108 Mr. L. B. Piout on new 



probably also by parasitic habits. The wide range of the 

 family points to considerable antiquity, though it seems to 

 be absent from Australia. 



Ashmead (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 235, 1900) assigns 

 Olixon to the Bethylidae, subfamily Embolemina?; but gives 

 no reason for placing it in that position, from which the very 

 different antennae seem to exclude it at once. It is by no 

 means certain that Ashmead had seen specimens. 



VIII. — New Geometridpe in the Joicey Collection, 

 By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 



[Plate VII.] 



In working through the Geometridse in the collection of 

 Mr. J. J. Joicey I have already come across several novelties, 

 some of them of great interest, and as there is now sufficient 

 material for a Plate — which Mr. Joicey, with his customary 

 munificence, has provided in further elucidation of the species 

 and forms — we think it desirable to publish them without 

 further delay. As all the types are in his collectioUj it is 

 unnecessary to specify this in each individual case. 



Subfam. (Enocsbomin^. 



1. PlieJlinodes h'lap'icata, sp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 5.) 



S .—36 mm. 



Head and body white, slightly clouded with brown and 

 irrorated with blackish ; palpus blackish on upper and outer 

 side. 



Fore wing white, faintly clouded with brown and with 

 moderate blackish irroration, which in places (especially near 

 base) shows some tendency to form transverse strigulae j a 

 slightly curved blackish mark from hind margin nearly to 

 M' just proximal to middle of wing; an elongate blackish 

 cell-mark accompanied by indications of an irregular median 

 line, crossed behind M^ hy a thick longitudinal dash which 

 almost reaches termen and is followed posteriorly by some 

 smoky shading ; a large, irregularly bounded apical brown 

 spot, posteriorly extending across il', proximally in places 

 almost reaching the cell, at about 4 mm. from apex traversed 



