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brown, forelegs red with darker tibiae palely rinajed, mid and hind pair ])ale bnft'-coloiir. 

 Primary brightish red up to the postmedial line, dark reddish grey beyond ; ante- 

 medial line double, the enter one the darker, botli interrupted at the subcostal vein, 

 beyond whicli is a small jiale red round spot darkly but finely eneiroled ; outside tliis 

 a band of dark shading curved from the costa to the lower margin of the cell, 

 whence to the inner margin it is obliquely straight ; beyond this the reniform 

 stigma shows slightly grey in a paler red area, which is sharply margined by a 

 double postraedial irregular subdcntatc line, the rest of the wing being reddish- 

 brownish grey, iu whicli is the siibterminal obscure recurved row of dark dots, 

 which have an obscure trace of a reddish external edging; termen iiah-, fringes 

 dark. Secondaries jiale yellowisli grey wifh the terminal area pinkish. Underside 

 of both wings quite jiale, with tiie posi marginal area darker. 



Expanse : 40 — 41 mm. 



Ildh. Ekeikei, where the species flies from January to Ajiril. 



Type in my collection. 



3. Protagrotis novaguinensis spec. nov. 



c?. Head greyish brown, face pale ochreous grey, palpi dark brown, the scales 

 at the tip of the second segment ])alely edged, third segment i)aler with a dark 

 patch below ; collar brownish grey, thorax darker ; patagiae brownish grey with a 

 dark central stripe from the shoulder, below whicli is a broad pale stripe ; abdomen 

 pale greyish, the last segment but one dark brown, the neighbouring segments 

 being also suffused with that colour. Primary greyish brown, darker along the 

 costa to the lower margin of the cell, an obscure pale stripe extending from near 

 the apex, where it rises in a small pale apical patch, to the inner marginal area, 

 which is also slightly paler than other parts of the wing; a snbbasal jiatch of 

 raised i)ale scales from the costa to the inner margin of the coll, antemedial line 

 broken and obscure, postmedial line irregular, strongly incurved towards the end 

 of the cell, beyond which is a curved row of dark spots ; termen darkly dotted ; 

 orbicular stigma obscure ; reniform evanescent (in pale specimens, especially 

 females, both these stigmata are moderately distinct); cilia pale with a darker 

 central line. Secondary uniform dark brownish grey, somewhat lustrous witii 

 paler fringes. 



Undersurface : Primary dark grey with a broadish reddish costa and a very 

 broad whitish inner margin. Secondary whitish, with costa slightly irrorated with 

 reddisii ; apex and termen blackish brown, broad at the apex, but rapidly tapering 

 to vein 1. 



?. Like the male, bnt the primary ochreous grey above ; in all other respects 

 just like the male above and below. 



Expanse : c? 44 — 4(1 mm. ; ? 40 — 44 mm. 



JIab. Ekeikei, January to April. 



Tyjie in my collection. 



This species differs somewhat inter se ; the males are sometimes paler, and the 

 females slightly reddish. 1 have one specimen of the latter of a decided reddish 

 ochre colour. 



Epa gen. nov. 

 cJ. Head roughly haired ; eyes smooth, lashed ; antennae finely, very shortly 

 ciliate ; palpi npturned, end segment minute, deflexed, not reaching the vertex of 



