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from I of costa to middle of dorsum, area within this wholly dark 

 fuscous closely irrorated orange-ochreous, beyond it a broad band of 

 irregular scanty dark fuscous irroration, its edge running from | 

 of costa to toruus, with a broad median prominence ; a triangular 

 ochreous-orange spot extending across apex and slenderly produced 

 on termeu to middle, partially edged anteriorly by a slender blackish 

 streak, and preceded by slight whitish suffusion ; cilia glossy groy, 

 a black basal line. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia whitish, a broad 

 grey median shade. 



Perp, 11. Napo, May (Parish) ; 1 ex. 



Brenthia melodica, n. sp. 

 c? . 6 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi with four whorls of dark fus- 

 cous white-tipped scales. Thorax dark fuscous speckled whitish. 

 Forewings dark bronzy-fuscous irregularly speckled whitisli ; a 

 transverse-oval ring of whitish sijeckling on end of cell ; a terminal 

 band formed of three round black blotches confluent on terminal edge, 

 uppermost containing a violet-white dot, a golden-metallic terminal 

 dot between two lower, above uppermost a coppery-ochreous apical 

 spot preceded by a violet-golden-raetallic dot above which is a whitish 

 costal dot : cilia light grey, a dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hind- 

 wings rather dark fuscous ; a ring of whitish speckling in disc before 

 middle ; a golden-ochreous subterminal fascia preceded in middle 

 by a violet-silvery- white transverse mark, and beneath costa preceded 

 and followed by violet-metallic spots; cilia dark fuscous with oblique 

 whitish patches. 



Fiji, mountains near Lautoka, April (Greenivood) ; 1 ex. (Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Brenthia lithocrossa, n. sp. 



5 . 10 mm. Head dark fuscous, sides of face whitish. Palpi 

 white, four dark fuscous bands. Thorax dark fuscous, five faint 

 lines of whitish speckling. Forewings costa bent at |, apex rounded- 

 obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique ; dark fuscous ; two cloudy 

 transverse lines of white speckling towards base; a broad median 

 shade of white speckling, widely interrupted in disc ; beyond tliis 

 a large 8-shaped discal blotch obscurely outlined with wliite speck- 

 ling, connected by a similar bar with dorsum ; a sliglitl}' irregular 

 curved subterminal line of white spetkling; round apex and termen 

 a marginal series of rather large subqnadrate black dots edged 

 anteriorly white and terminally violet-silver-metallic, preceded by 

 a suffused shade of whitish speckling: cilia fuscous, a dark fuscous 

 subbasal shade. Hindwings dark fuscous; a small obli(iue-uval 

 whitish spot in disc before niitklle ; a somewhat irregular sinuate 

 whitish subterminal line; a very fine violet-blue-metallic prai- 

 terminal line, finely and interruptedly edged blackish posteriorly, 

 limiting a fulvous-ochreous terminal line; cilia fuscous, a dark 

 fuscous basal line, tliree oblique wliite patches beyond this. 

 Philippines, Manila ; 1 ex. (Coll. Jo»nnis). 



