from the Solomon Inlands. 223 



black ; the margins of head, palpi, and collar narrowly 

 ochreous; the tegulse with narrovy whitish edges; the abdo- 

 men banded above with white and below with ochreous. 

 Expanse of wings 42 raillim. 

 Alu. 



18. Pitasila disruptay sp. n. 



Nearly allied to P. selecta, but differing in both sexes in 

 having the oblique white belt of primaries oblique, divided 

 into two parts by a stripe of the ground-colour on the first 

 median interspace. Expanse of wings, ($ 44 millim., ? 49 

 millim. 



Alu. 



Liparidse. 

 19. Artaxa inepta, sp. n. 



Allied to A. Moorei, part. {Euproctis 3foorei, second figure, 

 Snellen, Tijd. v. Ent. 1879, pi. viii.) *. Primaries, thorax, 

 and antenna bright ochreous ; secondaries and abdomen 

 ochreous whitish, quite white at costa; under surface wholly 

 creamy whitish ; primaries of male above with the basi- 

 internal area, an internally zigzag central belt, which stops 

 abruptly at upper radial vein and is bounded on both sides by 

 a pale line and two spots beyond it, one on the median inter- 

 spaces, the other close to inner margin, greyish brown ; 

 abdomen greyish behind, but with whitish anal tuft. Ex- 

 panse of wings, (S 27 millim., ? 33 millim. 



Alu. 



This species is also allied to A. anguligera from N.W. 

 India. 



20. Aha cometarisy sp. n. 



Nearest to A. terminata of India, though in some respects 

 more like the South-African A. discalis: primaries pale 

 smoky greyish brown, with indistinct black markings, as in 

 Lymantria : secondaries with the costal third excepting the 

 border black ; costal border and a broad longitudinal stripe 

 tapering from outer margin to base and bounding the black 

 area white ; remainder of the wing dark greyish brown : 

 body dark greyish brown. Primaries below whity brown, 



* Ilerr Snellen is quite wrong in his supposition that the species of 

 Artaxa are subject to extraordinary variation ; his three figures represent 

 certainly two, and possibly three, species. 



