108 Mr. L. B. Prout on new 
probably also by parasitic habits. The wide range of the 
family points to considerable antiquity, though it seems to 
be absent from Australia. 
Ashmead (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 235, 1900) assigns 
Olixon to the Bethylide, subfamily Emboleminz, but gives 
no reason for placing it in that position, from which the very 
different antennee seem to exclude it at once. It is by no 
means certain that Ashmead had seen specimens. 
VIIL—WNew Geometridee in the Joicey Collection. 
By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 
[Plate VII.] 
In working through the Geometride in the collection of 
Mr. J. J. Joitey I have already come across several novelties, 
some of them of great interest, and as there is now sufficient 
material for a Plate—which Mr. Joicey, with his customary 
munificence, has provided in further elucidation of the species 
and forms—we think it desirable to publish them without 
further delay. As all the types are in his collection, it is 
unnecessary to specify this in each individual case. 
Subfam. @yoczrourv az. 
1. Phellinodes liapicata, sp. n. 
(Pl-VIR tie. .) 
3 .—36 mm. 
Head and body white, slightly clouded with brown and 
irrorated with blackish ; palpus blackish on upper and outer 
side. 
Fore wing white, faintly clouded with brown and with 
moderate blackish irroration, which in places (especially near 
base) shows some tendency to form transverse strigule; a 
slightly curved blackish mark from hind margin nearly to 
M? just proximal to middle of wing; an elongate blackish 
cell-mark accompanied by indications of an irregular median 
line, crossed behind M? by a thick longitudinal dash which 
almost reaches termen and is followed posteriorly by some 
smoky shading ; a large, irregularly bounded apical brown 
spot, posteriorly extending across R?, proximally in places 
almost reaching the cell, at about 4 mm. from apex traversed 
