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towards dorsum before middle; costa spotted with blackish, w ith 

 a larger tlatteiied-triaiigular l)hick-brown spot in middle; an 

 irregular patch of blackish irroration in disc at i : eiha pale 

 ochreous mixed with brownish and sprinkled with whitish. 

 Hindwings with subdorsal fold; fuscous; cilia light fuscous, with 

 darker subbasal line. 



Solomon Is.: Bougainville (Meek) — Nkw Guinea : Aru Is. 

 (Doherty); in October, two specimens. 



379. A. paraHema, n.sp. 



9. 19 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown tinged with fuscous. 

 Palpi porrected, ochreous-yellowish, base of joints and a subapical 

 bar of second joint blackish. Thorax pale ochreous, suffused with 

 fuscous except shouldei-s and posterior extremity. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderatel}' arched, 

 faintly sinuate in middle and rather jarominent at |, apex ver}' 

 obtuse, termen almost sti'aight, vertical ; light brownish-ochreous, 

 partially sprinkled with ferruginous; a blotch t)f irregular pur- 

 plish-fuscous marbling occupying dorsal | of wing from base to 

 tornus, margins of cell partially marked with blackish and ferru- 

 ginous scales, costal area above this sprinkled and strigulated 

 with fuscous and dark fuscous; a small flattened-triangular dark 

 fuscous spot on middle of costa: two purplish-leaden-fuscous 

 oblique transver.se streaks posteriorly, and between these a curved 

 dark fuscous streak running to termen below middle, between 

 apex of which and costal median spot are two blackish dashes on 

 veins; three small suiiused blackish spots on costa towards apex, 

 beneath which is some coppery-purplish suffusion : cilia ochreous- 

 yellowisli, indistinctly barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 rather dai-k fuscous; cilia whitish-grey, with darker grey subbasal 

 shade. 



Solomon Is.: Choiseul (Meek); one specimen. Differs from the 

 preceding in form of wing as well as in markings. 

 380. A. sjjhccrocosinana Meyr. 



(Antithesia sphcerocosmana Meyr,, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1881, 642). 



N.S.W.: Richmond River (Masters). No further examples 

 seen. 



