Lepidojjtera. ' 71 



Bistrib. — West and South Africa, Madagascar, Oriental region to 

 Australia and North Caledonia. 



41. Boarmia scotozonea, sp.n. (PL IX, Pigs. 4, 15.) 



$. Pale olive-brown, irrorated with black scales; palpi at sides 

 and frons black ; forelegs streaked with black ; abdomen dorsally 

 suffused with black fi-om second to subterminal segment. Fore 

 ■wing with obscure, slightly curved, antemedial series of points and 

 indistinct oblique medial line ; a postmedial series of points, with 

 dark spots on it between veins 6 and 4, with a diffused blackish 

 patch beyond it extending nearly to termen ; a pale subterminal 

 line dentate towards costa ; some black points on termen. Hind 

 wing with obscure antemedial line ; a more prominent, minutely 

 dentate, medial line followed by a rust-red line ; an ill-defined, 

 pale, subterminal line, somewhat dentate towards costa, and with 

 rust-red line on its inner side, the area beyond it pale from vein 4 

 to tornus ; two terminal black lunules towards apex and one 

 towards tornus. L'nder-side, with the terminal area of both wings, 

 black, with subterminal series of pale spots becoming a line towards 

 inner margin of hind wing. Antennae ciliated ; fore wing Avith 

 small fovea. 



9. The area beyond the postmedial line of fore wing and medial 

 line of hind wing suffused with black, except the costal area of 

 fore wing. 



24 J, 3 9; September-March. The only close ally of this 

 species is B. cessaria, Wlk,, from India and Ceylon. 



LARENTIAN^. 



42. Sauris hirudinata, Guen. : Phal., ii, p. 362. 



1 (^, 3 9 ! December-March. 



Distrtb. — 8onth. Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, Sumatra, Java, 

 Queensland, Fiji. 



GEOMETEIN^. 



43. Thalassodes veraria, Guen. : Phal., i, p. 360. 



One 9 iJi ^3,d condition, which is bright yellow-green instead of 

 blue-green, and may belong to a closely allied species. 

 Distrib. — India, Ceylon, Java. 



ACIDALIAN^. 

 44. Craspedia optivata, Wlk., xxiii, 780. 



5 (J , 1 6 9 ; December-March. The females agree very well with 

 the Australian form, but the males have the discoidal spots and 

 terminal points larger. 



