C8 Colonel C. Swinhoe on Jiew 



soniewliat sinuous lines, subbasal .nnd antemedial, the outer 

 tliinl of ihe wing brown, paling towards the costa ; a large 

 yellow isili- white patch near the hinder angle, consisting of 

 three conjoined spots, decreasing in size from the hinder 

 margin upwards, tlie patcli with broad dark brown sides 

 containing small pale dots on the margins : hind wing darker 

 in colour, with a central yellowish si)aci\ 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



HaJi. Coomoo, {Sherlock River, Australia. 



Ceryuca Sumatra na, nov. 



(J. Head and body dark chocolate-brown; thorax witli a 

 yelliAv spot on each side ; abdomen with yellow bands, most 

 prominent on the first two segments: wings with the basal 

 lialt oclireous, thickly irrorated with browMi on the basal two- 

 thirds, the outer portion of the ochreous space with the 

 minute irrorations leaving an ochreous band across the middle 

 of the wings, not reaching the costa on the fore wing, its 

 outer edge outwardly angled above the middle and below the 

 middle on the hind wing ; the costal space and outer marginal 

 space dark chocolate-brow^n ; the outer margin of both wings 

 with black spots ; cilia dull ochreous, with brown spots and 

 brown lips. Underside: foie wing blackish brown, an 

 ochreous spot at the end of the cell, hinder margin with the 

 basal half ochreous ; hind wing blackish brown, an ochreous 

 middle band and a black spot in the cell. 



Ex))anse of wings ^^ inch. 



JIab. Padang, W. Sumatra. 



Family Stictopteridae. 



Slicto])tera talagi, nom. i.ov. 



Stictoptera tonglmna, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nivt. Hist. (8) xix. 

 p. 338 (1917j. 



JIab. Talagi [Everett). 



1 made a mistake in reading the label on this species. 

 Talagi is a small island off Isabel Island in the Solomon 

 group; Tonglu is in Sikkim. It is tlierefore necessary to 



ter the name of the sj)ecies. 



Family Sarrothripidae. 

 Characoma sumatrana, nov. 

 (5 . Resembles Characoma curiosa *, Swinhoe, from Burma. 

 * Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 2;J5. 



