68 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new 



somewhat sinuous lines, subbasal and antemedial, the outer 

 third of the wing brown, paling towards the costa ; a large 

 yellowish-white patch near the hinder angle, consisting of 

 three conjoined spots, decreasing in size from the hinder 

 margin upwards, the patch with broad dark brown sides 

 containing small pale dots on the margins : hind wing darker 

 in colour, with a central yellowish space. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Hah. Coomoo, Sherlock River, Australia. 



Cerynca sumatrana, nov. 



S . Head and body dark chocolate-brown ; thorax with a 

 yellow spot on each side ; abdomen with yellow bands, most 

 prominent on the first two segments: wings with the basal 

 half ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown on the basal two- 

 thirds, the outer portion of the ochreous space with the 

 minute irrorations leaving an ochreous band across the middle 

 of the wings, not reaching the costa on the fore wing, its 

 outer edge outwardly angled above the middle and below the 

 middle on the hind wing ; the costal space and outer marginal 

 space dark chocolate-brown ; the outer margin of both wings 

 with black spots ; cilia dull ochreous, with brown spots and 

 brown tips. Underside: fore wing blackish brown, an 

 ochreous spot at the end of the cell, hinder margin with the* 

 basal half ochreous; hind wing blackish brown, an ochreous 

 middle band and a black spot in the cell. 



Expanse of wings ^ inch. 



JIab. Padang, W. Sumatra. 



Family Stictopterida?. 



Stictoptera talagi, com. nov. 



Stictoptera tongluana, Swinhoe, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xix. 

 p. 338 (1917). 



JIab. Talagi {Everett). 



1 made a mistake in reading the label on this species. 

 Talagi is a small island off Isabel Island in the Solomon 

 group; Tonglu is in Sikkim. It is therefore necessary to 



ter the name of the species. 



Family Sarrothripidae. 

 Characoma sumatrana f nov. 

 J . Resembles Characoma curiosa *, Swinhoe, from Burma. 

 * Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 235. 



