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bristles; the penis is curved at a right angle, 
is asymmetrical, and has cornuti ( Fig. 9 c ) . 
Genitalia 9 : The female genitalia are 
distinguished from those of the other species 
by the shape of the ostium bursae and of the 
clapper; the clapper is thick, showing folds 
of stronger sclerotization, and is semicircular 
(Fig. 9 d). 
Loyalty Islands: Lifu (Hampson, 1913). 
New Hebrides (Paris Museum, coll, de 
Joannis) . 
The species extends from India to the New 
Hebrides. 
Genus Grammodes Guenee 
Grammodes Guenee, 1852, Spec. Gen. Lepid., 
Noct. 3: 275; Hampson, 1913, Cat. Lepid. 
Phal. B.M. 13: 13; Gaede, 1938, in Seitz 
11: 489 (type geometrica F. ). 
The proboscis is fully developed, the labial 
palpi are upturned; the second joint reaches 
the vertex of the head and is slightly scaly; 
the third joint is small and oblique; the frons 
is smooth with tufts of hairs above; the male 
antennae are ciliated. The thorax has no 
crest, the prothoracic tibiae are not spined, 
but the metathoracic tibiae have spines at 
their base. The abdomen is clothed with 
scales, and is without a crest. The anterior 
wings have a rounded apex and the medial 
cell of the posterior wings reaches a third of 
the length of the wings. 
Only one species is known from this area. 
Grammodes oculicola Walker 
Fig. IQa-d 
Grammodes oculicola Walker, List Spec. 
Lepid. Ins. B.M. 14: 1446, 1858. 
Grammodes oculicola Walker; Hampson, 
Cat. Lepid. Phal. B.M. 13: 15, 1913. 
Grammodes oculicola Walker; Collenette, 
Roy. Entom. Soc. London, Trans. 76: 477, 
1928. 
Grammodes oculicola Walker; Gaede, in 
Seitz 11: 489, pi. 54 e, 1938. 
Grammodes oculicola Walker; Viette, Pacific 
Science 3(4): 331, 1949. 
Wingspread 34-42 mm.; length of the 
anterior wings 16-19 mm. 
The head, labial palpi, thorax, and abdo- 
men are gray, the labial palpi and the ab- 
domen being lighter in color. 
The anterior wings have a brown back- 
ground color with two rather wide creamy- 
white oblique bands; the more basal band 
starts from the basal third of the costa and 
reaches the middle of the inferior edge of the 
wing; the second band starts from the distal 
third of the costa; it is parallel to the first 
band till Cum is reached, then it is suddenly 
narrowed, changes direction and reaches the 
inferior margin of the wing at a point where 
it almost touches the first band; in the infe- 
rior angle there is a black spot margined an- 
teriorly and posteriorly by a fine bluish white 
streak; along the external margin there is a 
more or less well-defined ochre-brown band; 
the cilia are gray in the proximal half and 
white in the distal half. 
The posterior wings are blackish gray with 
a rather wide medial white band perpendic- 
ular to the costa, that is turned at its apex 
and does not reach the anal angle; the cilia 
are white except on a level with the costa 
and Ms, where they are black; they become 
gray in the area of the anal angle. 
The underside of the wings is blackish 
gray, white basally, and with well-marked 
white tracings. 
Genitalia <5 : The tegumen is indistinct, 
dorsally there is an uncus (Fig. 1( )a) which 
has a tuft of long, vertically raised bristles 
laterally, and a similar tuft dorsally and ven- 
trally; the scaphium is well distinguished and 
sclerotized; a little above the articulation of 
the valvae, from the dorsal part of the ninth 
urite, two lateral extensions arise; the valvae 
(Fig. 10 b), although distinct, are simple; the 
costa and the sacculus are well developed, 
and have the shape of long, highly sclero- 
