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NEW BBEFANULIDAE, TEYRIBIDAE, UBANIIDAE, AND 

 GE03IETBIDAE FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION. 



By W. WAEEEN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 



1. Oreta subvinosa spec. nov. 



Forcwings : pale yellow, with a faint greenish tinge ; first line ill-defined, dnll 

 reddish brown, from costa at two-fifths, where alone it is jjlain, strongly curved 

 outwards and almost touching the two white discal dots, to inner margin near base ; 

 outer line deep chestnut-brown, from a dark costal spot close before apex, nearly 

 straight to middle of inner margin, joined on vein G by a short curved brown mark 

 from costa ; the space between the lines dull olive-brown ; the yellow basal and 

 marginal areas freckled with brownish, the latter with a dnll reddish cloud along 

 margin, and becoming deeper reddish towards apex ; fringe red-brown, with the 

 tips lustrous, and a silvery white spot at the apex of wing. 



Hindwings : with antemedian red-brown fascia, its inner edge marked by a 

 thick chestnut shade, continuing the outer line of forewings, its outer irregularly 

 crenulate, the whole not reaching above vein 7 ; an oval grey cloud at apex ; two 

 or three rows of dark grey spots between the veins of outer area ; fringe yellow, 

 becoming brownish red at apex. 



Underside of forewings deep vinous brown, narrowly yellowish along inner 

 margin ; costa yellow along basal half and between the two dark apical marks, red 

 between ; outer line from apex to vein 3 followed by a lustrous pearly shade ; 

 hindwings bright yellow, the basal half except along inner margin vinous red, tliis 

 tint extending narrowly along costa and round apex to middle of hiudmargin ; outer 

 half with three rows of interneural red-brown spots, not extending below vein 2 ; 

 discal dots as in forewings. Face, palj)i, ])ectus, and fringes of legs bright red ; 

 abdomen beneath and anal segments tinged with red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 above yellowish ; two middle segments of abdomen olive-brown ; shoulders whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



One (J from Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea, August 1S96 (H. Kiihn). 



Antennae with a double row of long, close, clavate teeth. 



Spectroreta gen. nov. 



Differs from Ncoreta Warr. in the hindmargiu of hindwings not being excised 

 below the middle, but with a short tooth at middle ; the antennae not plumosely 

 bipectinate, but with long straight stiff pectinations, in series of uneven length ; 

 the forewings with a large hyaline space below middle of costa, the hindwings with 

 hyaline spots beyond middle of disc. 



Ntiuralioii: forewings, cell more tiuui half the Icngdi of wing; discocellular 

 scarcely inangulated, the lower twu-tliirds obli(piely curved, witii a short vertical 

 uj)per and lower portion ; first median nervule at one-half, second at nine-tenths ; 

 ihe radials from the inner ends of the vertical portions of discocellular ; 7, 8, 9, 10 



