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Lasionotella gen. nov. 



Tongue well developed ; frons smooth ; palpi upturned, the second segment 

 thickly scaled, roughened in front, the third short and smooth, porrect ; antennae of 

 <$ pubescent ; abdomen of <? long, hirsute, especially the dorsum, with tufts of 

 hair; the anal tufts large; fore wing with costa slightly arched at base, then 

 straight ; apex well-marked ; termen curved ; the inner margin convex ; hindwing 

 with termen excised from vein 6 to 3, and from vein 1 to anal angle, the inner 

 margin very short ; the cell area very broad, the space, below median contracted ; 

 a large foveal space on underside before termen between veins 5 and 3 ; the 

 termen projecting at the end of veins 6, 7 and 2, 3 : in forewing vein 6 from upper 

 angle of cell ; veins 7, 8 stalked, 9, 10 stalked, 9 anastomosing with 8 ; in 

 hindwing vein 5 curved shortly upwards, veins 4 and 3 long-stalked. 



Type : L. exesa spec. nov. 



36. Lasionotella exesa spec. nov. 



Forewing chalk-grey, slightly speckled with black ; base of costa and a 

 straight streak from one-third of costa to termen above anal angle green ; lines 

 dark, plain only at costa, more or less vertical and irregularly waved; the outer 

 bent outwards below subcostal vein, then curved between veins, and followed by 

 a dark diffuse cloud, paler in centre of wing; a slight flesh-coloured tinge in 

 median area below cell, especially at base of veins 3 and 4 ; cell-spot black ; 

 snbterminal line broad and pale, clearest at costa, where it is preceded and followed 

 by three greenish black wedge-shaped spots with the veins across them pale ; 

 terminal area greyer ; terminal spots brown ; fringe whitish, slightly darker 



chequered. Hindwing dull pink, paler and greyer basewards and along inner 



margin ; fringe pinkish white. 



Described from a single $ from N. Borneo. 



Hypaenistis gen. nov. 



Tongue present ; frons smooth, with a projecting tuft of hairs ; palpi upturned, 

 strong, the third segment short, porrect ; antennae of <$ with tuberculate fascicles 

 of cilia, the basal segment swollen ; thorax and abdomen smooth ; the abdomen 

 very long and slender, with the anal tufts largely developed ; forewing with 

 areole, veins 8 and 9 anastomosing ; hindwing with vein 5 absent, ? coincident 

 with 4. 



Type : H. purpurea spec. nov. 



37. Hypaenistis purpurea spec. nov. 



Forewing dull olive with very obscure markings ; the basal area and the 

 terminal area darker ; a bent broad median shade ; two dull green, paler-edged 

 spots on discocellnlar, conversely pear-shaped, the lower the larger ; subterminal 

 line lunulate-dentate, indistinct ; fringe dark olive with minute white dots at 



base. Hindwing deep vinous red, the costa pinker; termen and inner margin 



dark olive. 



Vertex of head and tegulae white. 



Choiseul Island, Solomons, January 1904 (A. S. Meek). 



