( 90) 



Meganoton lifuense sp. uov. 

 (PI. VII., fig. 20.) 



Female. — Foreu'inps greyish white, crossed by unmerous zijrzatr. iudistinct brown 

 transverse lines. 



Hinduings brown, with an ill-defined jrrer patch at the anal angle. 



Head and thorax wliitc with two lilark liil'ts at the juuctnre with the 

 abdomen. 



Abdomen yellowish grey, with three longitudinal dorsal brown stripes. 



Male, similar to the female, bnt has the gronnd colour darker, and the markings 

 more sharply defined. 



Expanse : male, 3 inches = "6-5 niillim. ; female, 3-75 inches = 95-63 millim. 



Hab. Lifu, Loj'alty Islands. 



Meganoton khasianum s]i. nov. 



This very aberrant species has mn<h the ap])earance of Daremma kageni 

 (Grote). 



Forewings TeAAhh brown, clonded with grey and striped and spotted with black; 

 in the cell there is a round white stigma in the centre of a black ring, and there 

 is a black patch a fonrth from the base of the inner margin. After the cell the 

 wings are crossed by three heavy bnt hulistinct zigzag bars, in between which 

 are pale grey areas. 



Hindu'ings dark brown. 



Head and thorax dark brown. 



Abdomen paler brown, with ii central black line and some lateral irregular 

 white dots and black streaks. 



Expanse, 4 inches = 102 millim. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, Assam. 



PSEUDOSPHIXX. 



In this genus P. obsura Bntl. must sink as a synonym of P. trtrio (Linn.), 

 for in a large series from Aroa, Venezuela, I have specimens ranging in colour 

 from the palest P. tctrio through every intermediate form to P. obsciira, and two 

 specimens are much darker than P. obscura, being nearly black. 



MACROSILA. 

 Venezuela specimens of M. lefebrrei (Guer.) are very small and pale in colour. 



Macrosila rotundata s]). nov. 

 (Fl. V 11., tig. 17.) 



Forewings jiale grey, clouded and streaked with darker grey and with two 

 central transverse brown lines, starting from the costa about a third from the base, 

 and crossing obliijuely to the centre of the cell, where they join and extend as a broad 

 brown band at right angles to the centre of the outer margin of the forewings. 

 There are also two zigzag, thin, transverse lines crossing tlm ciMifri' of the wings, 

 and a white round stigma is in the cell. 



Hindwings brown, vvitli a large greyish patch at the anal angle. 



Head grey. 



