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129. Scoliacma hampsoni spec. nov. (PI. V. f. 20. ? ; PL VI. f. 23. <?). 



<?. Heart and thorax white, antennae pale brown, abdomen grey, legs greyish 

 white. Both wings white, inner-marginal fold tinged with yellow. On the under- 

 side there is a })encil of longish creara-colonred hairs below the cell of the primaries, 

 and on the secondaries another of shorter grey hairs near the base of the costa. 



? . Primary uniform greyish white, somewhat shining and smooth in te.xtnre, 

 with a very fine dark costa. Secondary greyish white on the costal half, pale 

 brownish on the inner-marginal half Underside dark brownish grey in the cell 

 to the costa and along the termen, inner-marginal area to the cell white. 

 Secondaries darkish brownish grey, paler on the inner margin. 



Expanse : c? ? , 24 mm. 



Hab. Dinawa, September ; Aroa River (Mns. Tring). 



The type is in my collection. This species will form a third section of the 

 genns Scoliacma Meyr. It does not follow either of the sections given by Hampson 

 in his Lepidoptera Phalaenae II. p. lU2 (19U()); the section will differ in the males 

 by the antennae being pectinate and with bristles, by a tuft of long hairs below 

 the cell, and by the presence of a large fold on the inner margin of the primary, 

 covered below by a patch of androconia, whilst vein 11 from the end of the cell is 

 curved basewards, anastomosing with 12. In the secondaries there is a tuft of hair 

 on the costa, vein 7 from the cell is inclined upwards to the apex, and 8 is bent 

 suddenly up to the costa. In i\i& female the neuratiou is peculiar ; vein 2 from near 

 the end of the cell is strongly curved downwards, reaching the termen jnst above 

 vein 1, veins 3 and 4 are stalked and slightly curved downwards, whilst vein 11 

 anastomoses ordinarily from about the middle of the cell ; the inner margin is 

 also slightly produced, but not so much as to form the large lobe so conspicuous 

 in the male. 



13u. Chrysoscota flavostrigata spec. nov. 



i. Head yellow, with a small dark central spot, palpi yellowish tipped with 

 black, thorax dark brownish, with yellow collar and patagiae, abdomen dark brown 

 with extremity yellowish below. 



Primary dark grey-brown, with a narrow central longitudinal streak, expanding 

 out somewhat beyond the cell, whence it ascends obliquely to the costa, termen 

 obscurely yellowish. Secondary uniform greyish black. 



Expanse : 26 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, March and April. 



The type and a second specimen are in the Tring Museum. 



131. Nishada melanopa spec. nov. (PI. V. f 19). 



cJ. Head and frons sooty black ; thorax chrome yellow ; abdomen paler yellow ; 

 pectus roughly haired, black ; legs sooty brown. 



Primary unicolorons chrome yellow, secondary paler yellow; the fringed 

 costal fold is deep, consisting of several layers of almost bare, flat, broad spatulate 

 scales. 



Expanse : 28 mm. 



Hab. Dinawa, June — July ; Aroa River (Tring Museum). 



Type in my collection. 



