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BBEPANVLIDAE, THYEIBIDAE, VRANIIDAE, . 

 EFIFLEIIIDAE AND GE03IETRIDAE 

 FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DREPANULUJAE. 

 Campylopteryx gen. nov. 



Forewinfis : with costa strongly arclied, sligbtly bent in middle ; apex bluntly 

 produced ; bindmargin oblique, with a blunt tooth between veins -! and 3, a long 

 shallow excision above, and slight one below it. 



llimi wings : with hindmargin entire, nearly straight ; both angles bluntly 

 square. Palpi short, antennae of c? plumose ; tongue and frenulum present ; hind- 

 tibiae of (? with terminal spurs only. 



I\euration : forewiugs, cell about half of wing ; discocellular with a short upper 

 and lower vertical arm, acutely iuangulated between ; first and second median 

 nervnles at three-fifths and four-fifths respectively ; the radials from the upper and 

 lower ontward angles of discocellular; 7, 8 stalked from angle of cell ; 0, In 

 stalked; 11 free; 9 anastomosing towards costa with s, forming a long curved 

 areole ; hindwings with costal approximated shortly to 7 beyond cell ; (5 from 

 upper angle of cell, 7 from long before ; radials and medians as in forewings. 



Type : Campijlopteryu- sublignata sp. nov. 



Here also must be referred iJi-epano Jlcximargo Warr. (Nov. Zool. Ill p. 'Z~'Z). 



1. Campylopteryx sublignata sj). nov. 



Closely allied to C. Jlej-iiudnjo Wwv. {Ih-cpana) from Fergusson Island, but 

 little more than two-thirds as large ; ditfering also in that the ground colour of the 

 hindwings is the same as, or even paler ochreous than the forewings, instead of being 

 brown. Underside of forewings, except along inner margin, dark wood-brown ; the 

 liindwings tinged with brown before central line and beyond the hyaline blotch. 

 Thorax and abdomen wholly ochreous, not brown. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



1 S from Kissoei, Watoebola, March 1901 (H. Kilhn). 



Holoreta nom. nov. 

 Now that marginata Moore, the tyjic of his genus Cobanilla, proves, according 

 to Sir G. Hampson, to be referable to the Lijmantriidm, I i)ropose the above name 

 for those Ihr/KUHdidar, hitherto referred to Colidiiilla, which have fully pectinated 

 antennae in both sexes, and the hindmargius of the wings entire, with jaspiilen 

 Warr. for ty[)e. 



'-'. Holoreta jaspidea. 



Oihunilln janjiidiii Warr., Nov. Zwn.. Ill p. 330 $ . 



A S of this species from North Queensland differs from the ? originally described 

 in being purplish brown, with a tinge of fulvous in the lighter parts, instead of 



