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beneath white towards base. Antennae whitish, spotted with dark 

 fuscous. Legs whitish, anterior and middle pairs banded with 

 dark fuscous. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa slightly 

 sinuate, gently arched posteriorly, apex obtuse, hind margin 

 bowed, rather strongly oblique ; whitish, more or less coarsely and 

 irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous, sometimes wholly tinged 

 with grey ; markings blackish ; four or five small spots on posterior 

 half of costa ; lines well-marked, rather irregular ; first from one- 

 third of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, somewhat curved out- 

 wards; second from three -fourths of costa almost to anal angle, 

 thence abruptly bent round to beneath middle of disc, and again 

 abruptly bent to inner margin at two-thirds, sinuate inwards above 

 middle ; two subquadrate spots more or less completely outlined 

 in disc between these ; a cloudy hind-marginal line ; cilia whitish, 

 with two cloudy dark fuscous lines, and more or less obscurely 

 barred with fuscous on basal half. Hind wings with colour, 

 second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings ; a small 

 blackish discal spot, touching bend of second line. 



Port Moresby {Kowald) ; ten specimens. 



HYDROCAMPIDiE. 

 Paeaponyx, Hh. 

 167. Paraponyx turhata, Butl. 

 Port Moresby (Kowald) ; one specimen. 



SCHCENOBIUS, Tr. 



In the fore wings vein 11 sometimes anastomoses with 

 12 ; but both anastomosis and separation occasionally 

 occur in the same species. 



168. Schoenohius chionotus, n. s. 

 (J , 15 — 18 mm. Head, palpi, antennte, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs white ; palpi 4 ; antennal ciliations 1 ; anterior legs dark grey 

 above. Fore wings elongate-oblong, posteriorly somewhat dilated, 

 costa hardly arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin slightly 

 sinuate, oblique ; 11 anastomosing with 12 ; snow-white, uni- 

 colorous. Hind wings snow-white. 



Port Moresby {Kowald) ; two specimens. Superficially 

 this species appears to be an ordinary Scirpophaga, but 

 structurally it is a true Schcenohius. 



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