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Hinfliring : with rounded apex aud well-ronuded hindmargin ; abdomina] 

 margin thickened and contorted, heavily fringed with hair, the submediau interval 

 before it furrowed and containing dense rows of hairs. 



Anal segments of abdomen shaggy, with greatly developed tufts of hair ; 

 palpi porrect, short and thick, terminal segment minute ; antennae bluntly sub- 

 serrate beneath, with a pair of sessile tufts of cilia from each side of each segment ; 

 tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae with four spurs. 



Netiration : forewing, cell less than half the length of wing ; discocejlnlar 

 vertical above, oblique below ; first median nervule at about one-half, second close 

 before third; radials normal; 7, 8, 9 stalked from close before end ; 10 and 11 

 from cell, 10 anastomosing with 11 and again with 8, 9, forming a double areole : 

 hindwing, costal anastomosing with subcostal nearly to end of cell, 6, 7 stalked. 



Type : Paracomucha chali/bearia Moore (Cidaria). 



Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGINAE. 

 15. Cryptoloba dentifascia spec. nov. 



Fori'wing : pale ochreous, washed with yellowish, in the ? sometimes with 

 flesh-colour, finely speckled with dark atoms ; crossed by two vertical, but fiexuons, 

 olive-brown bands, at one-third and two-thirds ; the first roundly bent outwards 

 below the median and angled inwards on submedian fold; the second broadened 

 below middle and forming three outward teeth on veins 2, 3, 4, more acute and 

 prominent in the d than in the ? ; both bands are enlarged on costa and are 

 interruptedly edged with blackish ; a snbmarginal dark shade, and dark oblique 

 snbapical streak ; fringe yellow, with dark grey mottling beyond veins ; a slight 

 cell-spot. 



Hindwing : coarsely dappled with grey, with the outer band marked in grey, 

 mainly in lower half of wing ; the inner band indicated. 



Underside with the bands and speckling dark grey. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, grey speckled. 



Expanse of wings : S, 22 mm. ; ? , 20 mm. 



Several of both sexes from the Palnis Hills. 



Resembles bifasciata Hmpsn., but that species has the hindwings dark with 

 pale bands. 



Subfamily BRACCINAE. 

 10. Xanthomima isabellina spec nov. 



The form occurring in Isabel Island is intermediate between disrupta Warr. 

 from Alu, and partita from Guadalcanar. It agrees with the latter in having all 

 the black markings thick, and the yellow areas restricted ; but the antemedian 

 yellow blotch is much narrower than in partita, roughly semi-elliptical in shape, 

 while the outer blotch is larger and as in disrupta reaches almost to costa ; in 

 the marginal area a macular bluish shade is present, forming a yellow blotch 

 between veins 3 and 4. In the hindwing this yellow blotch alone is present, 

 without the bluish shade. In one example a large black cell-spot is visible before 

 the cross-bar of the hindwing. 



2 J cJ, Isabel Island, June— July 1902 (A. S. Meek). 



