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to beyond middle ; cilia with a fine white hne at base and white tips. Under- 

 side of fore\ving red-brown, the inner area white ; liindwing whitish suffused with 

 red-brown, the cell and inner area whiter. 



Hah. Lonisiade Is., Woodlark I. (Meek), 1 $ type. Exp. 32 mill. 



6471a. Gsntona scotialis n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black tinged with leaden grey ; 

 antennae and palpi black-brown ; abdomen black-brown tinged with grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed with fuscous, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore\\ing cupreous red-brown with black 

 markings mixed with leaden grey ; a black and grey patch on basal costal area ; 

 a double curved black antemedial hne fiUed in with leaden grey and with small 

 tufts of raised black scales on it in and below the cell ; a sUght dark brown medial 

 hne, oblique to submecUan fold, then inwardly obUque ; a curved discoidal 

 band defined by blackish hues and filled in with leaden grey from costa, where 

 it is connected with the postmethal band, to the postmecUal band between veins 

 3 and 2 ; the postmedial band formed by a double very shghtly waved black hne 

 filled in with leaden grey ; two narrow shghtly waved leaden-grey subterminal 

 bands defined on outer side by black points ; a terminal series of small black- 

 bro«n spots defined by leaden grey ; cilia dark brown tinged \vith leaden grey 

 at base, grey at tips. Hindwing with the basal half white tinged with brown, 

 the veins and terminal half dark brown. Underside whitish suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the basal half of hindwing wliiter. 



Hah. Solomon Is., Goodenough I. (Meek), 2 S type. Exp. 20 mill. 



Sarrothripinae. 

 64:9of(. Characoma melanographa a. sp. 



<J. Head and thorax white, 'the head with black streaks behind antennae, 

 the tegulae, tipped with black, the patagia edged with black and with black spot 

 at middle, the mesothorax with black patch and the metathorax with black 

 streaks at sides ; antennae black, ringed with white towards base ; frons with 

 black spot above : palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints black above towards base ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with brown ; pectus and legs wliite tinged with red- 

 brown. Forewing white ; black spots at base on costa and below the cell and 

 a spot in the cell before the black subbasal hne, which is angled outwards at 

 subcostal nervure and ends at submedian fold, in which there is a short black 

 streak beyond it ; some black suffusion on basal part of inner margin ; ante- 

 medial hne black, oblique, waved, with two small black spots before it in the 

 cell and a short black streak from it in lower end of cell ; a black discoidal point, 

 some shght points on medial part of costa and a black patch below end of cell ; 

 postmecUal line black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then 

 slightly waved, a rather cUffused conical black patch beyond it from costa and 

 the area beyond it with some black iiToration except towards costa ; subter- 

 minal hne black, interrupted below costa and excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a black point on costa towards apex, obUque black fascia from apex 

 and shght maculate shade before termen ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots ; ciUa brownish white intersected with blackish. Hindwing white, 



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