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Fore wing long and narrow, more recalling Aphanto- 

 cephala, or even Ducltopsis, tlian Caprima ; SC^ wantinj^, 

 W just stalked, DC acutely inanglcd; black, irrorated witli 

 blue ; a small ochre-yellow patch at base, produced on the 

 space between costal edge and vein C to a length of nearly 

 2 mra. ; a narrow ochre-yellow streak from SC at 4 or 5 mm. 

 from base, running very obliquely in direction of termen 

 but not quite reaching S\P. 



Jlitid wing black with blue irroratiou ; abdominal margin 

 ochre-yellow for a width of over 1 mm. At termen appear- 

 ing to widen on account of some yellow irroration. 



Underside similar, but in part with stronger blue and 

 ])urple reflections, tlie yellow markings somewhat extended, 

 the fore wing with some additional yellow scales in and 

 distally to the posterior angle of the cell and at distal end of 

 abdominal margin. 



Aru Is., March-May 1916 {W. J. C. Frost). 



Family Geometridae. 



Subfam. Sterbhinju. 



2. Sem(Bopus snbtranslucens. 



?'.. — 33 mm. 



Head and body nearly concolorous with wings ; antennal 

 joints not projecting ; ciliation fully as long as diameter 

 of shaft ; pectus not densely hairy. 



Fore wing with apex acute, termen rather irregularly 

 subcrenulate ; proximal areole ample, distal minute, SC^ 

 arising well do^^n on the stalk of SC'~' ; subdiaphanous 

 whitish, with slight pink reflections and with some some- 

 what olivaceous * irroration ; cos^tal margin and base 

 olivaceous*; markings olivaceous*, antemedian line before 

 one-third, excurved in cell and in submedian area; cell- 

 mark oceiloid ; median line dentate, from five-eighths costa, 

 oblique outwards to SC, somewhat incurved between the 

 radials and strongly behind middle, reaching hind margin 

 about middle ; a duplicating line just beyond the median 

 commences about R\ feeble at first but becoming distinct 

 and thickening, almost connected with median by olivaceous 

 shading in posterior part ; postmediau line dentate, placed 

 midway between this and termen or slightly nearer the 



• " Buff with a tinge of olive " would perhaps better describe this 

 shade. 



