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ACOSMETIA; PAROMPHALE; DYSMILICHIA. By W. Warren. 
line very indistinct, greyish with slight black streaks before it at middle; a terminal series of white points, and 
nigrifusa. some black points at base of fringe; hindwing brownish grey; in an aberration nigrif usa ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) 
the head, thorax, and forewing are largely suffused with black. Blackrock, Victoria. 
113. Genus: Acosmetia Stph. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with a small rounded prominence; palpi upturned, short, and slightly 
scaled; antennae of d ciliated; thorax and abdomen without crests; build slender; forewing short and broad; 
neuration normal. Larva on loAvgrowing plants. Type A. caliginosa Hbn. 
tenuipennis. A. tenuipersnis Hmps. (31 a). Forewing rather narrower than typical; purplish grey suffused and irrora- 
ted with reddish brown; inner line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly angled outwards on subcostal 
and median nervures, then oblique; the stigmata absent; outer line indistinctly double filled in with grey, out- 
bent- shortly below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, grey defined on inner side 
by dark suffusion; terminal dark striae; hindwing purplish grey tinged with brown. Described from a single 
<3 from Formosa. 
114. Genus: l^aroinphalt* Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with a small truncate conical prominence with raised rim and corneous 
plate below it; palpi obliquely upturned, short, the second segment roughly scaled in front, the third short; 
antennae of d ciliated; thorax and abdomen without crests; wings of normal shape and neuration, except 
that in hindwing veins 3 and 4 are shortly stalked. Type P. caeca Swinh. 
P. caeca Swinh. <$. Forewing rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line slight, double, black¬ 
ish; inner line double, the inner arm indistinct, the outer strong, black, waved, nearly erect; orbicular and 
reniform strongly defined by black, the former minute, round, the latter rather constricted at middle and open 
above; an indistinct sinuous median line; outer line strong, black, strongly out-bent- below costa, then waved, 
excurved t-o vein 4, then incurved t-o lower edge of reniform; subterminal line slight, dark, preceded by a 
blackish cloud at costa; a punctiform black terminal line; hindwing pale reddish brown; the $ is much darker; 
fore wing with the median area suffused with black; the inner line on inner side and the outer on outer side 
defined by grey scales. Queensland and W. Australia. 
115. Genus: Dysmilittliia Speiser. 
Tongue well developed; palpi short, porrect, the second segment hairy; frons with truncate conical 
prominence with raised rim and a corneous plate below it; antennae of typically with simple ciliations; 
thorax and abdomen without crests. Type D. gemella Leech. 
Sect-. I. Antennae of serrate. 
rufalis. B. rufalis Beth.-Baher (29 1). Fore wing orange red dusted with fiery red to outer line; the inner margin 
brown; terminal area grey brown, dusted with fiery red; inner and outer lines double, filled in with orange red; 
stigmata orange red outlined in black; the orbicular small and round; the reniform with a red line at- centre; 
subterminal line formed of red and brown marks; hindwing white; the veins and termen tinged with pale 
rufous. British New Guinea. A large and conspicuous species. 
Sect-. II. Antennae of ciliated. 
calamistmia. D. calamistrata Moore (29 1). Forewing deep rufous; a white dot at base; inner line marked by a white 
costal striga and white spots on median vein and vein 1; orbicular stigma round and snowwliite; reniform 
8-shaped with a white black edged annulus interrupted in middle; outer line consisting of small elongate 
white spots traversed at- middle by a fine red line; subterminal line pale, preceded by a dark shade, and mark¬ 
ed with white at both extremities; hindwing pale rufous. Occurs in Sikkim and in the Ivhasia Hills, Assam. 
