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towards costa and hind margin ; faint indications of numerous 

 small brownish ochreons spots ; two small tufts of raised black- 

 tipped scales on submedian fold before and beyond middle ; some 

 blackish scales forming an obscure X-shaped mark in disc beyond 

 middle ; cilia ochreous-whitish. somewhat mixed with brownish 

 ochreous (imperfect). Hind wings fuscous-grey, apex whitish ; 

 cilia grey, round apex white. 



Tonga (Mathc/r); Fiji (Lucds) ; two specimens. 



HYPONOMEUTID^. 



Oeta, Grote. 



163. Oeta apicalis, Voll. 



Oeta apicalis, Voll., Tijd. v. Ent., 1863, 139, pi. ix., 5. 



Solomon Islands (Matheiv) ; one specimen. Also 

 from Java. 



Cyathaula, n. g. 



Head smooth, forehead between antennae with dense smooth 

 scales, face very oblique inwards ; no ocelli ; tongue well developed. 

 Antennae tliree-fourths of fore wings, in male subserrate, somewhat 

 pubescent. Labial palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, 

 second joint broad, laterally strongly flattened, with appressed 

 scales, terminal joint as long as second, broad, laterally strongly 

 compressed and externally concave so as to form a longitudinal 

 channel, blunt-pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Abdomen 

 flattened. Posterior tibiae clothed above with long rough strong 

 hairs. Fore wings with vein 1 strongly furcate at base, 3 and 4 

 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from near base of cell. Hind wings slightly 

 narrower than fore wings, elongate-ovate, cilia four-fifths ; all 

 veins separate ; 1 b pectinated towards base. 



164. Cyathaula maculata, n. s. 

 (?, 5, 15 — 18 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, 

 terminal joint in male mixed with greyish ochreous. Antennae 

 white, spotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grej'. Legs 

 white, anterior and middle pair banded with dark fuscous, posterior 

 pair suffused with grey. Fore wings elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin extremely oblique ; white, 

 with about thirty-four small irregularly-scattered ill-defined spots, 

 ochreous in male, grey in female ; all the larger spots contain some 

 black scales ; one on inner margin beyond middle forms a short 

 oblicpie blackish streak ; cilia white, towards anal angle greyish. 



