250 Mr. E. Meyrick's (lesn-ijUions of 



dark fuscous. Abdomen orange-yellow, in male with two dark 

 fuscous spots at base of anal segment, in female somewhat mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Legs in male wholly pale yellowish, tuft of 

 anterior femora mixed with grey ; in female dark fuscous, apex of 

 all joints pale yellowish. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, 

 costa sinuate, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind 

 margin bowed, oblique ; dark fuscous ; lines hardly paler, obscurely 

 marguied on discal side with darker ; first Ime hardly perceptible ; 

 a yellowish dot beneath costa at one-fourth, and a second beneath 

 costa before middle ; an obscure dark discal suffusion ; second line 

 starting fe-om a very small yellowish spot on costa at three-fourths, 

 somewhat siniaate, running to near anal angle, thence widely 

 broken inwards to below middle of disc, terminating on inner 

 margin at two-thirds ; cilia dark fuscous. Hind wings and cilia 

 dark fuscous ; second line much as in fore wings, but not forming 

 a costal spot. 



The yellow abdomen is a characteristic feature. 

 Samoa (Matheic) ; two specimens. 



98. Strepsimela signiferalis, Wallgr. 



Isopteryx signiferalis, Wallgr., Wien. Ent. Mon., 1860, 

 175 ; ? Ceratoclasis harbicornis, Feld., Reis. Nov., 

 pi. cxxxvi., 1. 



^ 21 — 22 mm., ? 19 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, face 

 sometimes whitish ochreous in male. Palpi white, becoming 

 fuscous towards apex. Antennae whitish ochreous. Abdomen 

 fuscous, sides more or less suffused with ochreous-yellow. Legs 

 yellow-whitish, hair-pencil from beneath anterior femora of male 

 black. Fore wings triangular, broader in male, costa in male 

 unevenly protuberant at one-third, sinuate in middle, in female 

 nearly straight anteriorly, moderately arched posteriorly, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded ; vein 11 in male bent 

 towards costal protuberance and widely remote from 10; rather 

 dark fuscous, anteriorly more or less mixed with ochreous-yeUowish 

 or whitish; first line indistinct, whitish or yellowish, posteriorly 

 obscurely margined with dark fuscous, ffom one-fourth of costa to 

 one-third of inner margin, somewhat curved ; a small transverse, 

 in male linear, clear white spot in disc beyond first line, laterally 

 margined with dark fuscous ; a narrow transverse, in male long 

 inwards-curved, in female sometimes roundish white spot in middle 

 of disc, anteriorly margined with dark fuscous ; second line 

 irregular, whitish or yellowish, rather well-defiued, anteriorly 



