278 Mr. E. Meyrick on 



dark fii.<cous ; first and second lines formed l)y black irroratiun, 

 very indistinct, first nearly straight, rather strongly oblique, second 

 angulated above middle, indented beneath costa, followed on costa 

 by a cloudy whitish spot ; si:)ots formed by black irroration, very 

 undefined, orbicular remote from first line, claviform oljlic^ucly 

 l)efore orbicuhu", near first line, discal cloudy: cilia fuscous-whitish, 

 with subbasal and postniedian cloudy fiiscous lines. Hind wings 1|, 

 pale fuscous, becoming darker towards termen ; cilia whitish, with 

 fuscous l)asal line. 



Seven specimens, all in bad condition. An obscure 

 species, but ([uite distinct from anything else; by the 

 form of the narrow forewings it is probably most allied to 

 S. psainmitis. 



PtEROPIIORID/E. 



14. rhdijfiUin irohidrs, n. sp. 



J 9 • 17-22 m.m. Head, i)alpi, and thorax ochreous, variably 

 mixed with whitish and reddish- fuscous, frontal tuft 1 ; palpi 

 nearly 4. Middle tibia? distinctly tufted in middle and at apex. 

 Forewings with apex produced, termen iirominently angulated on 

 vein 3 (middle of second segment) ; reddish-lirown, varying to light 

 reddish-ochreous, variably mixed with whitish and dark fuscous ; 

 costa darker, slrigulatcd with whitish ; a dark reddish-brown sub- 

 triangular spot on costa at |, anteri(n'ly undefined, its apex touching 

 a blackish transverse dot before fissure, posteriorly followed by more 

 or less ochreous-whitish suffusion ; subterminal line sharply dentate, 

 ochreous-whitish, usually nearly obsolete, but in one specimen in 

 which the terminal area is suft'used with dark reddish-brown very 

 conspicuous : cilia reddish-fuscous, barred with whitish, on termen 

 with tips beyond a blackish median line whitish, on dorsum with 

 numerous small projections of black scales and a larger black scale- 

 tooth at -5. Hindwings fuscous : cilia whitish-fuscous, with indistinct 

 darker median line on termen ; on dorsum with rather large un- 

 <lelined black scale-tooth scarcely beyond middle of thii'd segment, 

 and numerous black-tipped ])rojecting scales between this and base. 



Six specimens. Varies considerably in colour; nearest 

 allied to P. falcatalis, but smaller and darker, and readily 

 distinguished by tlie prominent angulation of termen of 

 second segment of forewings (in fahatalis the marjin is 

 somewhat bent but not angulated), and the principal 

 dorsal scale-tuft of hindwings being hardly beyond the 

 middle, whereas in falcatalis it is much broader and is 

 considerably beyond the middle. 



