NARASODES; STENARCHA. By Dr. M. Dpatjdt. 
191 
M. nigripuncta Hmps. Forewing dark brown with a small, wedge-shaped black spot at the upper nigripuncta. 
cell-end and above it two dots at the costal margin; a postmeclian, dark, oblique transverse line. Hindwings 
blackish-brown. New Guinea (Milne Bay). 
M. albata Hmps. The white forewing is slightly strewn with brown, the costal margin brown as far albata. 
as behind the middle; an antemedian row of black dots begins from a larger costal spot and is distally angled 
on the median and inner-marginal vein, a postmedian dentate line of dots begins from a larger, triangular 
costal spot and extends obliquely to the lower radial near the margin, it is proximally angled on the sub¬ 
median fold and terminates near the proximal angle; the apical costal-marginal excision is bordered with black; 
fringes brown. Hindwings yellowish-white, 2 undulate transverse lines and the apex brownish. New Guinea 
(Milne Bay). 
M. lichenia Rothsch. S'- antennae brown; head white; thorax deep chestnut-brown, mixed with lichenia. 
white, collar and shoulder-covers white, densely speckled with black scales. The forewing is excised below 
the apex, the costal margin is concave in the basal two thirds; the colour resembles the bark of trees grown 
over with lichens: reddish cinnamon-brown, mixed with greyish-white and dark brown, with more or less distinct 
ante- and postmedian transverse bands, the basal quarter almost entirely white. Hindwing in the basal half 
greyish Isabel-coloured, distally more reddish-brown. The $ is larger and differs by its very convex costal 
margin in the basal two thirds, whilst the distal third is deeply excised; basal half wood-brown, speckled with 
light and dark markings; the distal half is brownish-white with a light and a dark transverse zigzag line; in 
the apex there is a large, dark spot; hindwings dark drab; thorax dark brown; abdomen drab. Length of forewings 
S 9 1 /, mm, 9 11 mm. Biagi on the Mambare River in British New Guinea, in February. 
89. Genus: IJTarasodes Moore. 
Allied to Tampea Snell. (Ocrosia Hmps.), distinguished by longer palpi, shorter spins, and singly ciliated 
male antennae. On the forewing the two lower radial veins are not petioled, the upper radial comes from below 
the upper cell-angle; the 3rd subcostal vein is absent, the 1st and 2nd rise separately from the cell; on the 
hindwing only the subcostal and 1st radial are petioled. 
N. punctana Wlcr. Head, thorax and abdomen are light ochreous-yellow, palpi and anterior tibiae punctana. 
above blackish. Forewing light ochreous-yellowish, in the disc more or less dusted red-brown; on the submedian 
fold often some black scales; an antemedian, indistinct, oblique, undulate line; another one extends from the 
middle of the costa to the lower cell-angle, where there is a small heap of black scales; from there straight to 
the proximal margin; a similar, indistinct postmedian line rises near the middle one at the costal margin, exten¬ 
ding very obliquely towards the margin as far as the 2nd radial, then near the margin and parallel to the proxi¬ 
mal margin. Hindwings yellowish-white, dusted brownish, at the margin ochreous-yellow. Expanse of wings: 
12 to 16 mm. Calcutta; Ceylon. 
N. hampsoni nom. nov. (== lithosioides Hmps. nec Snell.). Head and thorax ochreous-brown, hampsoni. 
abdomen brownish, anal tuft and venter yellowish. Forewing red-brown; the apex is crossed by a dark line. 
Hindwings blackish-brown. Borneo, Java. 
t 
N. fasciata Rothsch. S', head orange buff, antennae dark grey, thorax greyish cliocolate-brown, fasciata. 
abdomen brownish-grey. Forewing orange-buff, an oblique median band and. a marginal band are greyish 
chocolate-brown. Hindwings brownish or yellowish-grey. Length of forewings: 7 mm. Milne Bay, New Guinea, 
in January. 
90. Genus: Steitarclia Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding by shorter, erect palpi, the lower radial veins on the forewing petioled, 
whilst on the hindwing the 1st median is petioled with the two lower radial veins, the subcostal and 1st radial 
rising on a long footstalk. 
S. stenopa Meyr. (16 b) has blackish-brown forewings with irregular, white ante- and postmedian stenopa. 
bands bordered with dark; fringes whitish. West Australia. 
