(484 ) 



3. Striglina divisata spec. nov. 



Foreiring : ochreons, suiFnsed at base, along costa, aud beyond the outer line 

 with brownish ; with thick black-brown short transverse marks between the veins ; 

 a large somewhat irregularly edged blackish cell-spot ; a square blackish spot 

 before hindmargin between veins 6 and 7, formed by the union of two streaks, 

 sometimes separate ; a blackish oblique line from just beyond middle of inner 

 margin running to the inner of the two submarginal sjiots, intensified by the brown 

 suffusion beyond it ; a row of distinct black marginal dashes ; fringe ochreons 

 (worn). 



Hindwiny : with the line straight just before middle ; the transverse streaks 

 swollen into spots so as to suggest a submarginal line, the spots on the folds being 

 chiefly conspicuous. 



Underside rather paler. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



4 cJcJ from Bunguran, Natuna Islands, July — October 1894 (C!. Hose). 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 



Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 



4. Alex aurantiata spec. nov. 



Foreiving : yellow, the basal, costal, and liindmarginal areas slightly decjier- 

 tinged and more or less thickly sprinkled with dark olive-grey specks and striae, 

 the paler inner portion of the wing being generally more sparsely speckled, and 

 sometimes quite clear; a large round black cell-spot; an oblique red-brown line, 

 sometimes all but obsolete, from below apex to inner margin beyond middle, 

 thickening downwards ; fringe dark iron-grey, yellow at apex and anal angle. 



Hint/whig : with the line, from vein 6 thicker, antemedian, sometimes with 

 indications of a dark cell-spot ; a submarginal line marked by black sj)Ots, of 

 varying size and shape, between the veins ; fringe yellow ; costal area above 

 subcostal vein paler yellow and without speckles. 



Underside deeper yellow, the speckles coarser and blacker ; a strongly marked 

 zigzag blackish submarginal shade broadening to vein 1, and continued across 

 hindwing as two divergent diffuse lines, the outer one dentate ; cell-spots black ; 

 black marginal lunules on each wing ; the fringe of forewing black, of hindwing 

 deep yellow. 



Vertex, forehead, and palpi velvety black, second segment of palpi beneath deep 

 yellow ; thorax and abd6men yellow ; the shonlders aud base of patagia tinged with 

 dull fulvous : abdomen beneath and femora yellow ; fore and middle legs blackish 

 externally, red internally ; hind femora red externally, the tarsi fnscons ; the sjiurs 

 fnscons with pale tips. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



2 S<S,1 ?, from Obi Major (Watcrstradt). 



The antennae of the c? with pedicellate fascicles of cilia, surmounted by a long 

 forward-curved claw-shaped bristle. 



