| OCR Text |
Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN^E. 177 (15)fSAME0DES DISTICTALIS, n. sp. Differs from hilarodes in the antemedial line of fore wing being almost obsolete ; no hyaline spot beloAv the cell and the retracted portion of the postmedial line straight; the postmedial line bent inwards below costa, with a hyaline spot on its inner side instead of the hyaline band on its outer side. Hind wing Avith large hyaline spot in end of cell. Hab. Pulo Laut (Doherty). Exp. 18 mm. Type in B.M. (16)tSAMEODES FLAVIDISSIMALIS Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 105. U.S.A. (17) SAMEODES CAMBOGIALIS Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 331. fBotys lucilla Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 494. . W . Indies ; Brazil. (18)fSAMEODES CITRINALIS, n. sp. <3. Pale lemon-yellow. Fore wing with oblique antemedial fuscous line ; a large fuscous patch filling the end of cell, the area just beyond it, and extending up to costa, with a hyaline spot in end of cell and an oblique series of five spots beyond the cell between the veins ; a submarginal fuscous line obtusely angled at vein 5. Hind wing yellowish white. Hab. Dominica (W. H. Elliot). Exp. 18 mm. (19)*SAMEODES POLYTHLIPTALIS, n. sp. S . Fuscous suffused with grey ; palpi white at base ; abdomen ringed with white and with the ventral surface white. Fore wing with dark-edged hyaline spot in and below middle of cell, with traces of a line from it to inner margin ; a rounded spot in end of cell; a diamond-shaped spot below vein 2 near its origin, and a dentate postmedial band formed of four conjoined spots between costa and vein 5. Hind Aving semihyaline yelloAv with the base fuscous ; triangular fuscous marks from costa at and beyond end of cell; the terminal area fuscous suffused with grey, with irregular dark line on its inner edge and dark terminal line ; cilia white. Hab. Humboldt Bay, N. Guinea (Doherty). Exp. 26 mm. Type in Coll. Eothschild. Genus 91. MEROCTENA. Meroctena Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 392. Palpi porrect, straight, the 2nd joint fringed above and below Fig. 91. Meroctena tullalis, $. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1899, No. XII. 12 |
