68 Christmas Is/and. 



of fore wing has its excurved portions rounded or straight, not 

 angled; the usual colour variations occur. 

 Distrib. — !New Hebrides, Fiji, Tahiti. 



25. Eutelia delatrix, Guen. : Noct., ii, p. 304. 



Dtsinb. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, Java, Queensland. 



26. Stictoptera describens, ^Ik., xiii, 1139, 



1 9 ; December. 



Distrib. — South India, Ceylon, Singapore. 



27. Hydrillodes vexillifera, sp.n. (PI. IX, Fig. 6.) 



(J. Palpi recurved over head, the first joint angled with scales 

 in front; the second largely tufted with hair at the extremity, the 

 third bent downwards and tufted with hair ; fore tibise and femora 

 with large tufts of hair ; fore wing with slight costal fold on 

 under-side fringed with large scales ; hind wing with the basal area 

 on under-side clothed with fulvous androconia. 



Fuscous brown ; the tufts on fore legs and at extremity of 

 abdomen tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with faint traces of an 

 antemedial line ; a black point at middle of cell ; the postmedial 

 line arising from a white point on costa, then indistinct, waved, 

 and incurved from vein 3 to submedian fold ; the subterminal line 

 indistinct, curved and angled inwards in submedian fold ; hind 

 wing with discoidal lunule. Under-side of hind wing paler, with 

 distinct discoidal spot and waved postmedial line ; the fulvous 

 scales in male extending on inner area to near tornus. 



1 C?> 4 9 ; December-March. I^xp. 26 mm.; also fi'om the 

 Louisiades, St. Aignan (Meek). 



28. Maliattha signifera, Wlk., xii, 793. 



12 J. 18 9 ; August-March. 



Distrib. — .Japan, China, India, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, 

 Penang, Queensland. 



29. Erastria griseomixta, sp.n. (PI. IX, Fig. 5.) 



9. Head and thorax grey, slightly mixed with brown scales; 

 abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated with brown 

 scales ; an indistinct sub-basal line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, where it is angled, obsolete below submedian fold ; the 

 antemedial line indistinct, slightly waved, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then nearly erect ; a slight rufous point at lower 

 angle of cell ; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below 



