from the Solomon Islands. 121 



on the discocellulars ; an oblique, arched, lunulated, dark 

 brown line across disk from outer fourth of costal to outer 

 third of inner margin : secondaries with a black spot at end 

 of cell, a dark greyish brown stripe crossing the wing ob- 

 liquely just before the middle, and beyond it on the median 

 and radial interspaces a slender trisinuate line of the same 

 colour ; all the wings with a few apical, dark brown, mar- 

 ginal spots ; fringes pale grey, with a slender ochraceous 

 basal line : head browner and abdomen whiter than the wings. 

 Under surface of wings paler and with less defined stripes 

 than above : body below sericeous ; tarsi with a pale cupreous 

 gloss ; distal extremity of posterior tibiae (where it projects 

 from the hairy tufts) bright silvery. Expanse of wings 41 

 millim. 



Alu. 



Although this species bears no close external resemblance 

 to N. chironalis, it possesses all the structural characters of 

 Nosophora. Botys origoalisj from the Celebes, is also a 

 Nosophora *. 



12. Omiodes pluto^ sp. n. 



Dark smoky grey : primaries with paler grey costal mar- 

 gin ; base ochreous, interrupted by a large black costal spot 

 and a small silver-grey spot ; other markings black_, arranged 

 exactly as in Conogethes puncttferalis, but those on the 

 secondaries blurred : head pale buff, dusky behind, palpi with 

 a black lateral band ; antennge pale golden buff, deep golden 

 below ; collar sordid ochraceous, with lateral and central 

 black spots ; tegulee smoky brown, with a black spot at base ; 

 remainder of body leaden greyish, slightly brown at the sides ; 

 basal half of abdomen with dorsal and lateral black spots. 

 Wings below sericeous; the fringes silvery; the black markings 

 blurred, wanting towards the base ; interno-median area of 

 primaries silvery whitish : pectus silvery; legs and abdomen 

 sericeous, silvery whitish, but the anterior pair of legs with 

 shining, smoky, blackish coxse, femora, and tibiee, with pale 

 scaling at the distal extremity of the coxge ; anal extremity 

 of abdomen smoky blackish. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 



Alu. 



* Lederer refers it to Ccenostola, but clearly without having recog- 

 nized it. 



