lOJ; Sir G. F. Hampson on neio 



Oreta glaucinoe, sp. ii. 



? . Head bright rufous ; thorax and abdomen yellowish 

 ■o-hite; pectus in front, fore legs, and the tarsi rufous witli 

 a crimsou tinge. Fore wing pale yellow suffused with 

 purplish grey, thickly irrorated with silvery scales and 

 with numerous faint dark striae ; a small black discoidal 

 spot; a slight oblique brownish line defined on outer side 

 by pale yellow from below apex to middle of inner margin ; 

 Cilia blackish at tips especially towards apex. Hind wing 

 pale yellow suffused, with purplish grey, thickly irrorated 

 with silvery scales and with numerous faint dai'k striae ; an 

 oblique brownish antemedial line ; cilia with some blackish 

 scales at tips. Underside thickly irrorated and striated 

 with fuscous and tinged with rufous, the inner area of hind 

 wing pale, an oblique dark line from apex of fore wing to 

 inner margin of hind wing before middle. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha [Spurrell), 1 ? type. E.rp. 

 36 mm. 



Oreta thermidora, sp. n, 



?-. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright chestnut-red ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen with a slight 

 crimson tinge, the hind tibiae with black streaks. Fore 

 wing bright chestnut-red with numerous faint dark striae ; 

 an indistinct diffused and slightly incurved blackish sub- 

 terminal line from below apex to inner margin near tornus ; 

 cilia blackish towards apex and above tornus. Hind wing 

 bright chestnut-red with some five ill-defined series of small 

 blackish spots except on basal area. Underside with a 

 slight crimson tinge ; both wings with numerous series of 

 small blackish spots and striae except on basal area. 



Hab. Japan, Fushiki {Leech), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 mm. 



Genus Metadrepaxa, nov. 

 Type, M. glanca. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi short, porrect ; antennae in both 

 sexes bipectinate with long branches ; tibiae fringed with 

 long hair, the hind tibiae with terminal spurs only, the 

 mid and hind tarsi fringed above with hair. Fore wing 

 with the costa highly arched, the apex produced and 

 falcate, the termen in male strongly excurved at middle 

 and excised above and below middle, in female typically 

 slightly excurved at middle ; vein 3 from well before angle 

 of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle; 



