1899.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAFSTIN.B. 



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(15)tSAMEODES DISTICTALIS, n. Sp. 



Differs from Jiilarodes iu the antemedial line of fore wing being 

 almost obsolete ; no hyaline spot below the cell and the retracted 

 portion of the postmedial line straight ; the postmedial line bent 

 inwards below costa, with a hyaline spot on its inner side instead 

 of the hyaline band on its outer side. Hind wing with large 

 hyaline spot in end of cell. 



Hub. Pulo Laut (Doher/y). Exp. 18 mm. Type in B.M. 



(16)tSAMEODES FLATiDissiMALis Grotc, Can. Ent. ix. p. 105. 



U.S.A. 

 (17) Sameodes caubogialis Guen. Delt. & Pvr. p. 331. 



■fBotijs lucUla Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 494. " W, Indies ; Brazil. 



(18)tSAME0DES citeis'alis, n. sp. 



6 • Pale lemon-yellow. Fore wing with oblique antemedial 

 fuscous Hne ; a large fuscous patch filling the end of cell, the area 

 just beyond it, and extending up to costa, with a hyaline spot in 

 end of cell and an oblique series of five spots beyond the cell 

 between the veins ; a submarginal fuscous line obtusely angled at 

 vein 5. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Ilab. Dominica {W, H. Elliot). Exp. 18 mm. 



(19)*Sameodes poltthliptalis, u. sp. 



S . Fuscous suffused with grey ; palpi white at base ; abdomen 

 ringed with white and with the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 with dark-edged hyaline spot in and below middle of cell, with 

 traces of a line from it to inner margin ; a rounded spot in end of 

 cell ; a diamond-shaped spot below vein 2 near its origin, and a 

 dentate postmedial band formed of four conjoined spots between 

 costa and vein 5. Hind wing semihyaline yellow with the base 

 fuscous ; triangular fuscous marks from costa at and beyond end 

 of cell ; the terminal area fuscous suffused with grey, with irregular 

 dark line on its inner edge and dark terminal line ; cilia white. 



Hob. Humboldt Bay, N. Guinea {DoheHy). Exp. 26 mm. 

 Type in Coll. Eothschild. 



Genus 91. MEEOCTEifA. 

 Meroctena Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 392. 

 Palpi porrect, straight, the 2nd joint fringed above and below 



Fig. 91. 



Meroctena tullalis, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



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