'08 Col. C. Swlulioc on new 



^ 2 . Palpi, frons, face, pectus, tlioi'ax below, and legs 

 scarlet ; tarsi grey ; top of head, thorax, and both wings above 

 of a uniform dark brownish-slate colour, without any mark- 

 ings, except a faintly indicated medial thin band, slightly 

 darker than the colour of the wings, very slightly outwardly 

 curved : the outer portion of the fore wings has in some 

 lights a coppery sheen ; the abdomen has the first two seg- 

 ments brown, the rest scarlet ; on the underside it is suffused 

 with grey, and the wings are uniformly paler than they are 

 above and without markings. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Fergussou Island [Meek). 



Near C. pelUo, Felder (Reise Nov. pi. 117. fig. 19), but 

 that species is represented as having the whole of the liead 

 and the entire abdomen bright scarlet. 



There are two males and one female from Fergusson Island 

 and a pair from Kiriwini, unnamed, in the B. M., Qaadrifid 

 drawer no. 152. 



Egnasia franconia, nov. 



$ . Of a uniform dark olive-brown colour above, the wings 

 striated with darker brown : fore wings with three subapical 

 dots on the costa, indications of a postmedial whitish trans- 

 verse line edged with dark brown, only apparent on the 

 costa and towards the hinder margin ; hind wings with a 

 corresponding medial line which is complete : cilia of both 

 wings with a pale interline ; both wings with the outer 

 margins crenulate ; outer margin of fore wings excised 

 from apex to middle, of hind wings excised between veins 

 4 and 6 : the colour on the underside is much paler than on 

 the upperside, is more or less smeared with white, and the 

 brown striations give it a liandsonie marbled appearance. 



Expanse of wings ly,T inch. 



«outh Java, 1500 feet, 1896 {Fruh&torfer) . 



Sir George Hampson, in his diagnosis of this genus in his 

 excellent work on the Moths of India, vol. iii. p. 15, incor- 

 rectly says that the third joint of the palpi has a tuft of hair 

 on the inner side ; this certainly is not the case witli the 

 type of the genus, E. ephijrodalis, Walker, nor with recti- 

 linca, Swinhoe, accingalis, Walker, participalis, Walker ; the 

 only one of Hampson's species in my collection with this 

 tuft is castanea, Moore, and this is not a typical Egnasia. 

 The whole family of the Focillidai is much in want of a 

 careful revision. 



