150 J. HARTLEY DURRANT ON MICROLEPIDOPTERA 



median joint rather longer than the terminal, which is acute ; dirty yellowish, nmch 

 shaded with purplish fuscous on their outer sides, and on the terminal joint. Head 

 smooth, smoky fuscous ; face paler. Thorax dark smoky fuscous. Foreivings, with 

 the costa moderately straight, apex depressed, rounded, termen oblique, tornus rounded ; 

 dark purplish fuscous at the base, along the costa, and at the apex and termen ; from 

 the dorsum at about one-third arises a bright orange-yellow band, reaching to two- 

 thirds and tending obliquely outward to the commencement of the costal cilia ; this 

 band is much broken-up by narrow lines of the dark ground-colour, marking the direc- 

 tion of the veins and terminating in a dentate transverse fascia of the same colour, 

 beyond which an equally dentate line of orange-yellow separates it from the terminal 

 and apical area ; a slender pale yellow marginal line precedes the richly purple cilia, 

 which are faintly tipped with pale yellowish. Exp. al. 15-17 mm. Hindwings broader 

 than the forewings ; bright orange-yellow, the same dentate bands passing across them 

 before the dark purplish fuscous terminal area, but even more accentuated than in 

 the forewings, with the same slender yellowish line at their base, a narrower deeper 

 purple band, which is also visible in the forewings, clearly indicated throughout ; 

 the pattern and colouring is repeated throughout on the underside of the wings. 

 Abdomen orange-yellow, with smoky fuscous annulations preceding the fuscous terminal 

 segments. Legs bright orange-yellow, with fuscous bands before the second pair of 

 spurs, and four or five similar bands across the tarsi. 



Ttjpe <? (42334) ; ? (42335) Bon, Mus. Wlsm., B.M. 



//ff6.— Ron Id., Geelvink Bay, July 1897 (W. Doherty) ; Kapaur, Dec. 1896— Feb. 

 1897 {W. DoJiertij); Base Camp, Utakwa R., Nov. 1912— Jan. 1913 {A. F. R. Wol- 

 laston). Twelve specimens, ij 33, 7 ??. 



DiASCEPsis, gen. n. (Drnt.) 



{Sid(rK€ijji<s = close examination) 

 Type : Diascepsis fascinata Dint. 

 Antennae longer than the forewings, densely clothed with long rough scales along 

 the anterior edge in both sexes ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, re- 

 curved, median joint with appressed scales, slightly roughened on lower edge ; terminal 

 joint as long, or longer than median, smooth, acute. Maxillary Palpi minute. Haus- 

 tellmn. well developed. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, apex pointed, termen obhque, slightly simiate : neuration 10 veins, 2 -f 3, 

 and 7-1-8 coincident ; (2 -1- 3) and 4 stalked, 5 out of their stalk ; (7 -f 8) and 9 

 stalked, to costa, 10 out of their stalk ; 6 straight, radial ; 1 basally furcate. Hind- 

 wings slightly broader than the forewings, elongate-trapezoidal, termen oblique, apex 

 not produced : neuration 7 veins, 3 -|- 4 coincident : 6-7 stalked ; discoidal weak ; 

 (3 -|- 4) and 5 stalked. Abdomen moderate. Legs : front tibiae outwardly thickened 



