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Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE. 

 T4. Oenoptila vulpina sp. nov. 



Fomcii/f/K : fox-colour, very thickly and minutely striated with fuscous ; the 

 costa slightly darker at base, the costal edge pale ; markings scarcely visible j a 

 slightly curved darker median shade passing outside the small dark cell-spot ; the 

 two lines — first about one-third, curved, second at two-thirds, curved parallel to 

 liindmargin— marked in one example by distinct jiale vein-dots, in the otlier hardly 

 present ; fringe concolorous. 



Ilindwings : the same, without cell-spot. 



Underside jialer and duller, black-speckled only along hindmargins Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen concolorous : vertex and antennae white. 



Expanse of wings : 88 — 4(1 mm. 



Two ? 2 from Florida, Solomon Islands, January iOUl (Meek). 



Very much like, though a little larger, and agreeing in nenration with Oruoptilc 

 nihra Warr. from Jamaica ; differs from both Pctdi'i and Thi/saiwpi/ga in the 

 anastomosing of lu with 11 and again with n, 9. 



T5. Polycrasta albipuncta sp. nov. 



Like P. ocellata AVarr. from the Trobriand Islands ; agreeing in the markings 

 above, bnt the cell-spot in the hindwings, instead of being black; is snow white and 

 oval in shape, jilaced in a somewhat darker fascia lying between the inner and 

 central lines. 



Underside of both wings smooth olive-grey, with a darker postmedian shade 

 and broad border along hindmargins, the white cell-spot of hindwings showing 

 faintly through. The base and cells of wings are not clothed with hairs as in 

 ocellata, and the apical fringes of hindwings alone are pale ; the flap of the inner 

 margin is white. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One i from Florida, Solomon Islands, January 1001 (Meek). 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINx\E. 

 Tfi. Nadagarodes subpulchrata sp. nov. 



Foretcings : white, thickly sjieckled, and in j>arts suffused, with dull reddish ; 

 the lines reddish, marked with brown or lilaekish. bnt somewhat indistinct • first at 

 one-fourth, strongly outcurved above median vein, obliquely curved inwards below, 

 darker spotted on the veins, the basal area reddish-grey speckled ; outer line at 

 three-fifths, from a dark costal spot, irregularly jagged and dentate, and blackish 

 towards inner margin, forming a sharp angle outward on veins 6 and 7, an equally 

 sharj) one inwards between veins 4 and 5, and bluntly jirojecting outwards again 

 between veins 3 and 4, thence lunnlate and oblique inwards ; the space between the 

 two lines whitish, with olive-grey speckles, and traversed by a faint grey median 

 line, beyond which the speckles are somewhat less numerous ; submarginal line 

 whitish, regularly zigzag, near and parallel to hindmargin below vein (i ; space 

 between this and outer line suffused with dull reddish, as is the marginal space 



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