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108. Nadagara irretracta sj). nov. 



Forewings : pale greyish fawn-colour, faintly dappled with darker ; first line 

 from one-third of costa to before one-third of inner margin, strongly ontcnrvcd in 

 cell close to the dark brown cell-spot, but indistinct except on costa and inner 

 margin ; second line from inner margin a little beyond middle to costa shortly before 

 apex, irregularly crenalate and slightly curved ; unlike the other species this line 

 is not retracted at costa ; the inner line is edged outwardly and the outer internally 

 with brown, while the inner is edged internally and the onter externally with 

 whitish; a faint dentate submarginal line preceded by a faint brownish shade and 

 edged outwardly with whitish ; a row of chocolate-brown marginal lunules ; fringe 

 (?) concolorons. 



Hiiuhvings : similar ; no inner line, the onter Hue straight ; marginal line 

 chocolate-brown, crennlate. 



Underside greyish white, thickly striated with fawn-brown ; cell-spots and 

 outer line brown. Palpi, top of face, and edges of vertex fulvous ; face brown : 

 tliorax and abdomen like wings ; shoulders darker. 



Expanse of wings : 3.3 mm. 



One d from Tugela, Solomon Islands (Woodford). 



Nearest to JV. pulchriUneata Wlk. 



109. Nadagarodes duplicipuncta sp. nov. 



Very closely allied to X. mi/solata Wlk. (= ceraiiiuta Wlk. = itunctata Feld.) ; 

 but whereas in that species the lines are all oblique, and straight, parallel to hind- 

 margin, in the present one they are curved and crenulate. This will distinguish 

 both sexes. The ? ? moreover may be easily separated by the white apical blotch 

 of the underside of forewings, which in mysolata is single, and contained between 

 veins 7 and 8, and in duplicipuncta double, extending to vein 6. The species 

 occurs, along with mysolata, in St. Aignan ; Ron Island ; Ansns, Jobi ; Sudest 

 Island and Rossel Island ; but at present I have not seen it from New Hanover 

 or Goodenongh Island, from both of which localities mijsolata has lately been 

 received, nor from the original localities of that species, Mysol and Ceram. Felder's 

 Psamatodes nunctata is identical with mysolata. 



Expanse of wings : 40 — 44 mm. 



The St. Aignan specimens are all smaller than the average size. 



110. Tephrinopsis lineata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dingy whitish, covered with short fine transverse brown striae ; a 

 dark brown inner line at one-fourth, angled in cell, then obliiiue inwards ; a diffuse 

 clondy oblique median shade touching first line and containing a small dark cell-spot; 

 exterior and snbmarginal lines olijiquc and dose together, thick, slight!}' crenulate 

 and diffuse; a short dark line at anal nnglc : an interrupted dark marginal line; 

 fringe concolorous. 



Iliiidwiiigg : with thick difl'nse antcmedian .shade, and three postmedian lines, 

 the last bent at middle ; cell-sjjot black. 



Underside yellower, with the lines and striae reproduced. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen like wings. * 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One 6 from Penang, April 1898 (Curtis). 



