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218. Epitherapis stramineata spec, no v. 



ForeiciiKj : straw-colour, washed here and there with jiale oehreou.s ; costal 

 edge pale, with oblique dark streaks and grey-speckled towards base; first line at 

 one-fourth, angled on median, marked by black spots on veins ; outer line from 

 just before apex, oblique to vein 4, then still more oblique to inner margin before 

 middle, black, with deeper black points on veins ; followed closely by a dark smoky 

 grey shade from vein 7 to 1 ; snbmarginal line shown by whitish wedge-shaped 

 marks between veins, those above middle followed by black scaling; a grey-brown 

 triangle on hiiuhuargin from apex to vein 0, the costal space before apex whitish ; 

 cell-spot brown ; a slight brownish median shade, and a browu llusli before 

 snbmarginal line. 



Ilindiciiiij : with single obscure antemediau line ; the browu cell-spot followed 

 by a difl'use triple grey postmedian shade, bent outwards on submedian fold ; 

 snbmarginal line preceded by a row of brown patches between veins ; the margin 

 grey-brown ; fringe greyish ochreous ; inner margin and fringe grey-brown. 



Underside paler, with all the brown markings distinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour Hushed with pale brown ; palpi 

 externally and forelegs blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 c?. 



219. Garaeus papuensis spec. nov. 



Foreiviiig : rich chestnut-brown ; costa white at base, and with white patches 

 beyond all the lines ; the brown area with transverse blackish striae ; lines broad, 

 dark grey, varied with pale grey and whitish scales : first from one-fourth of costa 

 to one-third of inner margin, with dark spots on veins; outer line from three-fourths 

 of costa, oblique outwards and angled on vein G, then oblique inwards, widening 

 downwards, to two-thirds of inner margin, lunulate-dentate externally, the teeth 

 marked with white-pointed black spots on veins, followed on costa by a snow-white 

 streak ; the costa towards apex blackish, traversed by a snbmarginal white line, finely 

 waved, to a yellow spot above vein 6, then diffusely blackish and ending in a zigzag 

 whitish grey streak at anal angle ; a deeper brown median shade, angled at the 

 black cell-spot, then obliijue; fringe bright chestnut, with a yellow spot below apex. 



Hiniliciixj : greyer, mixed with blue-grey scales, and whitish along inner 

 margin ; a broad red-bruwu median shade, and a wide brown band above anal 

 angle, traversed by a bluish white lunulate-dentate snbmarginal line. 



Underside dark brown thickly sprinkled with bluish scales ; basal patch of 

 forewing, and median shades of both wings brown ; outer lines blue. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen cliestnut-brown ; vertex and shaft of antennae 

 ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 c?. 



220. Heterodisca castanea spec. nov. 

 Foretciiuj : bright chestunt-brown, with thick darker brown transverse striae; 

 but the iJaler ground-colour is only visible in the lower half of central area, all 

 the rest being clouded with dcej) brown ; lines marked by black white-tijipcd dots 

 on veins ; first nearly straight from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; 

 outer straight and oblique from five-sixths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; a 



