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67. Nadagarodes purpiiraria spec. iiov. 



Foreicinq : purplish brown, overlaid in places with bluish grey scales; costa 

 pale ochreons, dotted with black ; first line blackish, from oue-fifth of costa, angled 

 below subcostal vein, then oblique to near base of inner margin, accompanied by 

 dull orange-red scales ; median line diffuse, from three-fifths of costa to before 

 middle of inner margin, likewise accompanied by orange-red scales ; outer line, 

 blackish and distinct, from quite two-thirds of costa to beyond middle of inner 

 margin, the interval between it and median line overlaid with pale lilac-grey scales, 

 the dark shade beyond it being mixed with orange-red; marginal dark area tinged 

 in places with bluish grey and traversed by an evenly waved submarginal line 

 of the same colour; fringe (worn) brownish j)urple, with, apparently, a fine orange 

 line at base. 



Ilinihcinq : with the lilac-grey fascia between the two dark lines antemedian ; 

 the rest as in forewing. 



Underside dull orange, striated throughout in the forewing, and along costa 

 only in hiudwing, with purplish brown ; outer line of forewing thick and brown, 

 sinnons, the marginal area beyond it purple-brown, towards costa striated with 

 orange ; in the hiudwing the line is central and nearly straight ; the marginal 

 dark area only half as wide as in forewing, with a waved orange submarginal line ; 

 cell-spots black, linear in forewing, dot-like in hindwiug. 



Palpi externally orange ; face deep purple-brown ; shoulders, patagia, and 

 thorax purplish grey ; vertex and antennae iiuri)lisli, speckled with orange ; 

 abdomen jiurplish grey at base, becoming orange on anal segments ; underside 

 and legs orange ; the tarsi purplish fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 S from the south side of Choiseul Island, Solomons, January 1004 (Meek). 



Nesophila gen. nov. 



Fort'wiiKj : arched at base and faintly curved ; apex rectangular ; hindmargin 

 well curved. 



Hindwiug: rather narrow ; anal angle rounded off; hindmargin with slight 

 indentation beyond cell ; the apical angle squarely rounded. 



Abdomen of i with lateral tufts ; antennae simple, lamellate, flattened and 

 subserrate ; i>ali)i npcurved in front of face, second segment fringed with hairs 

 terminal long and pointed ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae with four 

 spurs, not swollen ; no fovea in forewing. 



Neuration : forewing, cell less than half the length of wing ; discocellular 

 concave, the lower lialf oblique ; first median nervulc at two-thirds, second close 

 to third ; radials normal ; subcostal vein depressed at extremity ; T, 8,9, 10 stalked 

 from the bend ; 11 bent upwards and approximated to 12, but not anastomosing ; 

 hiudwing, costal and subcostal shortly approximated at base ; veins 3 and 7 before, 

 angles of cell ; no radial. 



Type : Scaophila talgaris spec. nov. 



Resembling Tcjjhrinopisiii, but structurally dilferent. 



(is. Nesophila vulgaris spec. nov. 

 Foreiring: fuscous, slightly rufous tinged; lines bhukish, tliick, irregularly 

 waved; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, oblique out- 



