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also with minute black streaks at the veins ; a series of pale 

 fuscous spots iu the interspaces of terminal area. Hind 

 Aving semihyaline white; indistinct dift'used curved pale 

 fuscous postmedial and subterminal lines aud a series of 

 spots in the intei'spaces of terminal area. 



Hab. CoREA, Quelpart I. {S. Ichikawa), 1 ? tvpe, Eivp. 

 28 mm. 



Family Thyrididae. 



(3) Plagiosella pyromera, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax fiery red; antennae brownish; ab- 

 domen brown with some _fiery red at base of dorsum, the 

 ventral surface yellow tinged with red. Fore wing fiery red 

 mottled with yellow to near middle; a blackish subbasal line 

 from costa to vein 1, with two blackish points beyond it on 

 costa ; medial line blackish, defining the red area, slightly 

 curved and expanding into a small spot at costa ; the terminal 

 half red-brown, tinged with grey beyond the medial line and 

 with small fiery-red spot on costa; a fiery-red patch mottled 

 with small yellow spots from costa to vein 5, extending on 

 costa to apex and below vein 8 not reaching the termen, 

 crossed by a maculate blackish subterminal line; a fine 

 black terminal line ; cilia tinged with grey. Hind wing 

 with the ba?al area fiery red mottled with yellow and defined 

 by a curv^ed black line ; the rest of wing red-brown tinged 

 with fiery red and yellow towards termen and thickly striated 

 with brown, the inner margin pale yellow ; a fine black 

 terminal line; cilia tinged with grey. Underside reddish 

 orange; fore wing Avith some small black spots on costa and 

 with dark striae except on basal area and apical part of costal 

 area. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak [Pratt), 1 ? type. 

 Ea:p. 33 mm. 



(5) Plagiosella rufivestis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous, the vertex of 

 head yellow, the tegulre rather darker rufous ; pectus and 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish. Fore wing pale 

 rufous rather sparsely striated with red-brown, the costal 

 edo-e red-brown; a subterminal series of red-brown striae 

 slightly bent inwards at vein 6; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing pale rufous with numerous red-brown 

 strife forming ill-defined lines ; a terminal series of black 



