42 EXOTIC MlCROLEPIDOrXEEA. 



Hierodoris iophanes, n. sp. 



cJ . 13 mm. Head deep bluish-bronze. Palpi bronzy-fiiscous. 

 Thorax deep brouze suftused with purple. Antenuie aud abdomen 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, 

 costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, ai^ex obtuse, termeii 

 rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark bronzy-fuscous ; a shining purple 

 fascia from base of costa almost to dorsum at |, followed by a spot 

 of blackish sufFiision beneath costa, beyond which is a short 

 metallic-blue oblique strigula; a narrow shining purple fascia from 

 a silvery-whitish dot beneath costa before middle to a pale ochreous 

 spot on middle of dorsum ; a pale blue-metallic linear mark on end 

 of cell ; triangular shining purple spots above and below middle 

 beyond this, their anterior angles tending to meet in disc^ an 

 undefined shining purple spot before middle of termen : cilia deep 

 purplish-bronze. Hindwings blackish ; cilia fuscous, with blackish 

 basal shade. 



New Zealand, AYelliugton, in January (Hudson); one specimen. 



Simaethis xanthogramma, n. sp. 



c? 5 . 11-13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous more or less mixed 

 with blackish. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second and terminal joints 

 with basal and subapical blackish rings. Antenna? black dotted 

 with white. Thorax blackish. Abdomen dark fuscous mixed with 

 fulvous-orange. Posterior tibia? whitish-yellowish banded with 

 blackish, tarsi black, base and apex of first two joints, and third 

 joint wholly white. Porewings triangular, costa moderately arched, 

 apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; blackish- 

 fuscous ; a wliitish-ochreous antemedian fascia, anterior edge 

 almost straight, sharply defined, posterior yellower, irregular ; 

 second line thick, orange, on costal edge white, very shortly 

 angulate-looped outwards on median third, enclosing an orange 

 transverse discal spot within the loop ; asutt'used triangular orange 

 costal spot close beyond this; an undefined terminal fascia of 

 orange suffusion : cilia grey, with black basal line. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous; a wedge-shaped orange streak in disc from base 

 to 5 ; in 2 '^^ orange fascia along lower f of termen, in c? almost 

 or quite obsolete; cilia grey-whitish with blackish basal line, 

 greyer towards apex and tornas. 



Philippines, Mindoro, Rio Baco, in October and February 

 (]\Jounsey); New Guinea, Kei Is., in January; four specimens. 



Simaethis anthorma, n. sp. 



2 . 13 mm. Head blackish, a frontal patch and a spot on each 

 side of face ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous- whitish, second and 

 terminal joints with black basal and subapical rings. Antenna) 

 Avhite ringed with black. Thorax blackish, anterior third ochreous- 

 whitish. Abdomen light orange-ochreous suffusedly ringed with 

 dark fuscous. Posterior tibia? pale yellowish banded with blackish, 



