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5. Arhodia modesta sjmc. uov. 



Forewing : stone-grey, with slight darker speckling ; costa with a few black 

 dots ; lines hardly marked ; first from one-fourth of costa forming a dark smear 

 outwards and marked by a slight dark dot on median and sabmedian veins ; outer 

 line at two-tliirds indicated only by a slight costal shade and very faint vein-dots ; 

 a faint submarginal costal shade ; cell-mark cloudy, grey ; fringe slightly brown- 

 tinged, darker beyond veins, the tips whitish. 



riindwing : with inner margin chalk-white, spotted with chocolate brown and 

 with the commencement of two lines beyond middle, both of which soon become 

 obsolete ; cell-spot slight, brownish ; fringe faintly darker. 



Underside paler, especially along inner and hiudmargin of forewing ; cell-spot 

 brown, round ; a purplish brown roundish blotch between veins 2 and 4, and some 

 brown scales along median vein ; some slight dark marks along the ochreous costa ; 

 hindwing with brown speckling along costa ; the white blotch of inner margin with 

 its brown markings distinct ; cell-spot brown. 



Palpi and legs reddish dusted with pale ; face above reddish with some pale 

 scales, ochreous below ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex paler. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



1 S from Townsville, Queensland (Dodd). 



1 am inclined to think that the ? referred by me to Oenochroma simplex 

 {Nov. Zool. X. p. 201) really belongs to this species. 



Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 

 6. Celerena substigmaria spec. nov. 



Forewing : with the basal half of wing except a costal streak yellow ; apical 

 half black, the inner edge diffuse and irregular; from costa beyond two-thirds a 

 yellow elongated transverse blotch runs to submedian fold, its inner edge straight, 

 its outer irregularly sinuons ; fringe blackish. 



Iliixiwing : yellow, with broad hiudmarginal border, starting from two-thirds 

 of costa, its inner edge bent on vein 5. 



Underside of forewing with only the basal third yellow ; the yellow transverse 

 blotch much narrower, hardly reaching vein 2 and not touching costa ; hindwing 

 with the marginal border starting from before middle of costa and with a large 

 cloudy blackish cell-spot. 



Palpi and shoulders smoky black ; head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ; pectus 

 and hindlegs yellow ; fore and middle tibiae and tarsi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : Oo mm. 



1 S from Obi Major (Waterstradt) (type; ; also from Manovolka. 



Differs from proxima Wlk. in having a transverse blotch from costa instead of 

 an oval blotch before apex. 



Subfamily DYSPHANIINAE. 

 7. Dysphania chrysocraspedata spec. nov. 



Like D. aurilimbata Moore, but differing as follows. The abdomen above is 

 liale bluish white, belted with black, with no yellow at base as described in 

 aurilimbatu ; the legs are pale blue, (uly the femora, like the pectus and underside 



