306 PEECT SLADEN TEUST EXPEDITION. 



curved outwards between veins 5 and 2, tlience continued transversely towards tornus. 

 Termen lightly suffused with fuscous, especially towards costa. Cilia yellowish -white, 

 on termen suffused with fuscous towards base. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs very -pale ochreous-yellow. Hind tibia with outer 

 anterior spur half length of inner. 



Chagos. — Pive specimens : one (type) taken in He de la Passe (Salomon) on 22 June, 

 1905 ; two others from Salomon Atoll without exact data ; two from Egmont Atoll, 

 July 1905. 



Possibly a very pale local form of N. viilgalis, but it seems a distinct species. 



126. Nacoleia salomonalis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 10.) 



Exp. 15 mm. Pale yellowish, with a few dark fuscous scales intermixed ; frons 

 suffused with fuscous ; a dorsal blackish band across abdomen at ^ and indications of a 

 second band at about f . 



Fore wing with scattered blackish-fuscous suffusion at base ; a prominent black trans- 

 verse sinuous antemedial line between \ and \ ; an incomplete annulus in cell and a 

 discocellular annulus, the latter the more conspicuous and open tornad ; four black 

 costal spots between ^ and apex and a fifth spot at apex ; from the second of these spots 

 runs a black postmedial line, sinuous from costa to vein 2, then retracted inwards to 

 beneath discocellular annulus and thence sinuous to dorsum ; exterior fourth of wing 

 suffused with blackish-fuscous, less so towards apex and tornus : cilia fuscous, pale 

 yellow beneath apex and at tornus. 



Hind wing narrowly blackish at base ; a blackish discocellular spot from which runs a 

 sinuous blackish line enlarged on inner margin ; a postmedial sinuous blackish line, 

 beyond which the wing is suffused with blackish-fuscous, darker along anterior margin : 

 cilia greyish-yellow, dark fuscous at base. 



Intermediate between marioualis and tiasalis. 



Chagos. — Three specimens; He de la Passe, 22 June, 1905, when it was noted as 

 common. 



127. Nacoleia charesalis, Wlk. 



Botys charesalis, Walk., Cat. xviii. p. 709. 



Botys molusalis, Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 417 (early stages). 



Nacoleia charesalis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 319 ; Joannis, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1899, p. 198. 



Seychelles. — Mahe, two specimens ; one taken at Cascade Estate (800 feet) on 

 2 November, 1905, the other received from Mr. de Gaye without exact data. 



Distribution. — Seychelles (Mah6) ; India ; Ceylon ; Singapore ; Sumbawa ; Borneo ; 

 Philippines. 



128. Sylepta sabinusalis, WJk. 



Botys sabinusalis, Walk., Cat. xviii. p. 708. 



Notarcha duliia, Hampson, 111. Het. viii. p. 136, t. 155. f. 16. 



Sylepta sabinusalis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 333. 



