460 
Mr. E. Meyrick’s Descriptions of 
fuscous. Hinclwings in $ light yellowish, sometimes sprinkled 
with fuscous towards tornus, cilia concolorous ; in 5 fuscous, cilia 
whitish-ochreous suffused with fuscous. 
Solomon Is., Cboiseul, New Georgia; three specimens. 
Stcnoma 2 )hasriiatopa, n. sp. 
1 ^. 18-20 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white. Palpi rather 
stout, white, lower half of second joint dark fuscous. Antennal 
ciliations 4. Abdomen hairy above towards base, white, more or 
less tinged with light brownish. Forewings elongate, moderate, 
somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 
termen somewhat rounded, hardly oblique; ochreous-white; mark¬ 
ings light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous ; a small spot on base 
of costa, and two oblique strigulae on costa towards base; an 
elongate mark on fold near base ; plical and first discal stigmata 
small, plical very obliquely beyond first discal; second discal repre¬ 
sented by an irregular spot, connected with middle of costa by an 
oblique streak ; an oblique strigula from costa at f ; a curved line 
near before termen, sometimes interrupted into three segmenis : 
cilia whitish, basal half faintly barred with brownish. Hindwings 
and cilia ochreous white. 
Solomon Is., New Georgia, Gizo (Meek); three 
specimens. 
ETHMIADAE. 
Ethmia praeclara, n. sp. 
$. 33-37 mm. Head grey, with three black dots on base of 
collar. Palpi rather short, especially in grey-whitish, second 
and terminal joints each with black subbasal and subapical bands, 
subapical of second incomplete anteriorly. Antennal ciliations in 
J. Thorax grey with six black dots. Abdomen orange, with 
round black spot on each segment (seven), beneath with two series 
of similar spots. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, slightly oblique ; grey ; 
about nineteen moderate black dots, viz. one in middle of base, two 
subcostal and median near base, one subcostal at i, one towards 
dorsum beneath this, one on fold beyond these, two discal and sub¬ 
dorsal before middle, one on fold beyond middle, one towards costa 
at I, one below middle beyond this, one towards costa at I, one in 
middle beneath this, three approximated in a transver.se series 
below middle beyond this (two upper sometimes confluent), and 
three in a curved transverse series before apex ; eleven black dots 
