156 NOVTTATES ZOOLOGICAE XX\^ I9I8. 



Genus Pachygnathesis nov. 

 Type : P. siuamata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reach- 

 ing to vertex of head, broadly scaled above and very broadly below, the scales 

 being much produced at its extremity, the 3rd moderate and thickly scaled; 

 frons smooth with large tuft of hair above ; eyes lajge, round ; antennae of 

 male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and without crests. Forewing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; G from just below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 

 stalked and anastomosing with 8, 9 to form the areole ; the male with slight 

 fovea at upper angle of ceU and costal fold to end of cell on underside. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3, l from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocel- 

 lulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from the other genera with an areole in the forewdng having 

 vein 7 from the cell, veins 8, 9 stalked, 10, 11 stalked and anastomosing with 

 8, 9 to form the areole. 



47-t9a. Pachygnathesis sguamata n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax ochreous ; antennae dark brown, the .shaft whitish ; 

 palpi ochreous mixed with red-brown, the 3rd joint whitish with dark ring at 

 middle ; abdomen ochreous white ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with 

 brown, the fore tarsi dark brown ringed with wliite. Forewing ochreous white 

 suffused in parts with red-brown except towards base, the costa suffused with 

 red-browTi to base ; small subbasal and antemedial black spots on costa ; a 

 small antemedial black spot below median nervure and another at middle of 

 cell with some raised white scales on them, and a similar spot at middle of inner 

 margin ; a red^brown postmedial shade with black spots in the interspaces with 

 tufts of raised white scales on them, the spots arising below the costa and the 

 shade incurved below vein 5 ; the costal area towards apex and the terminal area 

 more strongly suffused with red-brown, with some whitish points on costa with 

 darker brown between them ; an indistinct ochreous subterminal line, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series 

 of dark points ; ciUa red-brown mixed with some ochreous white. Hindwing 

 ochreous white ; a diffused medial brown line from vein 6 to inner margin ; 

 an interrupted rcd-browii terminal line except towards tornus ; the ciUa 

 with red-brown mixed except towards tornus ; the underside with red-brown 

 discoidal bar, rather diffused curved postmedial hue and the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown. 



Hah. Louisiade Is., Rossel I. (Meek). I J type, St. Aignan I. (Meek). 2 (J. 

 Exp. 24 mill. 



4776o. Conicofrontia mesoscia n. .sp. 



$. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with some whitish ; antennae rufous ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish mixed with rufous. Forewing whitish shghtly 

 tinged with flesh colour and irrorated with brown ; a wedge-shaped rufous shade 

 along median nervure from base to the po.stmedial Une from vein 5 to submedian 



