1898.] or THE STJBFAMILT PTBATTSTIiSriE. 625 



base of costa ; a nearly straight antemedial dark line defined by 

 whitish on inner side; a white spot below middle of costa, and 

 another below origin of vein 2 ; two conjoined postmedial white 

 spots from below costa to vein 4 bounded by the sinuous post- 

 medial line, which at vein 4 is retracted to below end of cell. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin truncate from middle to anal 

 angle ; a nearly straight oblique medial dark line ; cilia of both 

 wings chequered white and fuscous. 



Hah. Amboina ; Humboldt Bay (DoTierty) and Fergusson Island, 

 N.Guinea; Queensland (-Mee^^). Exp. 22 mm. 



Auctorum. 



Botys defioralis Snell, Tijd. v. Ent. xxvi. p. 130, pi. 7. f. 10. 



Java; Celebes. 



Genus 23. Euekhtpaeodes. 



Eurrhyparodes Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 215. 



Molyhdaniha Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 309. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front, the 3rd 

 short and blunt ; maxillary palpi nearly as long as the labial and 

 dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded ; antennae annu- 

 lated. Eore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 straight 

 and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the outer margin 

 excised below apex ; the cell short ; veins 4, 5 approximated for 

 a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly 

 with 8. 



Eig. 23. 



Eurrhyfarodes bracteolalis, 2 • h (From Moths Ind. vol. iir.) 



Sect. I. Eore wing of male with the glandular swelling on costa 

 very large, oval and extending nearly to apex ; veins 8, 9 bent 

 downwards ; 10, 11 stalked ; hind wing with the outer margin 

 deeply excised below apex; fore tibiae thickly fringed with 

 hair. 



(l)*EirB,EHXPAEODES PLUMBEIMAEGINAIIS, n. Sp. 



cJ . Head fuscous and ochreous ; thorax and abdomen fuscous, 

 the latter obscurely ochreous towards base. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown with metallic reflections ; an obscui'e yellow subbasal line, 

 and another yellow line on inner side of the sinuous black ante- 

 medial line, which is angled at middle ; a yellow mark on disco- 

 cellulars with a black spot on it ; a large yellow patch below end 

 of cell bounded by the yellow postmedial line, which is angled 



