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88. Acidalia homodoxa, Meyr. 



Port Moresby {Kowald, Sayer) ; seven specimens. In 

 the British Museum collection specimens of this species 

 from the Solomon Islands have been placed under 

 A. impersonata, Walk., with which, however, they are by 

 no means identical. 



89. Acidalia jmrasira, n. s. 



^ ? , 20 — 23 mm. Head yellow-ocbreous, fillet whitish, face 

 blackish-fuscous. Palpi ascending, blackish fuscous, beneath 

 whitish-ochreous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, in 3' serrate, cilia- 

 tions 2. Thorax and abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, collar tinged 

 with yellow-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior pair some- 

 what infuscated ; posterior tibis in ^ much dilated, rough-scaled 

 above, without spurs, in ? with all spurs present, posterior tarsi in 

 ^ three-fifths. Fore wings with costa posteriorly moderately 

 arched, hind margin waved, rounded, rather oblique ; whitish- 

 ochreous, with some fine scattered black scales ; lines darker 

 ochreous; first from one-third of costa to one-third of inner 

 margin, angulated beneath costa, often very indistinct ; a black 

 discal dot, much before median ; median from two-thirds of costa 

 to beyond middle of inner margin, more or less cloudj^, sometimes 

 dentate, slightly curved, sinuate inwards above middle and above 

 inner margin ; second from four-fifths of costa to tlxree-fourths of 

 inner margin, slightly curved, slender, dentate, often marked with 

 grey dots on dentations, sinuate inwards above middle and above 

 inner margin ; subtei'minal paler, cloudy, ill-defined ; submarginal 

 very faint, cloudy ; a hind-marginal series of black dots ; cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous. Hind wings with hind margin roimded ; vems 

 6 and 7 short-stalked ; colour, second line, and posterior markings 

 as in fore wings ; median line as in fore wings but straight, and 

 before middle ; a black discal dot near beyond this. 



Port Moresby, Slate and Dinner Islands (Koivald) ; six 

 specimens. Belongs to the second group of the genus, 

 and to the immediate neighbourhood of A . recessata, to 

 which it is closely allied, differing in the relatively 

 longer posterior tarsi of <? , the more ochreous markings 

 and head, less oblique median line, and other details. 



90. Acidalia recessata, Walk. 



One specimen {Sayer). Common throughout Eastern 

 Australia. 



