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Family THYRIDIDAE. 

 6. Banisia clathraria »<p. nov. 



Closely allied to B. recfiriatn Warr. from New Guinea, but the fjround colour 

 is ochraceous, with the reticulations ferruginous and the cro-is lines and shades grey 

 brown ; the straight thick autcmediau line is paler, not so prominently marked as in 

 recticiatn. This line in the hindwings is absent in clatlinirin, while in n'ctieiata 

 it is quite as strongly marked as in the forewings, forming one line with it. Indeed, 

 the dark markings of the hindwings are here very obscure, consisting of a central 

 curved streak throwing oif a spur to outer margin and a forked snbapical line. The 

 fringes of both wings have a darker Hue along base, and their basal half is distinctly 

 darker brown than their apical half A further aud important difference is that 

 the wings are entirely without the semihyaline spots which apjiear in the S S of 

 recticiata. 



Two S S from Kinigunang, New Pomerauia (Ribbe), the larger expanding 

 30 mm., the smaller only 24 mm. 



7. Eetousa dilecta Wlk. XXXIII p. 1112. 



Xeothi/ris aspinnm Wari'., Nov. ZooL. VI p. 6. 



The publication of the second volume of the Cataloync of Eastern T.cpiilojitcra 

 Heleroo'ni in the Oxford Museum, in which Walker's species is figured, has enabled 

 me to make the above identification. Walker's type was from Morotai ; mine of 

 (isjiirii/is from Woodlark Island ; I have also seen a ? from St. Aiguan, and 2 J J 

 from Milne Bay, New Guinea, aud now again another ? from Kulambangra, 

 Solomon Islands, takeu in February lOUl by Meek. 



8. Canaea ovifera. 



Diinlara oivfera Butler, Pr. Z. S. 1H92, p. 129. t. G. fig. 7. 



This must be regarded as a good species, quite distinct from any of the forms 

 of C. myrsusalis Wlk., or myrtaea Drury. The apex of forewings is more acute and 

 produced; the third joint of the jialpi is much longer ; lastly, the hindmargiu of 

 hindwings is quite even, whereas in mt/rsusalis it is always crenulate. 



A S from Saudakan, dated Febrnary 1893, expands only 20 mm. 



The hind-tibiae are very densely haired, reddish below, ochreous above. 



Dohertya gen. nov. 



Shape of wings and neuration as in Pharambara Wlk. ; distinguished from it 

 and allied genera by the following points : (1) the hind-tibiae of <S , instead of the 

 usual four spurs, have only the terminal pair, of which the inner one is very long ; 

 from the femoro-tibial joint a long process rises, equal in length to the tiiiia itself, 

 its lower half clothed with pale hairs, its terminal half dark like the sjiurs, which 

 it resembles, except that the apex is not sharp, but bluntly rounded; (2) the 

 antennae are thick, flattened, with close curved serrate finely pubescent teeth 

 beneath, rasped or finely serrate above, the basal joint much enlarged. 



Type : Dohertija roseoputu'ta sp. nov. 



9. Dohertya roseopuncta sji. nov. 

 Forewings : dingy fuscous grey, witii numerous darker transverse lines, 

 obscurely reticulated, and forming four or five indistinctly marked darker bands. 



