mm. 



Iu4. Parametrodes aurantiacata sp. nov. 



tj. Forewings : deep yellow with orange-red strigae aud suffusion ; the costa 

 with dark fuscous striae and ochreous intervals ; first line diffuse, at one-fourth, 

 orange-red ; second at two-thirds, thicker, angled outwards at vein 4, and inwards 

 on the submedian fold ; followed by a white blotch beyond cell and on submedian 

 fold ; marginal area beyond suffused and thickly striated with orange-red ; fringe 

 concolorous ; cell-spot red. 



Hi)idwi)igs : like forewings, but without first line. 



? with the lines more defined ; the red striae mixed with fuscous ; the outer 

 line followed by pale yellow instead of white blotches. 



Underside duller ; the outer line red aud narrower ; a diffuse fuscous marginal 

 fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, speckled with orange-red; the shoulders 

 wholl}' red. 



Expanse of wings : 6 26 mm. ; ? 3(1 mm. 



A pair from Sudest Island, April 1898 (Meek). 



The hindwings of the 6 are not so disproportionately large as in the type 

 species, dispar. 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 



105. Azata funebris sp. nov. 



Forewings : dark purplish grey, with very much less pale scaling than iu 

 A. variegata Warr. ; the pale scales being restricted to the space between middle 

 and outer lines ; the costa dotted with yellow and fuscous purple ; three dark brown 

 transverse lines, finer and less wavy than in varii'gata, the outer preceded by 

 yellowish scales : submarginal line hardly shown, except by a j)rominent j)ale 

 snbapical spot above vein li ; an interrupted dark purplish marginal line ; fringe 

 white at base, broadly mottled with fuscous beyond the veins. 



Himhchigs : with only two lines ; the submarginal faintly [laler. 



Underside white, thickly pej)i)ered with jmrplish, the lines and a broad sub- 

 marginal fascia purplish ; the subapical s])ot of forewings white. Head, tliorax, 

 and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



Three SS, two ? ?, from Blilnc Bay, British New (iuinea, November 1898— 

 February 1899 (Meek). 



The hindmargiu of hindwings is rounded, without an elbow in the middle; 

 the antennae of S have longer ciliations, and the forewings arc witliout the 

 conspicuous hyaline fovea of..!, tarkgata. 



Genus Bithiodes Warr., Nov. Zool. I. p. 439. 



AVIien 1 made this genns for the species— up to that time referred to Liixiaria 



AVlk. — in which the angle of the hindwings is at the end of vein 6 instead of 



vein 4, I named Acidalin incxadnla Wlk., as the type, being under the impression 



that it was the oldest name for oblirjuata Moore. To my surprise, when lately 



