Pyralidaj of the Subfamily Siginse. 313 



curved forwards to near tips of palpi, the extremity of 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair above hiding the 3rd joint, in female the palpi 

 moderately scaled and the 3rd joint minute; maxillary palpi 

 triangularly dilated with scales;' frons smooth and rounded; 

 antenna? of male ciliated. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen excised below apex and excurved at middle ; vein 3 from 

 below angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper 

 angle ; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the termen excurved at middle ; veins 3 and 5 from close to 

 angle of cell; 6, 7 very shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with 7. 



Endotricliodes margaritifera, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; antenna? brownish ; 

 palpi white at base below ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibia? at 

 extremities and the tarsi banded with black; ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous 

 with slight dark irroration ; an oblique subbasal whitish striga 

 from costa ; a strongly excurved pearly white medial line, obolescent 

 below submedian fold and defined on outer side by blackish towards 

 costa; a small rather diffused black discoidal spot; postmedial line 

 double, dark brown, filled in with pearly white and with some 

 pearly white before it on costal area, slightly excurved below costa 

 and at middle, then oblique and sinuous ; a terminal series of 

 small silvery white spots defined on outer side by black stria?. 

 Hind wing bright rufous with slight dark irroration ; some whitish 

 at base and on basal half of inner margin ; ante- and postmedial 

 lines deep rufous from costa to above inner margin, the former 

 defined on inner side slightly by yellowish and sinuous, the latter 

 slightly defined on outer side by yellowish, excurved to beyond 

 lower angle of cell to below which it is bent inwards, then sinuous 

 and joining the antemedial line at vein 1, a small black discoidal 

 spot between them with a pearly white band from it to vein 1 ; a 

 terminal series of silvery white stria? defined on outer side by black 

 striae. Underside ochreous tinged with rufous; fore wing with 

 slight obliquely curved sinuous brown antemedial line, small black 

 discoidal spot and double slightly waved postmedial line filled in 

 with whitish at costa ; hind wing with slight brown antemedial 

 line sinuous to median nervure, then oblique, two black discoidal 

 points and brown waved postmedial line excurved from below costa 

 to vein 3 then incurved, some white between the lines below the 

 cell. 



Hab. Be. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 J, 1 2 tvoe 

 Exp., 6 20, 2 28 mm. ' ' ¥ ^ P 



Genus Exodesis, nov. 



Type, E. vaterfieldi. 



Proboscis absent; palpi downcurved, extending about two and a 

 half times length of head, thickly scaled, the 2nd joint broadly 



