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veins finely pale towards onter margin ; fringe grey ; three black costal spots 

 before apex. 



Hindi ring : blackish, the speckling and striae coarse and close; a black line 

 close to base ; outer line bluntly angled on vein 4 ; some slight dark lnnules at 

 lower tooth. 



Underside uniform dull fuscous ; the costa of forewing ochreous. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex and shoulders pale grey ; thorax and abdomen 

 like forewing ; underside and legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : <S 28 mm. ; ? 32 mm. 



1 <?, 1 ?. 



Forewing excised from 7 to 4, then straight and oblique ; hindwing toothed at 

 7 and 4, less so at ; margin straight from 4 to anal angle. 



The c? is darker, without striations or speckling, and smaller; the outer line 

 fine and indistinct ; the fringe darker, with a slight ferruginous line at base ; 

 underside of hindwing dull ochreous with dark speckling aud a smoky brown 

 submarginal shade. 



The aberration subrufa differs from the type in being rufons speckled with 

 darker instead of fuscous ; the dark costal spots visible, but the lines, though 

 traceable, very obscure; fringe red-brown ; hindwing rather darker, with equally 

 obscure markings. Underside ochraceous ; forewing with a dark cloud towards 

 base, leaving costa and margin pale ; hindwing as in the type c?, but more 

 ochraceous. 



Expause of wings : 30 mm. 



3 <?<?. 



These three insects may represent a distinct species ; it is difficult, in the case 

 of New Guinea forms, to decide on first acquaintance, especially if the series is 

 small, to what rank to assign them. 



50. Epiplema sulcata spec. nov. 



Forewing : whitish, thickly grey-speckled, in the ? tinged with darker grey ; 

 cell-spot dark, followed beyond middle by a broad vertical darker fascia, of which 

 the inner edge is diffuse and the outer obscurely angulated on vein 5 and concave 

 on each side, the lower end below vein 2 filled up with bright brown, the costal 

 end grey ; snbmargiual line vertical, blackish grey, formed of elongated blotches 

 between veins ; a row of distinct black lnnules from costa before apex to vein 2 ; 

 fringe grey, dark-dotted. 



Hindwing : with an inner aud outer line, both bluntly angled above vein 4, 

 dark brown in ¥ , ferruginous in <?; a row of dark lunules, with brown or ferruginous 

 edges, before outer margin, the ground-colour of c? being reddish grey, aud of ? 

 purplish fuscous; space between vein] and the submedian fold whitish, without 

 scaling. 



Underside of forewing in S pinkish ochreous, of hindwing whitish ; in ? 

 brownish, of hindwing ochreous, becoming browu along costa ; antemedian and 

 pi isi median tufts of hair on costa of hindwing, ochreous in J, dark grey in ?. 



Face and palpi black-brown ; vertex aud auteunal shaft white ; thorax pale 

 grey; abdomen ochreous in <$, dark fuscous in ?. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 <J, 1 ?. 



