792 



AIUTIAD.E. 



*1097«. Philenora aroa. (Plate XLI. fig. 16.) 



ScJiistophleps aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 426 (1904). 



' S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with 

 ochreous and fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing creamy 

 white; the costal edge black towards base; the antemedial line 

 represented by a fuscous bar from costa to middle of ceil, a spot 

 nearer base just below median nervure and a spot above vein 1 ; a 

 small spot in middle of cell and a slight discuidal lunule ; post- 

 medial line represented by a fuscous patch from costa to vein 7, 

 then produced to slight streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then sinuous ; subterminal line represented by a diffused oblique 

 fuscous patch from apex, then narrower, interrupted at diseal fold 

 and incurved below vein 1 : a series of dark stria? on termen with 

 brown spots beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing creamy white; 

 the underside with slight brown postmedial and subterminal bars 

 from costa to vein 0. 



Rah. lb;. N. Guinea, Up. Aroa R. {Meek), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 22 millini. 



1100. Philenora unieolor, insert : — 



Megacraspedum quinque-punctatum, Mab. Ann. Sec. Ent. Fr. 1899, 

 p. 727. 



Pore wing with the spots larger, the one at end of cell with spot 

 on costa above it; an apical black patch extending to below vein 3 

 and enclosing an orange spot between veins 7 and 1. Hind wing 

 with prominent black discoidal spot, the cilia black. 



Philenora malagassa, Strand, Arch. Naturg\ Ixxxviii. (7) p. 193 (1912). 



Philenora nyassa, Strand, Arch. Natnrg - . Ixxxviii. (7) p. 193 (1912), 



for ab. 1. 



1103 a. Palpidia melanotricha. 



Palpidia melanotricha, Hmpsn. A. M.N. H. (7) xix. p. 234 (1907). 



Palpi hardly reaching above vertex of head, the 2nd joint 

 moderately scaled in front ; antenna? of male ciliated; fore wing 

 with vein 10 stalked with 7,8,9; hind wing with veins (3, 7 

 stalked. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with ochreous; 

 palpi with fuscous patch on 2nd joint at sides; tarsi slightly banded 

 with fuscous. Fore wing white finely striated with golden brown 

 and irrorated with long black hair-like scales on basal, medial, and 

 postmedial areas ; antemedial line dark brown, from eosta to sub- 

 median fold, straight ; postmedial line red-brown, oblique from costa 

 to diseal fold, then slightly incurved; an ill-defined waved white 

 subterminal line, excurved below costa and at middle, angled 



