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tending to form tufts. Abdomen stout, in male with tuft of short 

 hairs above apex, valves strong, exserted, scaled. Posterior tibiae 

 with outer spurs about one-thu'd of inner. Fore wings with vein 

 10 closely approximated to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings rather 

 broader than fore wings ; veins 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at 

 base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to one-third ; 

 lower median, la, Ih, and Ic all with strong pectinations; under 

 surface in male with a dense downwards-curved cushion of hairs 

 covering veins 7 and 8 from near base to middle, and a cushion of 

 short erect hairs along basal half of 1 c. 



101. AutJiaretis eridora, n. s. 

 (? , 2 , 36 mm. Head and antenna fuscous. Palpi fuscous, 

 apex darker, basal joint white. Thorax fuscous, purplish-tinged, 

 dense anterior hah-s suffused with reddish ochreous. Abdomen 

 fiascous. Legs white, anterior pair with apical half of tibise and 

 two terminal joints of tarsi blackish. Fore wings rather elongate- 

 triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, hind 

 margm oblique, somewhat bowed; fuscous, withpm-ple reflections; 

 first line hardly darker, from one-fifth of costa to one-foui'th of 

 inner margin ; two white violet-shining dark-margined spots trans- 

 versely placed in disc before middle, upper small, transverse-oval 

 lower larger, quadi-ate ; second line hardly darker, rather irregular, 

 from costa at two-thirds, bent at right angles below middle and 

 continued to touch posterior margin of lower discal spot, thence 

 again rectangularly bent and running to inner margin at three- 

 fifths, latter portion curved outwards ; this line margined pos- 

 teriorly on upper third by three small roundish confluent purplish 

 white spots not touching costa, on median third by three separate 

 white dots, on lower third by a faint whitish streak ; cilia light 

 fuscous, with a darker line, extreme base whitish. Hind wings 

 with ground colour and cilia as in fore wmgs ; an irregular white 

 interrupted line fi'om costa at three-fifths, dilated towards costa, 

 widely dislocated inwards in middle, ending on inner margin before 

 anal angle. 



Fiji {Mathew, Lucas) ; two specimens. 



Pelecyntis, Mcyr. 



102. Pelecyntis ohstitalis, Walk. 



Port Moresby, New Guinea {MatJiew) ; Fiji (Lucas). 

 Occurs also in Eastern Australia, New Hebrides, Celebes, 

 Ceylon, and India. 



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