from the Solomon Islands, 117 



the cell there are a few micaceous scales : body silvery 

 whitish, the legs browner. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 

 Alu. 



5. Pharamhara splendida^ sp. n. 



Bone-whitish, mottled with flesh-pink, but most strongly 

 on the secondaries, reticulated throughout with grey, sericeous : 

 primaries with the discoidal cell, but more especially the 

 anterior half of it, leaden grey, this colouring being confluent 

 with a large grey X-shaped marking immediately beyond the 

 cell ; a transverse, oblong, greyish spot beyond the middle of 

 interno-median area; fringe spotted with blackish: secon- 

 daries with a blackish leaden spot at end of cell, and a second 

 on abdominal margin ; fringe spotted with blackish : body 

 above pearly bone- whitish. Wings below with a brilliant 

 silvery gloss, the discoidal cell of primaries sprinkled with 

 opaline scales j all the markings darker, the mottling being 

 of a vinous brown varying to bronze; the reticulations 

 blackish : body below pale vinous brown ; legs banded with 

 white. Expanse of wings 22 millim. 



Alu. 



Asopiidse. 



6. ^diodes discrepanSj sp. n. 



Closely allied to JE. quaternalis, which it resembles in size 

 and coloration, but from which it differs in the absence of the 

 white spots on the fringe of the secondaries and in the narrower 

 black area between the outer white spots and the outer mar- 

 gin. Expanse of wings 19 millim. 



Three specimens, Malayta and Alu. 



I had identified this species with that of Lederer, believing 

 that the differences were due to careless drawing ; Mr. Mey- 

 rick, however, who has seen and sketched the true jE. qua- 

 ternalis^ assures me that the Solomon-Island form is distinct ; 

 both insects are black, with four opaline white spots on the 

 wings ; the tegulee white-edged, the face, outer half of an- 

 tennge, tarsi, sides of pectus, and two bands on the abdo- 

 men pure white, and two white spots on the fringe of pri- 

 maries. 



7. Desmia cegimiusalis^ var. conjuncta. 



This form differs from that of Sarawak (and apparently 

 the difference is constant) in the union of the two white spots 

 on the costal and outer margins of primaries into one oblique 



