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thorax greyish, especially behind ; abdomen slightly brownish 

 behind. Under surface clear ochreous ; wings sparsely irro- 

 rated with minute slaty purple striations ; primaries with an 

 abbreviated purple transverse streak beyond the middle of 

 internal area, inner border white ; all the wings with a sub- 

 marginal purple line ; hind tibise with reddish fringes. Ex- 

 panse of wings 35 millim. 



Alu. 



Nearest to 0. aventiaria. 



10. Zandojpteryx oetherialis^ sp. n. 



Nearest to Z. fragilis : pearly white, wings crossed towards 

 outer margin by an irregular series of brown dots and dashes, 

 as in Z. guttilinea of Java ; a squamose lunulated brown line 

 and a marginal series of black dots : primaries with the costal 

 border more or less striated with brown ; a black spot at the 

 end of the cell : secondaries with a brown spot at the end of 

 the cell. Wings below with only the discocellular markings. 

 Expanse of wings 19-20 millim. 



Alu, Shortland Island. 



Some examples are more strongly marked than others. 



MicroniidaB. 

 11. Strophidia costalis, sp. n. 



Allied to 8. hifasciata^ but differing in the white costal 

 border of the primaries and the broad white external border 

 of the secondaries ; above snow-white : primaries with a 

 black-brown subcostal band continued as a black-brown border 

 round the outer margin ; two well-separated pale brown 

 bands across the middle of the wing from the subcostal band 

 to the inner margin : secondaries crossed from just before the 

 middle of costa to the anal angle by a pale brown band, 

 which unites upon the abdominal margin with an angular 

 darker brown discal band, parallel to outer margin ; three 

 increasing black oval spots from anal angle to base of caudal 

 projection, the fringe of this part of the wing also black. 

 Head, excepting the face and the lower surface of the palpi, 

 black ; remainder of body white ; anterior tibiee and tarsi 

 blackish above. Primaries below white ; a pale brown abbre- 

 viated stripe just beyond the cell and a spot in the cell • 

 apex and outer margin darker brown ; fringe blackish : se- 

 condaries nearly as above, but the outer brown band widened 

 and dentate-sinuate towards anal angle, so as to completely 

 obliterate the black spots. Expanse of wings 57-59 millim. 



Three examples. Shortland Island. 



