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outlined with white; postmedial outcurved, minutely wavy, vertical 

 below vein 2, followed on costa by a short curved line and a thick 

 streak below vein 7 to subterminal which is white, wavy, preceded 

 by some dark streaks, almost obsolete from vein 4 to below vein 3 ; 

 a broken terminal line; cilia with white points at veins. Hind wing 

 cinnamon drab; cilia slightly tipped with white. 



Female. — Fore wing more thinly irrorated, the outer half of cell 

 almost white; an antemedial lino below cell, close to medial indentate 

 at fold with a fine line to base; postmedial line below vein 4 crcnulate. 

 Hind wing light cinnamon drab, with darker suffusions before inner 

 margin. 



Expanse, male, 54 mm.; female, 06 mm. 



Hohiiat. — Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Type— Cat. No. 33423, U.S.N.M. 



STAUROPUS NITEItIA, new species 



Male. — Antennae fasciculate. Palpi fuscous, the cilia mottled 

 white and chestnut. Head, collar, and thorax white mottled with 

 black ; tips of patagia black, also of tufts on metathorax. Abdomen 

 above cinnamon drab, the last segment mottled white and chestnut, 

 the anal hairs white; underneath pale ecru drab. Fore wing white 

 thinly irrorated with fuscous, still less so on medial area; a black line 

 from base below cell and along vein 1, downturned on inner margin 

 near middle, and some yellowish scales below it at base; a double, 

 antemedial line, consisting of light grayish olive scales tipped with 

 black, inset below cell; a similar fine line across cell before the white 

 discocellular line, which is outwardly edged with black, then broadly 

 with scales similar to antemedial, suffusing with the inner postmedial 

 line; postmedial double, incurved below vein 3 at cell, the outer line 

 below vein 3 broadly edged distally by citrine drab striated with 

 black, this edged with black projecting between veins 2 and 3; an 

 outer oblique citrine drab and black fascia from costa to vein 4; 

 a dou])le marginal series of black lines on interspaces, mostly edged 

 with maize yellow on basal side. Hind wing drab, the basal half 

 cinnamon brown, fuscous on discocellular. 



Expanse 48 mm. 



Habitat. — Assam, India. 



r?/pe.— Cat. No. 33424, U.S.N.M. 



STAUROPUS PALLADINA. new species 



Male. — Antennae pectinated to near tips. Palpi chestnut, streaked 

 above with fuscous, fringed with white. Frons white medially, 

 chestnut laterally. Vertex and collar mostly white, the latter with 

 a transverse chestnut band. Thorax mottled wood brown and green- 

 ish white. Abdomen above cinnamon drab, underneath whitish. 

 Fore wing: Basal third, costa, inner margin, termen from vein 6 to 



