SELEX0PEBA8. — DAHLIA, 
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Genus SELENOPERAS, nov. 
Type, S. caustiploga, Hmpsn. (Capnodes), Moths Inch iv. 
p. 537 (1896). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, rather slender and slightly fringed 
with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd moderate and 
roughly scaled ; frons smooth, with ridge of scales above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male with bristles and cilia ; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; 
fore tibiae of male with tuft of large scales in front, the micl 
and hind tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 
crenulate ; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen excised 
towards tornus ; the cell about one-third length of wing ; 
veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Genus DAHLIA. 
Dahlia, Pag. Abh. Senck. Ges. Zoologica, xii. p. 120 
(1900) 
Type. 
hesperioicles, Pag. 
Dahlia flava, n. sp. 
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the two former 
with a few brown scales ; antennae brown mixed with white ; 
palpi irrorated with brown ; pectus, legs and ventral surface 
of abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing 
yellow irrorated with a few brown scales, the costa thickly 
irrorated with brown ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, 
Avavecl ; a white point defined by black in middle of cell and 
a similar point at lower angle of cell with a black striga above 
it ; postmedial line brown, waved , excurved from disci, I 
fold to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal line formed by 
small dentate brown marks to vein 3, then an incurved line ; 
a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia yellowish white 
mixed with brown. Hind wing yellow irrorated with brown ; 
a slight brown postmedial line excurved beyond lower angle 
of cell and above inner margin ; two diffused brown sub- 
terminal lines ; a terminal series of small black spots. Under- 
side ochreous white thickly irrorated with brown ; both wmgs 
with slight brown discoidal spots, rather diffused sinuous 
postmedial line and subterminal shade. 
Hcib. Bismarck Arch., Admiralty Is. (Meek), 1 $ type. 
Exp. 22 millim. 
