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Microtome geu. uov. 



Foreicings : narrow, the costa nearl)' straight, curved close to apex ; apex 

 blnutly rounded ; hindmargin fiiintl}- excised between veins 6 and 8, below obliquely 

 curved. 



Hindtvinys: narrow: apex rounded off; hindmargin well nmnded and sub- 

 creuulate ; anal angle excised from vein 1. 



Abdomen of 6 long and slender ; antennae bipectinated : forehead produced 

 below ; paljii thick and stout, oblique in front of face, terminal joint minute ; 

 tongue and frenulum present ; hind-tibiae thickened, with four short spurs: forewiug 

 with distinct fovea. 



Seuration : forewiugs, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular bluntly angled ; 

 first median at three-fifths, second close before end of cell ; radials normal; 7, 8, 9, 

 stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. Hiudwings with costal shortly approximated to 

 subcostal : first subcostal nervule and second median close before ends of cell. 



T3-pe M. trigonata sp. nov. 



100. Microtome trigonata sp. nov. 



Forewiugs : pale ochreous, more or less dusted with fuscous and in parts 

 suffused with ochraceous : the lines ochraceous, indistinct, and often obsolete, all 

 starting from brown-grey spots on costa ; first from one-fifth of costa to nearly 

 one-third of inner margin, oblique outwards to subcostal vein, then vertical : median 

 difiusc, slightly before middle, angled, like the first, then slightly oblique to near 

 middle of inner margin : outer line fine, at two-thirds, sinuous and marked liy 

 dark vein-dots, closely followed by a darker Hue or shade which starts from costa 

 just before apex ; the space between this line and the median forms a pale costal 

 triangle, suffusedly edged with ochraceous : marginal area ochraceous, through 

 which the submarginal line is marked above the median by pale black-edged spots 

 or lunules ; fringe ochraceous. 



Hiudwings : i)aler, without any ochraceous sufl'iision ; an obscure and ditl'use 

 autemedian shade, a curved slightly waved jiostmedian line, and a macular sub- 

 marginal line ; cell-spot brown, in one example large ami round ; the two lines 

 are brown on inner margin. 



Underside ochreous, speckled with ochraceous : the lines ochraceous and more 

 distinct, the second on the hindwiijg double : the dark submarginal spots of 

 forewiugs and cell-spot of hiudwings larger and blacker. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



Two SS from Rossel Island, February — IMarclj 1898 (Meek). 



li'l. Poecilalcis indigna sp. nov. 

 Foretvings : ochreous-whifisli, sj)ecklcd and suft'used with pale fuscous and 

 brown ; the lines dark brown ; first from one-fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner 

 margin, bent above the median vein ; second from two-thirds of costa to three- 

 fifths of inner margin, outcurved above incurved below, denticulate and lunulate : 

 the included space filled up with j)ale brown and containing a com])aratively 

 large dark cell-spot : submarginal line i)alc, indistinct, preceded by brownish clouds 

 and followed beyond cell and at costa by brown shades ; a row oi' elongated dark 

 marginal sjjots ; fringe ochreous. 



