Lepidoptera. 17 



Hah. — Christmas Island ; Jan.-Mar., 1898 ; six specimens. 

 (C. W. Andrews.) 



Smaller than any previously described species of this genus, 

 greatly resembling B. pavonacella, Clem., and the larger quadri- 

 florella, Z., from jS'orth and South America respectively. 



4. Simaethis ornaticornis, Wlsm., sp.n. 



Antennae with the basal joint enlarged, obtuse ; brownish 

 ochreous, the stem white, conspicuously annulated with black. 

 Palpi whitish, barred with brownish ochreous on the outer sides. 

 Head brownish ochreous, mixed with pale cinereous. Thorax 

 brownish ochreous, becoming dark brownish grey posteriorly. 

 Fore wings with the costa much arched, widening outward from 

 the base, apex rounded, termen obliquely convex ; olivaceous 

 brownish, with two narrow transverse bands of pale cinereous 

 speckling between base and middle, the outer one terminating in 

 a whitish costal spot, beyond which is another reduplicated whitish 

 costal spot, the space between them dark brownish fuscous, 

 another small white spot lies in the costal cilia immediately above 

 the apex ; some blackish patches around the outer end of the cell 

 are succeeded by some paler transverse strigulae and accompanied 

 by brownish cinereous scaling, the ante-apical and ante-terminal 

 portion of the wing being irregularly clouded with fuscous, the 

 termen olivaceous brown, with a dark brown line along the base 

 of the bronzy greyish cilia. Exp. al. 1 1 mm. Hind wings dark 

 bronzy brownish, with some faint pale curved streaks running 

 through them before the margin ; under-side with two speckled 

 pale cinereous bands. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs fuscous, 

 tarsi with three white bands. 



Co-types (2), Mus. Br. 



Hah. — Christmas Island ; Peb.-Mar., 1898 ; ten specimens. 

 (C. W. Andrews.) 



This species resembles in shape, colouring, and markings the 

 typical forms of Simaethis, and is apparently nearer to the European 

 oxi/acanthella, L., than to any other well-known species. 



5. Phycodes adjectella, Wkr. 



NigUgia adjectella, Wlk. : Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M., XXVIII, 512 (1863). i 

 Fhycodes adjectella, Wlsm. : Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1891, SO.^ 



Hah. — Sierra Leone. ^ East Africa : Tangani, Kolumbi Creek, 

 Aug.'^ 



Christmas Island; Dec, 1897 — Jan., 1898; two specimens. 

 (C. W. Andi-ews.) 



Apparently a small form (^exp. al. 11mm.) of Walker's African 

 species. 



