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boyoiul a,s far as ontor lino, suffused with black : tlio deiitato lilaek outer line is 

 visible above middle; cell-spot silvery white; fringe reddish above middle, grey 

 below. 



Underside nuiform dull brick-red, with faint traces of the lines. 



Face and jialpi deep red, palpi beneath yellowish ; vertex brown-red, paler 

 in front; collar lilackish; shonldcrs and jiatagia brick-red, tliese, as well as the 

 collar and vertex, with metallic lustre, like costal streak : thorax and abdomen dull 

 brick-rod ; forelegs red in front. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 (? from New Georgia, Solomons, March 1904 (Meek). 



Hindlegs long : the tibiae with a pair of short terminal spurs and no femoral 

 t ift ; fore femora with a pencil of white hairs. 



Hindwing with decided elbow in middle of hindmargin. 



S6. Stibarostoma pulverata spec. nov. 



<?. Forcwirai : pale ochreons grey, somewliat thinly scaled, but thickly and 

 finely dnstcd with grey, the veins showing slightly darker; the wing is crossed 

 bv four thick bauds, faintly darker grey than the ground-colour, a basal curved, 

 a jiostmedian from two-thirds of costa incurved below middle to one-half of inner 

 margin, a snbmarginal parallel to hindmargin and a marginal ; the costal streak 

 is also of the same grey ; cell-spot linear, grey ; marginal dots minute, between and 

 at end of veins ; fringe paler grey. 



II ind icing : the same, but without basal band, and the marginal band reduced in 

 breadth but darker. 



Underside pearly grey, tinged with rosy on forewing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pearly grey, the face and vertex whiter ; palpi 

 externally rosy tinged ; lateral red patches on third and fourth segments ol' 

 abdomen ; forelegs rosy in front. 



In the ? the bands are broader and somewhat darker, all with very faint small 

 dots on the veins. 



Expanse of wings : t? 20 mm.; ? 28 mm. 



A pair, apparently bred, from Townsville, Queensland (I)odd). 



SuBF.uiiLY HYDRIOMENINAE. 

 Paragramma gen. nov. 



Foretriixj : short and broad ; costa arched at base and convex before apex • 

 apex and hindmargin rounded, the latter slightly crennlate. 



Ilindiviiifi : hindmargin well rounded, crennlate ; anal angle well expressed. 



Antennae (?) simple; palpi short, jiorrect, terminal segment blunt; tongue 

 and frenulum 'present. 



Nenration : forewing, cell two-fifths of wing; discocellular vertical; vein 2 

 at two-thirds ; 3 close before 4 ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before end 

 of cell ; lo, II stalked, anastomosing strongly with 8, 9; 11, 10, S, sejiarating 

 only towards costa ; areole quite small, single : hindwing, costal and subcostal 

 anastomosing for only half ol' cell; 0, 7 hardly stalked; discocellular iil)li(|ue, 

 radial from the centre. 



Type : Parayiamma mimtila spec. uov. 



Characterised by the short cell, and short, simple areole, 



