Nao and little hnown species of DrcpannlicLv, etc. GOl 



Type, N. Guinea in 0. M, 



Type {titania), N. Guinea in Mus. Dresden. 



Type (s'pJicVristis), Fly River, N. Guinea, in Melbourne 



' Mus. 

 Type {nivea), Ke' Isl. in coll. Rothschikl. 

 Type (ohsolcscens $ $), from Woodlark Isl. and Eguni 

 Isl. in ditto. 



Type {unipunctct), Goodenough Isl. in ditto. 

 Type (inuUigutiata), Am in ditto. 



The number of spots on the margin is the character 

 on which these types are based, but it is not a specific 

 character, hardly any two specimens having the same 

 number. 



Family BOARMIIDiE. 



Subfamily OURArTER YGIN^E. 



OURAPTERYX CRETEA, nov. 



$ . Of a chalky wliite colour ; fore-wmgs with a creamy grey 

 streak across end of cell, and internal and external transverse thick 

 lines of tlie same coloui", much as in snbjjnnctaria, Leech, and similaria, 

 Leech : hind-wings with a short medial tran.sverse creamy grey line 

 as in similaria, two spots one above and the other below the base 

 of the tail, the upper one pink, inwardly ringed with black, the 

 lower one a black dot: both wings with ochreous grey cilia and 

 submarginal fascia formed of pale grey striations ; on the hind-wings 

 this fascia is further away from the margin than it is in similaria. 

 Expanse of wings IjV inches. 



ITah. Ojigoku. Japan, four examples, all females. 



Thinopteryx delectans. 



Thinopteryx delectans, Butler, 111. Het., ii, p. 45, pi. 35, 



fig. 2 (1878). 

 Thinopteryx marginata, Warr., Nov. Zool., vi, p. 43 (1899). 



Type, Yokohama in B. M. 



Type (rnarginata $ ), China in coll. Rothschild. 



The type of marginata is smaller than delectans. The 

 size seems to vary much, but otherwise the two forms are 

 identical. 



