280 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



Sect. A. Fore wings with vein 7 to apex ; hind wings 

 with veins 6 and 7 stalked, 8 free. 



152. Atastlialistis jyiirocosma, n. s. 

 (? , 22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax purplish black. 

 Abdomen and legs dark fuscous, posterior tibiae greyish ochreous. 

 Fore wings elongate-oblong, narrow, apex round-pointed, hind 

 margin sinuate, rather oblique ; black, slightly purplish-tinged ; a 

 rather narrow pale whitish yellow streak close beneath costa from 

 base to four-fifths, leaving costal edge black, attenuated at apex ; 

 a minute yellow-whitish costal dot near beyond apex of this ; a 

 deep orange hind-marginal fascia from apex to anal angle, moderate 

 on costa, gradually attenuated to a point beneath ; an interrupted 

 black hind-marginal line ; cilia deep orange, on costa and beneath 

 anal angle black. Hind wings bright orange ; a large blackish 

 apical patch, bounded by a slightly curved line from three-fifths of 

 costa to middle of hind margin ; hairs of vein 1 h dark grey ; cilia 

 blackish. 



Port Moresby, New Guinea (Mathew) ; several speci- 

 mens. Mr. Mathew states that a number of this species 

 came on board ship whilst still at some distance from 

 land ; he did not meet with the species on shore. In 

 spite of the difference of neuration it cannot be separated 

 generically from the following. 



Sect. B. Fore wings with vein 7 to hind margin ; hind 

 wings with vein 7 remote from 6, rising from upper 

 margin of cell, running into 8. 



153. Atastlialistis tricolor, Feld. 



Ypsolophus tricolor, Feld., Eeis. Nov., pi. cxxxix., 18. 



5 , 22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax blackish fuscous, 

 outer half of patagia yellowish white. Abdomen orange, beneath 

 dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, posterior tibiae pale orange. 

 Fore wings elongate-oblong, narrow, apex round-pointed, hind 

 margin rather oblique, stronglj' sinuate ; blackish fuscous ; a broad 

 vei'y pale whitish yellowish streak along costa from base to near 

 apex, leaving costal edge narrowly blackish from one-fourth 

 onwards, lower edge of this streak shortly indented before middle ; 

 a pale whitish yellowish line along hind margin from above apex 

 to below anal angle, externally margined with a few black scales ; 

 cilia bright orange. Plind wings and cilia bright orange. 



Solomon Islands [Matlieic) ; one specimen. Occurs 

 also in Java. 



