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03. Megatheca (?) ampla sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull pale green ; the transverse lines dark grey and blackish ; 

 b.isal area and central fascia dnsted with blackish, and edged by blackish lines ; 

 central fascia with three internal denticnlate lines, the outer two grey, the inner one 

 lilackish, forming with the inner edgeadarkcr narrower Viand : the i)al(' green liands 

 preceding and following tlie central fascia traversed by a grey thread ; subniargiiial 

 line indistinct, preceded by a darker, externally Innulate-edged liand ; a row of 

 dark marginal Innnles ; fringe greenish. 



Hiiifhrinqs : the same, without basal jiatcli ; the lines of the central fascia 

 invisible. 



Underside duller ; forewings with large dark cell-spot, which on the upper 

 side is lost in the inner edge of central fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey- 

 green. 



Expanse of wings : 22 ram. 



One ? from Lombok, 1500 feet, June 1896 (Everett). 



As the specimen is a ? , its location is doubtful : but it bears the prominent 

 forehead oi MtyKtlieca. 



Genus PasipWla Meyr., Tr. N. Z. T„st. 1883. p. 66. 



Heln.-itiode.': Warr., Nov. Zool. II. p. 110. 



In proposing the genus Ilelustiodes, I stated that the antennae of the i were 

 pectinated. This is not correct. They are biciliated with fine fascicles of cilia ; 

 and as the type species hilineolatit ^Vlk. was put forward by Jlr. Meyrick as 

 the type of his genus Pasiphilu, which he afterwards sunk to CIdorocbjstis, it 

 follows that if the species with fasciculate antennae are separated from Ckloroclystis, 

 as I think they should be, his name Pasipliila must stand for the genus. 



Prorocorys gen. nov. 



Agreeing in nenration with Chlorochjstis, veins 10 and 11 of forewings stalked, 

 11 anastomosing strongly with 12, and 10 with 8, 9. Antennae of ? short, thick, 

 lamellate. Distinguished by the structure and scaling of the palpi ; these are long 

 and porrect, as in Rhimprora, but instead of being smoothly scaled the scales are 

 rough and thickened at the end of first and second joints into a projecting crest, 

 the third joint alone smoothly scaled, its shaft narrow, swelling out into a lengthened 

 clnb. 



The lines of the wings formed of lustrous metallic scales. 



Type : Prorocorys gemmcda sp. nov. 



ti4. Prorocorys gemmata sp. nov. 



Forewings : gronnd-colonr pale yellow, bnt almost hidden by rich red-brown 

 suffusion and dnsting ; a roundish blotch in the end of cell, a submarginal series 

 of wedge-shaped spots, and the extreme hindmargin and fringe alone remaining 

 yellow ; a steely spot at base ; basal and subbasal strongly dentated and ontcurvcd 

 steely lines : median and postmedian much interrupted and less dentated lines : a 

 very sinuous and broader outer line, and a wedge-shaped submarginal line, all 



