256 Mr. E. Meyrick's desc7iptions of 



white, with an indistinct roundish fuscous suffusion before hind 

 margin in middle ; ciUa white, with a yellow-ochreous basal line. 



Fiji (Matheir) ; one specimen. 



COMPSOPHILA, n. g. 

 Forehead rounded, oblique ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. 

 Antenn'cE two-thirds of fore wings, in male moderately ciliated (1), 

 with angularly projecting scales at joints. Labial palpi moderately 

 long, straight, porrected, second joint clothed with long loosely 

 appressed hairs projecting in front, terminal joint concealed. 

 Maxillary palpi short, clothed with rough projecting scales. Abdo- 

 men in male with small anal tuft, valves retracted. Posterior 

 tibiae with outer spurs three-fourths of inner. Fore wings with 

 vein 10 approximated to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad 

 as fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near 

 origin, anastomosing with 8 from origin to middle. 



Of doubtful affinity. 



106. Compsophila iocosma, n. s. 



^ , 24 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, and legs white ; anterior 

 legs banded with light yellow-ochreous. Palpi whitish, mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen white, on basal half irrorated with 

 dark fuscous, and suffused with crimson towards base. Fore wings 

 elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex rect- 

 angular, hind margin very obliquely rounded; light yellow- 

 ochreous, mixed with crimson, and thinly and irregularly iiTorated 

 with dark fuscous ; costa suffused with white from one-third to 

 apex ; base of wing narrowly white ; a moderate straight white 

 fascia fi-om two-fifths of costa to before middle of inner margin, 

 ground colour on each side of it suffused with crimson below 

 middle ; a suffused white spot in disc at two-thirds ; a moderately 

 broad white hind-marginal band, containing a triangular patch of 

 ground colour on hind margin beneath apex ; cilia white. Hind 

 wings light yellowish ochreous, irrorated with crimson and dark 

 fuscous ; base narrowly white ; a moderately broad straight white 

 fascia from before middle of costa to before anal angle ; a mode- 

 rately broad white hind-marginal band, attenuated to a point near 

 anal angle ; cilia white. 



Fiji (Lucas) ; one specimen. 



