390 ARCTIADJE. 



2 h. Pisara thyrophora, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig-. 9.) 



S ■ Head white ; thorax white mixed with brown ; forelegs and 

 the tarsi suffused with blackish; abdomen white mixed with brown 

 and with some blackish suffusion on dorsum towards base. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with brown ; subbasal, antemedial, and 

 medial blackish spots on costa ; a black bar in cell before the fovea 

 and blackish spot above it ; postmedial black points on veins 6 to 3 

 and a striga at inner margin ; a maculate fuscous subterminal line, 

 excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 blackish spots. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brown 

 especially on the veins and costa towards apex. 



Hah. Formosa, Kanshirei {Wile man), 1 6 type. Exp. 18 

 millini. 



2 c. Pisara fuscibasis. 



Celama fuscibasis, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 414, pi. v. f. 42 (1904). 



S ■ White ; frons, teguhe, and base of patagia irrorated witli 

 fuscous ; antennae brown, the tuft on basal joint black ; legs irrorated 

 with brown ; abdomen with the basal crest black. Fore wing 

 suffused with silver to the medial line which is almost straight ; a 

 curved antemedial line ; the fan of scales in cell dark ; a postmedial 

 punctiform line arising from a small spot on costa, excurved at 

 middle, then incurved ; subterminal line angled outwards at middle 

 and with some silvery fuscous suffusion before it and on termen. 

 Hind wing with the terminal area tinged with silvery fuscous. 



Sab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 16 ; Br. N. Guinea, 

 Dinawa. 4000' (Pratt), type fjin Coll. Bethune-Baker ; Owgarra 

 (Meek), 1 J • Exp. 22 millini. 



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Poliothripa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 311 (1902). 



3 a. Celama thyridota. 



Celama thyridota, Turner, ined. 



Fore wing of male with semihyaline foveas in upper end of cell 

 and beyond the cell above and below base of vein 6 on underside. 



Head and thorax white slightly irrorated with brown ; palpi at 

 sides and antennae tinged with brown ; tibise and tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen white banded with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged 

 with oehreous. Fore wing white tinged with brown and sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; a subbasal brown spot on costa ; antemedial 

 and medial spots on costa partially edged with black scales, the 

 former oblique and elongate on outer edge of the curved diffused 

 antemedial black line which does not reach inner margin, the latter 

 with traces of a waved line from it to inner margin ; the postmedial 



