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produced below ; palpi porrect, rostriform, forming a tihelf in same plane as forehead ; 

 tongue present; antennae simple, thicker in c? than ? ; hind tibiae with four 

 spurs. Forewings of c? with a long oval bladdery fovea on the submedian nervure 

 close to base, the nervure apparently dividing and forming the edges of the 

 fovea, which is margined witli a layer of flat scales on the under surface. 

 Tyije : Atopophi/sa indistincta Butler (Scotosia). 



Eschatarchia gen. nov. 



Allied to Vhalyhoclydon Warr. ; but the frontwings are more falcate ; the 

 hindmargin more .strongly elbowed in the middle; the hindwings with hindmargin 

 subcrenulate and produced into a decided angle in the middle. The neuration 

 also differs ; the cells are equally short ; but in Eschatarchia in both wings the 

 median is bent inwards at its extremity, and the second median nervule rises 

 from the bend just before the end of the cell. In Ghalyhoclydon, the median 

 nervure is straight ; both the second and third median nervules rise from the 

 end in the forewings, and are short stalked in the hindwings. 



Type : Eschatarchia lineata s\). nov. 



Eschatarchia lineata sp. no\. 



S- Forewings stone colour, pinkish tinged, dusted with fuscous; costa brownish; 

 two or three indistinct brown cnr\ed lines near the base ; two oblique parallel 

 brown lines beyond the cell dot; a cur\ed reddish brown thick line from just 

 before apex to the hindmargin above the elbow, and from below the elbow to the 

 anal angle ; fringes dark grey, with a dark brown basal line. Hind^vings with 

 two jjarallel brown lines across the centre ; two less distinct and more curved 

 towards the hindmargin ; a thick reddi.sh brown shade along the hindmargin, 

 thinner above the elbow than below. Thorax and abdomen eoncolorous ; the latter 

 with two i-ows of dark dorsal spots ; thorax in fi-ont tinged with brownish ; face 

 brown ; vertex white. Underside dull stone colour with traces of darker suiiusion 

 near the base, and of dull cross lines. 



Expanse of wings: 32 mm.' 



One <S from Japan. 



Placotome gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Polynesia Swinh., but distinguished by the peculiar excision 

 of the forewings in the c? (? and ?). The costa suddenly bulges out at three-fourths, 

 and the edge is bent over, while the rest of the costa apjiears to have been cut 

 straight off; two of the subcostals run into this projecting part, and other two 

 obliquely into the apex. 



Type: Placotome trunca'pex Swinli. {Polynesia). 



Pseudasthena ochracea sp. nov. 

 S. Forewings yellow, crossed by a series of undulating, partly denticulated, 

 orange or fuscous orange lines, forming a more or less distinct basal patch, central 

 fascia, and submarginal fascia ; a darker diffuse horizontal subcostal streak ; when 

 the orange is mixed with fuscous, the lower part of the central fascia is whoUv 

 filled up with fuscous; the centre of the fascia often bears a fuscous streak, 

 wliich is sometimes extended to the hindmargin; and I he niarginal dots are tiieu 



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