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with a black border. Thorax brownish, abdomen orange. $ without wings. ■—- f. inquinata Luc. has the forewings inquinata. 
almost entirely dusted with red-brown, grey are only a spot at the proximal margin, one at the costal margin 
behind the middle, and a small curved spot before the apex. Victoria. 
X. semiochrea Btlr. has unicolorously red-brown forewings and orange-yellow hindwings with a semiochrea. 
brown apical spot and a fine brown marginal line. Queensland. 
55. Genus : Poliodiile Hmps. 
Proboscis stunted; the palpi project yet a little beyond the forehead and are directed straight forward; 
$ antennae doubly combed; the posterior tibiae are without the middle spurs. The narrow forewings are roughly 
haired; the 2nd and 3rd radials are on a joint footstalk, like the 1st radial and 5th subcostal veins; the 3rd 
and 4th are absent. 
P. xanthodelta Lower. The yellowish-grey forewing is thickly dusted with a blackish brown; the xanthodelta. 
base is at the proximal and costal margins of a light orange-yellow like a large, triangular spot in the costal 
centre. Hindwing orange-yellow with a broad, blackish-brown marginal band. The $ is presumably without 
wings. New South Wales. 
56. Genus: Holocraspedum Hmps. 
The only species known exteriorly resembles certain Mswra-species. Proboscis well developed; the 
erect palpi are rather long and project beyond the forehead. On the wings the subcostal veins are like in Xantho- 
dule, the 2nd radial rises above the lower cell-angle. 
H. nigripuncta Hmps. (17 b) shows on its yellowish-white forewings 2 flawed, black transverse lines , nigripuncta. 
2 dots in the cell, and irregular, connected, antemarginal streak-spots. Fringes ochreous-yellow. Hindwing 
of a somewhat darker yellow. Ceylon. The cocoon being formed of a network is suspended on a thread. 
57. Genus: Metengoa Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding by a conical projection of the forehead and a longer, more slender 
abdomen. Forewings not different, but on the hindwing the upper cell-end in the q is very much produced, the 
transverse vein strongly angled, the 2nd subcostal vein is fused with the 1st radial. 
M. ochrivena Hmps. (17 b). Forewing greyish-brown with brownish-black transverse markings and ochrivena. 
a broad, dark median band of the <$; the $ is ochreous, dusted dark brown with black dots in the middle of the 
cell and at its end, the brown median band is absent, only an antemarginal, irregular, undulate, darker line is 
expanded at the costal margin into a spot. Assam; Borneo. 
M. obliquiata Hmps. (17 b) shows on the dull ochreous-yellow forewing two oblique blackish transverse obliquiata. 
lines and small, irregular, longitudinal stripes in the cell and before the margin. Hindwing tinged brownish- 
black towards the margin. Singapore. 
M. melanoleuca Hmps. has quite black forewings with a white antemedian transverse band being melanoleu - 
very broad at the proximal margin and growing narrower towards the costa, and a white subapical spot. Hind- ca 
wing black with a white band from near the base as far as beyond the middle, not reaching the proximal margin. 
-—-New Guinea (Milne Bay). 
M. fasciosa Rothsch. (17 a) is much larger than the preceding. The forewing is white with grey bands fasciosa. 
from the costa to the submedian; near the base one band, then two almost straight to the proximal margin, 
between them a cell-dot; behind the cell a broad band flowing together with the marginal band on the 3rd 
radial; the costal margin is finely bordered with grey. Hindwings drab, in the discal area lighter. From the 
Salomon-Island of Isabel. 
58. Genus: JBrachiosia Hmps. 
Only one small species with a well developed proboscis, porrect palpi just reaching the forehead, with 
short and broad forewings and a curved costal margin. On the forewing the 3 lower subcostal veins are petioled, 
the two upper ones separate. On the hindwing the 1st median vein anastomoses with the 3rd radial, the 2nd 
subcostal vein and,1st radial rise on an extremely long footstalk. 
