146 EXOTIC MICKOLEPIDOl'TKRA. 



PLUTJiLLID.E. 



Tonza callicitra, n. sp. 



J . 17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale brassy-j'ellow, crown 

 yellow-whitish. Abdomen yellow-whitish. Forewings elongate, 

 very narrow^ dilated towards apes, apex rounded-prominent, termeu 

 sinuate, little oblique, tornus somewhat prominent ; pale brassy- 

 yellow ; a whitish streak in disc from towards base through cell, 

 then expanded into a triangle reaching to apex and tornus, but 

 leaving veins throughout yellow, and sharply strigulated with dark 

 fuscous on its margins and between veins ; black dots at apex and 

 tornus : cilia pale yellowish, outer half brown. Hindwings whitish, 

 posteriorly suffused with pale yellowish ; cilia white, at apex with 

 a bar of pale yellowish sufi'usion. 



Solomon Is., Bougainville (Ji^'fA-) ; two specimens. Very similar 

 to citrorrhoa and purell a, but with termen of forewings less concave 

 and tornus less jjrominent than in citrorrhoa, termen less oblique 

 and tornus more prominent than in jjiireUa ; differs from both in 

 yellow dorsal area of forewings. 



Saridoscelis nudata, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen white. Anterior 

 tibiae not thickened. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly 

 someAvhat dilated, costa posteriorly geutl)' arched, apex pointed, 

 termen somewhat sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; shining white ; 

 costal edge dai'k fuscous towards base ; two triangular brown 

 dorsal spots mixed with black, first before middle, oblique, acute, 

 reaching nearly half across wing, second before tornus, more 

 flattened, sending from its apex a line of a few blackish scales to 

 apex of wing, where it forms a short acutely angulated fine black 

 line just within apex ; an oblitjue grey strigula on costa at 4 : cilia 

 white, with a faint grej- subapical line. Hindwings whitish-grey ; 

 cilia white. 



S. India, Nilgiris, Pykara, 7000 feet, in April (Andi-eiues). 

 Rather larger than sphenias, with much reduced dark markings and 

 paler hindwings, and differing also by absence of dense scaling on 

 anterior legs. 



SPYRIDARCHA, n. g. 



Head with loose rough hairs, projecting in a long fringe over 

 forehead, face smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue short. Antenna; 4, 

 basal joint moderately long, flattened, with strong dense pecten of 

 scales. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint with 

 loose somewhat projecting scales at apex beneath, terminal joint as 

 long as second, hardly roughened ant-(>riorly, pointed. Maxillary 

 l»alpi short, slender, tiliform, porrected. Posterior tibiae clothed 



