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(20 c.) Sterida lophocepsalis, sp. n. 



J . iMaxillary palpi small, triangularly dilated with scales ; 

 antcnnse with small triangular dilation of basal joint, with 

 very large tuft of hair between them from frous and vertex 

 of head ; mid tibire above and hind tibiae at base with tufts of 

 hair ; fore wing with vein 4 curved upwards near base, veins 

 5, 6 meeting at a triangular point, anastomosing for some 

 distance, then forking again. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen oehrcous, tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated slightly with brown ; tarsi banded with black. 

 Fore wing oehrcous, irrorated and in part suffused with dark 

 brown ; a brown spot on inner margin near base ; an ante- 

 medial series of four irregularly placed dark spots with 

 another beyond them in cell and three below the cell ; 

 a postmedial minutely dentate dark line with minutely dentate 

 oehrcous band on its outer side, strongly excurved from below 

 costa to vein 2, angled inwards in submedian fold, then 

 excurved again, some dark suffusion before it fi'om below end 

 of cell to inner margin ; a subtermiual diffused fuscous band ; 

 a termiual series of small black spots, larger towards apex ; 

 cilia with blackish line near base, obsolescent towards tornus. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, rather darker towards termen ; 

 cilia with fine pale line at base ; the underside pale, an 

 indistinct curved postmedial line, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hab. Borneo, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 (J type. £'<r/j. 30 mm. 



(20 d.) Stericta congenitalis, sp. n. 



Antennae of male without process from basal joint, a large 

 tuft of hair between them from f rons and vertex of head ; 

 maxillary palpi brush-like in a hollow of labial palpi; claspers 

 normal ; fore wing with vein 4 slightly curved upwards near 

 base, the discocellulars slightly produced below upper angle 

 of cell, and veins 5, 6 shortly stalked. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen oehrcous suffused in parts 

 with rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous slightly tinged with 

 rufous; rufous subbasal spots on costa and below cell; a 

 spot on inner margin before middle ; two diffused, slightly 

 waved, medial, rufous lines, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial 

 line minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 3, where it 

 is met by an oblique mark from lower angle of cell, then 

 incurved and stronger ; apical area suffused with rufous 

 and with a slightly incurved maculate line from it to tornus; 

 a terminal series of small rufous spots. Hind wing pale 



