170 ZOOLOGISCHE MEDEDEELINGEN — DEEL VI. 



with an oblique white bar on posterior costal spot. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia dark grey. 



Java, Tegal Simpar, 3000 feet, in November (Lucassen); two 

 specimens. 

 Ascalenia subusta n. sp. 



9 8 mm. Head ochreous- whitish, crown sprinkled with dark fuscous. 

 Palpi ochreous-whitish, irregularly sprinkled with fuscous, terminal joint 

 with subapical ring of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax fuscous, posterior 

 extremity ochreous-whitish. Forewings narrow, widest towards base, thence 

 narrowed to pointed apex; ochreous-whitish, slightly sprinkled with light 

 brownish; base narrowly dark fuscous; median third of costa somewhat 

 infuscated and sprinkled with dark fuscous; stigmata minute, black, plical 

 obliquely before first discal; a small cloudy fuscous spot on costa at 3 / 4 , 

 and some slight infuscation near it: cilia pale greyish, round apex with 

 some black speckling. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 



Java, Buitenzorg; one specimen. 

 Pyretaulax n. g. 



Head smooth, face retreating; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. 

 Antennae 4 /,<5 (?), basal joint elongate, thickened at apex, with pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, recurved, diverging, thickened with scales and some- 

 what roughened anteriorly throughout, terminal joint almost as long as 

 second, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings lb furcate, 

 2 from 3 / 4 , 3 from angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 out of 6, 7 to costa, 11 from 

 rather beyond middle. Hindwings l / 2 , narrow-lanceolate, cilia 3 ; neuration 

 not clearly ascertained, but apparently 3 and 4 absent, transverse vein 

 absent, 5 and 6 stalked, 6 to just beneath apex, 7 remote. 



Allied to Batrachedra, from which it differs by possession of vein 8. 



Pyretaulax miltogramma n. sp. 



9 12 mm. Head pale yellowish, crown partially suffused with red. 

 Palpi ochreous-whitish, towards apex faintly crimson-tinged. Thorax fus- 

 cous transversely barred with crimson. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, 

 acute; pale ochreous-yellowish ; a minute dark fuscous dot almost at base 

 in middle ; markings vermilion-red ; a small spot on base of dorsum ; a 

 streak along fold throughout; a slender irregular median streak from 

 near base to termen, posterior portion enlarged into anelongate spot ; two 

 small spots towards costa posteriorly, and a larger triangular apical spot; 

 dorsal edge red towards middle: cilia whitish-yellowish, with a grey spot 

 above apex. Hindwings and cilia whitish-yellowish. 



Java, Tegal (Lucassen); one specimen. The example is in damaged 

 condition, but is a curious insect and demands description. 





