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the second, nearer first than third, slightly' waved, tlie third sinnons ; a small black 

 cell-spot between second and third; subniarginal line interrnpted, represented by 

 a brown curve from subcostal before apex to hindmargin at end of vein 6, and by a 

 jiarallel curve below, across veins 4 and 3, slightly edged with white in the ?, and 

 more strongly in the type <S, which also has a white apical streak ; in the other (J, 

 all. jirnfits'i, the apical blotch is enlarged and the lower curve followed by a large 

 square white blotch reaching hindmargin, with smaller white sjiots above and 

 below it ; marginal black spots before fringe marked with white scales, especially 

 in the aberration; in both t?<? the lower edge of the dark costal streak is dnsted 

 with white scales. 



Hindicimi : with two obscure curved lines, antemedian and median ; the cell- 

 spot white ; submarginal marked along the cnrves by spots of white scales, in the 

 aberration by a square white blotch as well, as in forewing. 



Underside pale flesh-colour, the margins with a narrow dark grey shade and 

 distinct black triangular marginal spots ; costa and apex of forewing black- 

 speckled ; the cell-spot black. 



Palpi ochreous ; face black-brown ; vertex greyer, as is the face in ? ; thorax 

 and abdomen like wings; the shoulders darker in front; anal segments of c? pale 

 ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



2 SS,\ ?. 



Very much like Casbia red aria Wlk. from Australia, but certainly distinct ; the 

 fovea in forewing is not immediately below the cell, as Mr. Meyrick describes it in 

 rectaria, but below the submedian vein, which is npbent round it, and I can see no 

 fovea in the hindwing ; the face is smoothly scaled ; vein 11 free, not anastomosing 

 with 12. 



120. Oenoptila flavirupta spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull brown-red, black-speckled ; costa narrowly pale in basal half; 

 an irregular deep yellow patch beyond middle stretching from above vein 4 to below 

 vein 2, containing brown-red striae and crossed by the lunnlations of the outer line ; 

 the lines marked by vein-dots; the first at one-fourth, the dots with pale ends 

 basewards ; the outer at two-thirds, the pale ends outwards ; across the yellow 

 patch these white dashes are prolonged ; cell-spot black ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : without first line ; the yellow patch small, at the base of veins 3 

 and 4, hardly reaching the spots of the outer line. 



Underside deep yellow with dnll brown-red margins, speckled and in forewing 

 suffused with the same colour ; cell-sj)ots black. 



Face and palpi deep brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; fillet and 

 basal third of antennae white ; underside of abdomen and legs yellow-ochreous ; 

 forelegs brown. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 ?. 



As in mdpina Warr. from the Solomon Islands, vein 11 anastomoses with 12 

 and 10 with 11 and 8, 9, and the species must be referred to the South American 

 genus Oenoptila. The apex of forewing is subfalcate. 



Taxilepis gen. nov. 

 Forewing : elongate ; costa curved throughout ; apex rectangular ; hindmargin 

 vertical to vein 5, protuberant from 5 to 3, then obliquely concave to vein 1. 



