Lepidoptera from. Nciv Guinea. 477 



grey-whitish. Legs dark grey, tibiae irrorated with white, apex of 

 tarsal joints white. Fore wmgs elongate- triangular, costa gently 

 arched, sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, hind margin hardly 

 oblique, somewhat rounded ; white, more or less wholly suffused 

 with pale greyish-oclireous except on costa ; costa very narrowly 

 spotted with dark fuscous, with a larger cloudy spot about middle ; 

 first line slender, dark fiiscous, hardly traceable except in disc, 

 where it makes a very strong dentation below middle ; second line 

 slender, dark fuscous, with a series of blackish dots forming teeth 

 on posterior edge, from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of 

 inner margin, slightly curved outwards, sinuate beneath costa ; 

 siibterminal indicated by some faint darker clouds ; cilia fuscous, 

 basal half barred with whitish. Hind wings whitish, apex broadly 

 suffused with rather dark fuscous, attenuated to a point above anal 

 angle ; cilia fuscous, tips whitish. 



Four specimens (Sayer). 



HoMODES, Gn. 



70. Homodes iomolyhda, n. s. 



(J , 29 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 orange-ferruginous. Legs ochreous-yellowish, tibige sixffused with 

 ferruginous. Fore wings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin waved, rather obliquely rounded ; ferruginous- 

 orange, costa and inner margin more reddish ; a dark purple 

 leaden-metallic dot beneath costa near base, a second beneath it, 

 and a third beneath costa at one-fifth ; four dark purple leaden- 

 metallic slender lines ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of 

 inner margin, somewhat irregular ; second nearly parallel to first ; 

 third from middle of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, strongly 

 curved outwards, rather irregularly subdentate ; fourth near and 

 parallel to hind margin, interrupted on veins, margined anteriorly 

 with deeper orange ; a faint purplish shade near beyond and 

 parallel to third line ; a submarginal series of subcresceutic black 

 marks between veins ; a fine black hind-marginal line ; ciha light 

 ferruginous-reddish. Hind wings with ground colour and markings 

 as in fore wings, but dots near base and first line absent ; thn-d line 

 less curved, shade following it marked with two or three faint 

 grey spots. 



Dinner Island, in July {Kowald); one specimen. 



