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Uliura gen. nov. 



c?. Foreunng : elongate; costa straight, except at apex, which is blniit . 

 hiiidmargin oblique, scarcely curved, crenulate. 



Hindtving : with curved and crenulate hindmargin. 



Abdomen hairy beneath, as in Gasterocome Warr. ; anal sheaths largely 

 devoloped and hairy ; hindfemur hairy, its lower end with a tuft of hairs from 

 each side ; hindtibia swollen, concealing a pencil of hair ; antennae strongly 

 bipectinate nearly to the tips ; palpi porrect, short, rongh-liaired, terminal segment 

 invisible ; frenulum well developed ; tongue absent (? broken off), no fovea. 



Neuration : forewiug, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical above, 

 oblique below; first median nervule a little beyond middle; second close before 

 third ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9, stalked; 10 from cell; 11 out of 12; hindwing, 

 costal and subcostal closely approximated for half of cell ; 3 and 7 just before end 

 of cell ; vein 2 at three-fonrths. 



Type : Uliura paUidimargo spec. nov. 



The genus is a development of Poecilalcis Warr. 



19. Uliura paUidimargo spec. nov. 



Foreiving : ochreous, covered with confluent olive-brown strigae, so that the 

 wing ajipears brownish fuscous ; lines blackish ; first at one-fourth, slightly curved 

 above and below median vein, preceded by a diffuse dark cloud ; outer line from 

 three-fourths of costa to just beyond middle of inner margin, oblique parallel to 

 hindmargin, but forming a sinus inwards between the subcostal vein and veiu 6, 

 and a second between veins 1 and 2, followed by a dark shade ; cell-spot black, 

 lying in a dift'use median shade which touches outer line on inner margin ; 

 submarginal line pale, zigzag, preceded by a dark shade, interrupted below vein 4 

 by a large quadrate cream-coloured marginal blotch, continued, but narrower and 

 striated with darker to anal angle ; a row of marginal black lunules ; fringe dark 

 and light fuscous, with pale base ; inner margin with a ferruginous tinge near base 

 and before anal angle. 



Hindwing : dirty ochreous, with an olive tinge and striated with olive-fuscous ; 

 dark antemedian, postmedian, and submarginal Hues, all plainest on inner margin, 

 the postmedian dentate-lunulate ; marginal line blackish ; fringe olive-ochreous. 



Underside much paler ; the forewing with grey-brown striae and suffusion ; 

 the hindwing nearly pure ochreous. 



Head and thorax olive-fuscous ; palpi the same, dotted with ochreous ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the basal segments speckled, the rest blotched with olive- 

 fuscous, the anal tufts and the underside, as well as the legs, ochreous ; femoral 

 tufts fuscous ; forelegs fuscous, vrith pale joints. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



1 c? from Tonkin, Montes Manson, April— May, 2000—3000 ft. (Frnhstorfer). 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 

 20. Hyperythra rubricata and ab. decolor nov. 



Hyperythra lutea rubrimla, Warr,, X:n\ Zunl. v. p. 1^5. 

 Hyperythra rubricata Swiuh., Trails. E S. 1902, p. 612. 



Having seen specimens of both sexes of this insect from Towusville, 

 Queensland, bred by Mr. Dodd, I am satisfied that it is a good species, quite 

 distinct from ennomaria Guen. 



