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preceded liy a larcre roniid wliite cell-sput ; the rest as in forewintr, but t1ie dark 

 fringe is preceded by white scales, and the inner margin and fringe are whitish. 



The underside is pinkish brown with all the markings indicated by darker 

 shades ; the costa of forewing is marked with white scales and a white blotch before 

 apex ; all the lines are marked by tine pale dashes on veins, and the white cell-spot 

 of hindwings is j.lain, with another white spot below it. 



Shoulders, vertex, and upper half of face brownish olive ; lower part of face 

 and palpi dark grey ; thorax and abdomen grey and olive mixed ; base of palpi 

 beneath and pectus fnlvons-tinged ; legs blackish spotted witii white. 



Expanse of wings : (50 mm. 



Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea (A. S. Meek). 



A largo pale discal spot occurs also in S. vulfuaria Gnon. from Borneo, but on 

 the underside of hindwing only ; and a similar spot on the upper side of forewing 

 is mentioned in the description of S. peruhui-ia Swinhoe ; both these examples 

 being, like the present one, ? ? . 



Subfamily GEOMETRINAE. 

 11. Tlialassodes subviridis sjuc. nov. 



Foiririnq : bright jialo green, with a few faint ]inli' transverse striae, most 

 distinct in the marginal area; costa crcam-culour ; u fine obliijuc whitish inner line 

 only visible below median vein ; a nearly vertical straight outer line from below 

 costa just beyond middle ; fringe yellow. 



Hindwing : with outer line only, distinct from costa to vein 8, where it is 

 angled and becomes fainter. 



Underside mealy jiale green ; the costa of forewing ochreous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all green ; vertex snow-white ; basal half of 

 antennal shaft white, apical lialf green, the pectinations grey-green ; alidomen with 

 a i)ale dorsal line. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 (? from Christmas Island (Andrews). 



Nearest to TL ilorsiliiira AVarr. from New Guinea, but sniiiUer and much 

 greener on the underside ; the antennae are heavily jjcctinated, and quite three- 

 fourths of the length of forewing ; hindmargin of hindwing bluntly bent at middle. 



Subfamily STERRHINAE. 

 12. Mesotrophe ?subrabrata spec. nov. 



/•Vc?CT^^ ; -fawn-colour, densely spiinkled with dull red, partially confluent, 

 dots and striae ; costa brown-black at base, jialing towards apex : lines of the same 

 colour, but obscure; first from one-fifth of costa to oue-fourtli of inner margin, 

 waved iind interrnjited : outer from nearly three-fourths of costa to tliree-fourths of 

 inner margin, liuuihite-dentatc, outcurved in middle ; a vertical thick waved olive- 

 brown median shade ; cell-spot minute, white with a dark ring ; submarginal line 

 oliscure, but jireceded and followed by black Innular clouds below costa and above 

 inner margin : marginal lunules blackish : fringe concolorous. 



UiiiJwinq : with inner line marked by a black blotch at one-fourth of inner 

 margin; cell-spot minute, white; the rest as in forewing, but the black clouds iu 



