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Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 

 17. Elphos picaria spec. nov. 



Forewing : white, thickly mottled with black granular spots ; first line double, 

 the centre white, the outer arm thick and lilack, outcurved above and below median; 

 a ditfuse smoky black elongate blotch from middle of costa along the discocellnlar 

 to vein 4, the discocellnhir itself in the centre remaining paler ; a strong black 

 Innnlate-dentate outer line edged with white, followed by a smoky black shade, 

 interrupted below vein 3 and marked with a black streak along submedian fold 

 (snbmarginal line showing white and zigzag through the blackish apical area). 



lliii(hcii(y : with a cloudy black cell-spot; the outer and snbmarginal lines both 

 much broken and dislocated; a slight smoky shade at apex; thick black lunules 

 along hindmargin interrupted by white at the veins ; fringe white. 



Underside with the mottlings more confluent, the lines much broken; cell-spots 

 black ; a broad blackish snbmarginal fascia extended to margin beyond cell. 



Head and thorax smoky grey ; palpi paler ; abdomen whitish grey, with the 

 segments marked darker along dorsum. 



Exjjanse of wings : 78 mm. 



1 ? from Sawangan, North Celebes. 



Entirely without any ochreous or olive tints, simply black and white. 



18. Ophthalmodes albata spec. nov. 



Forewing : white, speckled with olive-grey ; the lines and shades olive-fuscous ; 

 first line at one-fourth, blackish, twice curved above median, then retracted inwards 

 and obsolescent, preceded by a slight smoky cloud ; the whole basal area within 

 it slightly greenish tinged ; a similar median line, likewise obsolescent below 

 middle ; cell-mark large, crescentic, with dark edges ; outer line at two-thirds, 

 concisely dentate-lunulate, followed by a deep olive-fuscous shade, which fills up 

 tlie lunules externally, leaving a narrow paler line with long teeth along the veins ; 

 tliis line and shade are interrujjted by the pale gronnd-colnur only between veins 

 1 and 2 ; snbmarginal line concisely zigzag, jireceded and followed by darker 

 shades, the whole marginal space beyond outer line being smoky olive-fuscous, 

 except along margin below vein 4 and along submedian interval ; a row of 

 distinct dark marginal lunules ; fringe olive-grey, beyond the veins mottled with 

 paler. 



Hindiving : similar, but the whole base white, without inner line ; the space 

 beyond outer line remaining whitish ; the double lunnle beyond cell in the 

 postmedian shade large and conspicuous. 



Underside dull white ; forewing with apical third black ; hindwiug with a 

 subapical black band from costa to vein 4 ; both wings with black cell-spots, 

 that of forewing large. 



Palpi olive-fuscous, edged with whitish : face olive-fuscous, paler above and 

 below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish sprinkled with olive-grey, the abdomen 

 on basal segments with pairs of grey spots ; abdomen beneath and legs white ; 

 antennae dark fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



1 c? from the Upper Palembang district, Sumatra (Villcker). 



Nearest to exemptaria Wlk. and claruria Wlk., but quite distinct, especially 

 on the underside. 



