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155. Ptychopoda subrubellata sp. nov. 



Foreuiiigs : glistening, olive-ochreous ; the lines darker, and sometimes the 

 veins towards the hindmargin; costal region dusted with fine reddish scales, the 

 costal edge red : the inner, median, ami outer lines at even distances, starting from 

 dull purplish costal spots at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds respectively, the 

 median and outer slightly waved or denticulate, and all three, when the insect is 

 fresh, marked with rufons : subtermiual and submarginal darker shades ; fringe 

 concoloriius, witli slight rufous spots at ends of veins ; cell-spot rufous. 



IJiiidiciiHjs : the same, without first line. 



Underside of forewings, except the fringe and inner marginal area dull red ; of 

 hindwiugs dull yellowish, with two curved submarginal reddish bands. Face, palpi, 

 and forelegs reddish ; vertex jiale ochreous ; collar reddish ; thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous ; hind-tibiae thickly tufted, ochreous and reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 14 mm. 



Three i S from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (A. S. Meek). 



Closely related to Pt. sericeijjeitnis Warr., from Fergnsson Island. 



66. Symmacra inconspicua sp. nov. 



Forewings : grey, dusted with darker ; the lines very obscure, and marked by 

 black vein-dots; first at one-tiuarter, curved ; second at five-sixths, the teeth on 

 veins 4 and 6 slightly prominent; an indistinct dark median shade; cell-spot black ; 

 marginal line blackish, snbcrenulate ; fringe pale ochreons-grey, with a blackish 

 sjiot at base beyond veins. 



llhidwings : similar, but the cell-mark linear, black, ending at each end of 

 discocellular in a snow-white dot. 



Underside uniform dark cinereous ; the outer and marginal line shown. Face 

 and palpi dark brown ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (A. S. Meek). 



In this example vein 1 1 of forewiug anastomoses at a point only with 7,8, 9, 10, 

 not strongly as in the type species. 



Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGINAE. 

 67. Carige absorpta sp. nov. 



Forewings : jiale ochreous, finely dusted with brownish ; a curved brown-grey 

 Ihie at one-third, and another at two-thirds, both slightly and irregularly creuulate ; 

 fringe glossy In-own-grey ; a brown cell-spot. 



Jlindtrings : without first line. 



Underside similar, but more thickly dusted with brownish. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



Numerous examples from Jajjau. 



Forewings with ajiex little produceil ; hindmargin obtusely bent at vein 4. 



Hindwings with hindmargin excised between veins 4 and 6. 



