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fication. Turner, misled by Meyrick's inexact estimate of the antenna of xerodes, which he (Turner) had 
not seen, assumed that he had a separate species; I can see no material distinction between the few specimens 
which I have been able to compare. Black Rock, near Melbourne. 
X. anaspila Meyr. (25 i). Palpus and pectinations moderate. Hindwing with a rather pronounced anaspila. 
emargination between the radials. Variable in size and in the degree of suffusion in the median band which 
is slight in the (small) originals and renders very clear the characteristic dark spot outside the postmedian. 
Meyrick says this “species has so much general resemblance to some Boarmiadae [Geometrinae], that it is 
difficult not to infer intentional mimicry”; to me it looks much more like a pectinate Horisnie. New South 
Wales (type S and $), Victoria and Tasmania. 
X. brujata Guen. (= repentinata Walk., breviaria Walk.) (25 k). Variable, especially in size, but easily brujata . 
known by its shape (hindwing somewhat crenulate, etc.), its glossy wings, the form of the markings and the 
structure; face smoother than in true Xanthorhoe, palpus shortish, S pectinations rather long. Perhaps the genus 
Visiana Swinh. (type sordidata) will have to be revived for this group. Superficially brujata somewhat recalls 
the much less glossy, non-pectinate stellata Guen. of the New World. Widely distributed in Australia and com¬ 
mon, the type from Tasmania. The $$, as also in the rest of the “Visiana”, are less contrastingly coloured 
and marked than the <3$. 
X. vinosa Warr. (25 k). Much like smaller sordidata or (in its less angled postmedian, at least on the vinosa . 
hindwing) heavily marked and more variegated brujata. Pectinations about as in brujata. Underside on an 
average more reddish. The type has the median band of the upperside rather redder and less dark than usual, 
but most specimens are nearer brujata in this respect. Forewing with outer prong of the median band sharp, 
generally looking single rather than bifid; postmedian of hindwing usually more angled behind the 3rd radial, 
but variable in both species. Mountains of British New Guinea, the type from Biagi. — ranensis subsp. nov. ranensis . 
Rather larger, forewing with the outer prong of the median band scarcely so acute, proximal line of hindwing 
slightly less crenulate, its post-median fairly well incurved in posterior part. Burn: Rana, type in the Tring 
Museum. 
X. sordidata Moore (25 k). Except in its large (sometimes very large) size, very similar to the brownest sordidata . 
and least strongly glossy brujata, but with much more irregular postmedian line. Generally rather strongly 
marked, both above and beneath. N. India (the typical form) and from Sumatra to Sambawa. — ab. fuscata fuscata . 
nov. is almost uniformly infuscated, the markings scarcely (on the hindwing not) discernible, with the exception 
of the white vein-clots or dashes, the forewing slightly browner between the postmedian and the subterminal. 
A S from the Ivhasis, in the Tring Museum. - robinsoni subsp. nov., from Sungei Kumbang, Korintji, W. Su- robinsoni . 
matra (Robinson and Iyloss) differs chiefly in that the antemedian of the forewing is acutely angled at both 
folds; usually, moreover, the underside shows a rather strong vinaceous tinge, especially outside the postmedian, 
where that of s. sordidata is quite pale. The type series is in the Tring Museum. — ifiimica Prout. Smaller inimica. 
(36—37 mm), darker, much less brown, well marked above, rather weakly beneath, but with large cell-dots; 
antemedian line less acutely angled than in robinsoni. W. Bali: Mondoktoempang, 2500 feet, the type S', E. 
Java: Nongkocljadjar, 4000 feet, 2 SS> somewhat- less fresh; all in the Tring Museum, sent by J. P. A. Kalis. 
I have a S from Tosari (E. A. Cockayne). — tamborica subs-p. nov. reverts to the coloration of s. sordidata or, tamborica . 
in its tendency to show some vinaceous tinge, robinsoni, but is not, or scarcely, larger than inimica (S 36 to 
38 mm, $ 40 mm) and has the cell-dot of the forewing large, broad; the wings, at least in the $, are slightly 
broader than in the other forms; antemedian line about as in s. sordidata. Tambora, Sambawa, 2500—4000 feet 
3 SS, 2 $9; in the Tring Museum. A worn S from Lombok seems to agree. 
X. hyperctenista sp. n. (25 k). Easily known from the rest of the group by its exceptionally long pect- hypercteni - 
inations. As dark as inimica, the $$ even approaching sordidata ab. fuscata but with additional median white 
vein-dots and more continuous subterminal line. Fore wing with antemedian notably oblique outward from 
costa to near cell-dot and with an acute subcostal tooth, posteriorly oblique inward and denticulate; post¬ 
median with the double lobe weak, the white distal edging strengthened at the veins; subterminal, especially 
in its posterior half, rather conspicuous. Hindwing with the post-median as little bent as in brujata, or even 
less. Both wings beneath with dark suffusion, particularly from the postmedian to near the median. Vulcan 
Island (the typical series) and Dampier Island (a pair), collected on Meek's expedition of 1913—1914. 
X. gigantis sp. n. (25 1). Similar to the brujata group in the many-lined, Horisme -like pattern of both giganiis. 
wings, but very different in the palpus, which is elongate and heavily clothed with long hair-like scales, and 
in the less broad wings, the forewing with more oblique termen, the hindwing strongly crenulate; abdomen 
less robust-. Antennal pectinations long, about as in hyperctenistis. Paler and more greyish than the brujata 
group, the hindwing beneath notably whitened, not (as in them) concolorous with the forewing. Postmedian 
