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22. Rhinoprora ruptiscripta spec nov. 



Forewings : with the pale ground-colour varied with bright red scaling ; the 

 markings dark olive-green ; basal patch with its <iuter edge bent at middle and 

 crossed by a pale band ; central fascia broad, its inner edge waved and curved, its 

 outer also curved and slightl}' projecting above and below cell, traversed by several 

 fine waved jiale lines, and containing a large dark cell-spot ; interval before 

 submargiual line filled by an olive-green fascia ; marginal line dark green ; median 

 vein rufous from base ; central fascia interrupted by a rufous wedge-shaped blotch 

 between veins 2 and 4 ; outer fascia interrupted twice, along vein 6, and between 

 veins 3 and 4. 



Il/ndwinfls : greyish ochreous, with indications of the outlines of the markings 

 of forewings in darker grey. 



Underside dull suffused rufous, with the dark markings showing through. 

 Head, j)alpi, and thorax dark green and pale rnfous ochreous, the palpi very long; 

 abdomen wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 23 mm. 



One cJ from North Luzon, 5000— GdOO ft. (Wliitehead). 



23. Prorocorys admirabilis spec. nov. 



Foreu-ings : pale straw-colour, densely powdered with dark atoms and crossed 

 by six bluish silvery lines ; two close to base dentate and irregular ; third broader, 

 at one-third, outcurved in cell, then oblique and undulating basewards ; fourth 

 median, narrow, angled outwards on veins 7, 4, and 2, deeply concave between 

 4 and 2 ; fifth broad, dentate-lunnlate, angularly projecting in middle ; sixth 

 submargiual, lunulate-dentate ; the third and fifth bands limiting the central fascia 

 are edged finely with black scales ; the fifth and sixth bands are each preceded by 

 Innnlate bands of deep vinous red, in the latter case interrupted between veins 3 and 4 ; 

 the third baud is preceded by two red blotches, one above, the other below, the 

 median, and followed by a fine red band, which is wider on inner margin ; at base 

 of wing on inner margin a small red blotch; cell-spot black, linear, in a narrow 

 unspeckled space of straw-colour ; marginal line of short black dashes ; fringe 

 straw-colour, mottled with black at the vein-ends, except vein 3. 



Hin/hdngs : similar. 



Underside of all wings dull dark cinereous. Face, palpi, vertex, thorax, and 

 abdomen straw-colour, varied with dark atoms ; upper part of face, two bands on 

 the patagia, band on metathorax, and the edges of all the abdominal segments 

 red ; palpi with the apices of all the joints pale. 



Exjtanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One ? from Isabel Island, June— July IKOl (Meek). 



Allied to P. yemmata \Varr., also from the Solomons, but palpably distinct. 



SuiiFAMiT.v THICHOPTERYGINAE. 



24. Eemodes erebata spec. nov. 



Forewings : dark olive-green, crossed by five distinct darker green and blackish 

 bands ; first band basal, rather oblique outwards, consisting of two smaller bands 

 with a paler interval ; second band antemedian, with irregular waved edges and 



