392 NociuiDJi;. 



7500. Phyllodes imperialis. (Plate CCXI. fig. 5.) 

 PhijUodes imperialis, Uruce, A. M. N. H. (6) ii, p. 241 (1888). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the head, tegulse, and part of 

 tliorax with a plum-coloured gloss ; pectus with a plum-coloured 

 gloss ; the legs grejdsh brown, the femora at extremities and tibiae 

 at base with small orange spots; abdomen grej- -brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown and ochreous brown ; a small tuft of white scales at 

 base followed by an ochreous tuft ; the basal area with some long 

 orange-yellow hair-like scales ; a red-brown shade from basal part 

 of costa ; two red-brown antemedial lines from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 red-brown point in middle of cell ; reniform narrow, oblique, sinuous, 

 with four whitish marks in centre, which is defined by red-brown, 

 and a slight whitish annulas defined by red-brown ; medial line 

 rather diffused, red-brown, excurved to median nervure, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, double, red-brown, oblique to 

 vein 5, then inwardly oblique to vein 2 and sinuous to inner 

 margin, an oblique whitish shade beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; 

 an oblique dark brown streak from apex to vein 2, then sinuous to 

 inner margin ; a dark brown subterminal line, oblique to vein 6, 

 then bent inwards and waved and excurved to tornus. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a purplish gloss, the hair at base greyish ; a 

 crimson postmedial band from vein 5 to inner margin, its inner 

 edge slightly sinuous, its oilier excurved below vein 3 and at vein 1 ; 

 diffused bluish-white streaks in interspaces of terminal area. Under- 

 side of fore wing grey-brown striated with whitish, the discal area 

 black-brown, an oblique series of three white spots in and below 

 end of cell a,nd in submedian interspace ; hind wing grej'-browu 

 striated with white, the inner area black-brown to beyond the 

 crimson band which does not extend above vein 3, two dark medial 

 lines from costa to the dark area. 



JJab. New Hebrides, 1 ^; Solomons. Exp. 174 millim. 



*7501. Phyllodes meyricci. 



Phyllodes meyriolci, Oliff, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 114 (1889). 



5, Head purple-brown; antennae red-brown; thorax and ab- 

 domen reddish brown, the latter faintly tinged with purple. Pore 

 wing rich reddish brown glossed with purple, the terminal area 

 redder ; faint postmedial and apical whitish marks on costa ; an in- 

 distinct oblique brown line from apex to below end of cell ; reniform 

 grey-brown with its centre defined by red-brown, oblique, sinuous, 

 angled inwards on median nervure and with its lower extremity 

 produced to two points. Hind wing blue-black, brownish at base ; 

 a crimson postmedial band from vein 5 to inner margin, its edges 

 incurved at middle and its upper extremity rather attenuate ; a 



