COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 155 



admixture of cinereous above. Thorax whitish ochreous, tinged with yellowish on the 

 patagia and tegulae. Forewings with the costa raised and tending to be folded along 

 the middle third ; olive-ochreous, with a whitish ochreous costal cloud, and with three 

 irregular transverse lines of white scales, mixed with bluish leaden grey beyond the 

 basal third ; the first line, originating from the inner side of a leaden grey reniform 

 costal spot, forms the inner margin of the costal cloud and, by an outward extension, 

 limits it also along the cell, becoming trifid from the cubitus to the dorsum ; the second 

 line, interrupted below three leaden costal spots, is continued obliquely above and 

 beyond the cell to a point midway between the somewhat conspicuous white discal 

 spot and the termen, where it is angulated to the dorsum, becoming bifid at the fold ; 

 the third line is rather broad along the termen, becoming narrower and bent toward 

 the costa before the apex, and preceded by a suffusion of olivaceous-fuscous scaling, 

 some scaling of the same colour occurring also along the costa toward the base ; cilia 

 fuscous, changing to shining leaden grey. Exp. al. 22 mm. Hindwincjs fuscous ; cilia 

 shining, whitish, with a narrow dark line near their base. Abdomen fuscous, posteriorly 

 tinged with olivaceous, anal tuft yellowish olivaceous. Legs shining, whitish ; hind 

 tibiae with appressed clothing. 



Types (350355) B.M. 



Hah. Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. Unic|ue. 



Olethreutes talaris, sp. n. (Drut.) 

 Antennae fuscous. Palpi whitish ochreous, fuscous at the base ; the median joint 

 fuscous at its base, a small triangidar spot on its upper edge and a transverse patch 

 of the same colour before its apex ; terminal joint fuscous. Head and Thorax ohvaceous, 

 mixed with ochreous and fuscous, the tegulae ferruginoiis. Forewings ohvaceous 

 ochreous, variegated mth fuscous and leaden grey ; the costa dark fuscous with, seven 

 pairs of obUque whitish ochreous streaks, from which transverse leaden grey markings 

 originate ; on the middle of the wing, between the second and third pairs of costal 

 geminations, commences an irregular fuscous fascia, on its outer side indented below 

 the costa, but produced above and below the whitish ochreous discal spot — there is 

 also a small outward angulation on the fold ; on its inner margin this fascia is indented 

 below the costa, on the radius, and within the cell, where the extension of the ground- 

 colour almost divides the fascia into opposite spots, while it is outwardly angulate 

 above the fold ; a basal patch of the ground-colour is Hmited by a fuscous fascia, 

 darker and more distinct above the cell, its inner margin somewhat evenly rounded, 

 its outer margin outwardly angulate on the cell and indented on vein 1 ; the leaden 

 grey transverse stripe from the third and fourth pairs of costal geminations is more 

 or less distinctly edged with ochreous on either side, and followed by about eight longi- 

 tudinal fuscous streaks before the erect, ochreous-edged, leaden grey tornal patch 

 and the leaden grey stripe from the fifth pair of costal geminations ; ciha ohvaceous 



