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lunnlet, not reaching above vein 6 ; and beyond the outer line a less conspicnonsly 

 orange fascia, interrupted above and below the middle ; margin beyond the pale 

 subterminal line more thickly dusted with grey : a marginal ro^v■ of black spots 

 between veins, and a row of smaller dots at the vein-ends : fringe concolorous. 



lliralicijujs : the same ; the submargiual band less orange. 



Underside whiter ; spots of the outer and marginal line distinct ; costa of fore- 

 wings greyish at base, with a rufous subcostal edge. Palpi above deep red ; face 

 fuscous above, paler below ; vertex and antennae white ; thora.x and abdomen pale 

 ochreons, dusted like wings. 



E.xpause of wings : 30 mm. 



Five <Si, two ? ?, from St. Aignau, September — November 1897 (Meek). 



This species is allied to F. cretacea Warr. from Woodlark Island, but in that 

 the ground-colour is chalk-white and the markings less distinct. The hindfemora 

 are smooth, not clothed vnth curved hairs. 



T9. Pisoraca inornata Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. :,'41. 



This species was described from ? ? only. The d, whicli 1 have now seen, is 

 a true Pisoraca as far as the spurs of the hindtiliiae are concerned ; but whereas in 

 leonaria Wlk. only the hindfemora are clothed with curled hairs, in inoniata the 

 hindtibiae are also clothed on the inner side with a very dense brush of hairs, which 

 almost conceal the single spur. This single 6 is much less marked than the ? ? , 

 the median shade being quite absent, and only the vein-dots of the inner and 

 outer lines distinct. It was taken at Warri, at the same date as the ? ?, Ijy 

 Dr. Roth. 



Si I. Problepsis albidior nom. uov. 



Prohlepsis apollinaria Butler, III. Lcji. Iht. VII. j). 7 {ncc Gueu.). 



Problepsis deliaria Hmjisn., Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, III. p. 462 (jiec Guen.). 



The specimens from Kulu, described by Mr. Butler under the above name, difi'er 

 from (leliaria Guen., to which species they are referred by Hampson, I.e., in having 

 the ocellus of forewing larger, rounder, and paler, and in their larger size (40 mm.), 

 whereas Guenee gives 34 mm. for that of deliaria ; in all other respects Guenee's 

 description of deliaria applies well. I have lately met with a ? from Ichang which 

 undoubtedly belongs to the same form. 



81. Ptochophyle tristicula ab. fasciata nov. 



Along with seven others, all i S , of this species, four from St. Aignau and tliree 

 from Goodenough Island, is a single e.xample from the latter locality which differs 

 so much from the usual slightly marked type form that it deserves to be named. 

 In the forewing the space between the median shade and submarginal line is filled 

 up with rufous brown, forming a broad fascia, in the inner concave edge of which 

 lies the black cell-spot. This fascia i^ enlarged on the hindwing so as to embrace 

 all the anal area, leaving only the apical and basal areas yellowish ; the white cell- 

 dot of the hindwing lies within the fascia. By way of compensation the j-ellow 

 areas appear to lie less densely strigulated with rufous thiui in the typical forms, so 

 that the contrast between the two shades i» heighleued. 



