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Actenochroma subopalina sp. nov. 



Forewings dull green, very fini^ly dusted with blackish atoms ; costa verv 

 niiniitply mottled with blackish, except towards apex, where it is more evidently 

 marked with blackish and jiinkish ; basal line blackish, mixed with pinkish scales, 

 I'orming two or three indistinct cui'ved teeth ; a small blackish discal dot ; second 

 line blackish, denticulated, followed by a band of contiguous blotches of pale 

 pinkish and blackish scales ; submarginal line obsolete ; fringe concolorous, with 

 a small dark spot at base between the veins. Uindwiiigs the same, but with the 

 base for some distance a mixture of blackish and pinkish scales. Head and 

 thorax green; abdomen and face palor. Underside delicate pale opaline green; 

 in the forewings with some sparse darker mottlings towards the hiudmargin ; 

 both wings with a largish round black cell spot, and a pinkish brown fascia 

 towards the hiudmargin, which has both margins in the forewings difl'use, but 

 the inner margin on the hindwings concise. 



One S from the Kliasia Hills. 



Diudica marginata sp. nov. 



Closely related to Dindica polyphaenaria Guen. ; forewings precisely the same, 

 except that the dark costal blotch beyond the exterior line is wanting. Hindwings 

 much brighter orange, with a much narrower black border ; which is not much 

 wider at the anal angle than at the inner. Underside with tiie l^asal two-thirds 

 brighter yellow ; the black fascia in both wings touching the hindmargin 

 throughout, and leaving no white included spot ; that in the forewings being 

 dotible the width of that in the hindwings. Abdomen beneath and on sides 

 bright orange. 



One c^ from S. Celebes, the same si/e as polyphaenaria (iuen. 



Pingusa candidaria sp. nov. 



Like crenana Guen., but decidedly larger ; the hindmarginal area much 

 paler, the lines and discal dasli more strongly expressed ; the black fascia of the 

 underside more restricted, and no trace of yellow at the base of either win;,'. 



Expanse of wings: d", 48 mm.; ?, 52 mm. 



Several e.xamples of both sexes from Australia. 



Pingasa cinerea sp. nov. 



Forewings silvery grey, densely dusted throughout with darker olive grey 

 scales ; first line fine, dark grey, tinged with reddish, forming two rounded 

 projections, between costa and inner margin ; second line fine, blackish, denti- 

 culated, followed by a darker shade, in which are some pinkish scales ; fringes 

 pale grey with a fine dark basal line; discal dot small, dark, inconspicuous. 

 Hindwings the same, but more thickly dusted with darker scales, especially in 

 the costal region, and with more decidedly pinkish scales beyond the second 

 line. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale gre^', dusted with olive fuscous ; the face 

 and abdomen paler than the rest ; tufts of the hindwings and crests of abdomen 

 whitish. Undcr.side dull whitish, tinged with cinereous in the forewings especially ; a 

 broad, smoky black liindmarginal fascia, touching the margin throughout, and leaving 

 the fringes whitish ; forew'ings with cosla and diffuse cell mark smoky black. 



One ? from Anstrali.T. 



