GLYPniPTERTGTD.T:. 617 



slijijht-ly rounderl, nearly vertical ; 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to apex ; 

 shilling snow-white: cilia white. Hindwiiigs white, dorsum folded 

 and pro'lnced into a strong folded torual projection filled with 

 hairs ; cilia, white. 



Fiji, Dreketi R., September, at light (Simmonds) ; 1 ex. (Brit. 

 Mus.). A surprising species, quite exceptional in the genus by the 

 snow-white colouring, yet with the same peculiar sexual structure 

 as in autodoxa, to which therefore it must be most nearly allied. 



Clioreutis phalaraspis, n. sp. 



c?. 11 mm. Head, thorax greyish-bronze. Palpi basal joint 

 white, second joint greyish-bronze, tips of whorls whitish, terminal 

 joint grey speckled white. Forewings elongate-triaiigular, costa 

 arched at |. termen somewhat obliquely rounded; ochreous-bronze 

 suffused dark fuscous excey)t on apical third ; a broad irregular 

 antemedian band of whitish irroration not reaching costa, preceded 

 and followed by grecnish-silverj' marks on fold ; bright violet- 

 silvery markings, viz. a streak beneath costa near base and shorter 

 median and subdorsal marks below this, a transverse mark from a 

 white dot on costa at ^, a dot beneath middle of costa, two specks 

 transversely placed on end of cell, a slightly curved transverse 

 streak from a white dot on costa at |- to near tornus interrupted in 

 middle, a slight mark near termen beyond tornus, a short mark 

 from a white dot on costa at |, and a streak near and parallel to 

 upper half of termen preceded by some dark fuscous suffusion : 

 cilia on termen whitish with dark fuscous basal and postmedian 

 shades, at apex and termen dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark 

 grey; a "white transverse mark towards termen below middle; cilia 

 whitish with dark gre}' basal and postmedian shades, at apex and 

 termen grey. 



KuMiOK, Ramgarh, 6000 feet, August {Fletcher) ; 1 ex. 



PICRODOXA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior ; tongue obsolete. 

 Antennte |, in S shortly ciliated, basal joint short, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi short (shorter in 5 )» slender, curved, ascending, 

 terminal joint in S considerably, in 5 somewhat longer than 

 second, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, filiform, drooping. Posterior 

 tibiae shortly rough-scaled above. Forewings 1 h furcate, 2 from |, 

 3 from angle, 7 to termen, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, 

 clongate-tra])ozoidal, narroAved towards base, cilia | ; 3 and 4 

 stalked, 5 and 6 rather approximated towards base, 7 parallel. 



An early form of the family. 



Picrodoxa harpodes, n. sp. 

 d 2 . 16-1. S mm. Head ochreous-orange. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish streaked dark fuscous. Thorax dark purple-fuscous. 

 Abdomen in J ochreous-orange, two basal segments lilac-fuscous, 



