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rather narrow, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa slightly 

 arched, apex rounded-obtiisc, ternien abruptly sinuate- 

 indented, hardly oblique: greyish -ochreoiis, more or less 

 mixed with whitish suffusion, especially on margin of mark- 

 ings ; costal edge dark fuscous with pairs of oblique white 

 strigulse, from one of which in middle a white line rvms 

 beneath costa to apex, preceded by two or three short black 

 dashes on veins ; a moderately broad brownish-ochreous streak 

 from base above middle to apex, sinuate downwards on pos- 

 terior half, and containing some small spots of dark fuscous 

 suffsion posteriorly ; a broad rather dark fuscous streak along 

 dorsum from base to tornus, attenuated at base, upper edge 

 with two slight prominences before middle and two othei's at 

 tornus, its posterior extremity surrounded with bluish-silvery 

 suffusion ; four or five undefined blackish dots or minute 

 dashes before termen : cilia pale greyish-ochreous mixed with 

 bluish-silvery-whitish, round apex reddish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous, thinly scaled, with a broad darker ter- 

 minal fascia ; cilia dark grey, outer half whitish. 

 New Guinea : Sudest I. (Meek) ; two specimens. 



353. P. rhothias, n.sp. 



O* 9 • 28-32 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous variably 

 suffused with brownish-ochreous, in one specimen crown and 

 centre of thorax rather dark fuscous and patagia whitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi ochreous- whitish, base of terminal joint and 

 a subapical ring of second more or less fuscous or dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen abruptly excised beneath apex, 

 little oblique ; in cT whitish-ochreous more or less obscurely 

 streaked longitudinally with light brownish-ochreous or grey- 

 ish-ochreous suffusion, in 9 ochreous-brown ; costa except near 

 base dark fuscous with short ochreous-whitish strigulse : edge 

 of basal patch more or less indicated on lower half by unde- 

 fined fuscous or dark brown suffusion ; an irregular transverse 

 more or less interrupted dark fuscous spot in disc beyond 



