342 On neic Sped s of Zndc-Malayan Lepidoptera. 

 Family Pyraustidae. 



]\fAEGAE ONIINM. 



]\rargaronia alhoscapulalis, nov. 

 Glyphodes alhoscapulalis^ Kenrick, MS. 



(J $ . Upperside : head and shoulders black ; a white spot 

 on the collar; body black, a short tuft of white hairs on each 

 side from the base of the thorax : fore wings black ; a white 

 spot below the costa a little before its middle ; a hiro'e, oval, 

 discal white patch as in M. dofeschall, Lederer : hind wings 

 white, with a broad black band, narrowest on the costa, very 

 broad at the apex, narrowin.g somewhat iiindwards to the 

 anal angle. Underside : palpi and body white ; a])domen of 

 the male with some black marks, anal tuft black, of the 

 female with the lower half black ; legs white. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? , lY'o~lfo' i^cii. 



JJaJ>. Ekeiki, Mt. Kebea, Brit. Cent. N. Guinea. 



A tine series of both sexes, allied to M. doleschalf, Lederer, 

 but is easily distinguishable by its white hind wings, dole- 

 schaU having black hind wings, with a very large, almost 

 round, white spot. 



Syleptin^. 



Sylepta zariahs, nov. 



^. Cream-coloured, almost pure white, but not shining; 

 palpi chocolate-brown above : fore wing with tiie costa pale 

 chocolate, outer marginal fine line, and a little apical suffusion 

 of the same colour very pale: hind wing with the outer 

 marginal line very faintly touched with the same tint of 

 colour ; otherwise the head, body, wings above and below, 

 and the legs without any markings. 



Expanse of wings, ^J , 1 inch. 



Bab. Dinawa, 4000', Brit. N. Guinea. 



PrSAVSTIlf^^, 



Aphytoceros subflavalis, nov. 



<J. Pale yellow ; head and body without markings ; abdo- 

 men with the anal tuft black ; a small brush of yellow hairs 

 in its middle. Wings above uniform pale yellow, markings 

 pale chocolate-brown : fore wing with two outwardly oblique 

 sinuous lines, two more antemedial, more close together ; a dot 

 in the cell, two short lines from the costa across the end of the 

 cell, curved towards each other, with a darker line between 



