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UnilersiJe dull groy-lirown, wiHi darker cellspots, median, and outer lines ; the 

 snbterminal lines, termen, and fringe lilac-grey. 



Head and thorax brown, the abdomen fuscous grey. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



1 c? from Palaboehan Ratoe, Wynkoopsbaai, Java (Fnihstorfer). Belongs to 

 the group including acuta, Moore, maturata Moore, duplexa Moore, etc., from 

 all which it is distinguished by the pinkish ochreous antemedian belt. 



18. Ophiusa flexilinea spec. nov. 



Forcwing : brownish fuscous to outer line, crossed before middle by an oblique 

 whitish belt, broader at each extremity, where it is slightly discoloured by pinkish 

 brown suffusion, and containing a small dark dot in cell ; the outer line, limiting the 

 brown area, narrowly white, obliquely curved outwards from costa to below vein Ti, 

 incurved to 4, then vertical to 3, and sinnous to inner margin, above which it is 

 shortly again outcurved ; terminal area whitish grey tinged with brown, which 

 forms a shade parallel to outer line, widening to tornus and containing two dark 

 blotches on veins 3 and 4 ; a dark brown triangular apical blotch, its apex reaching 

 vein 6 and bent inwards to outer line ; terminal line blackish, preceded by a row of 

 black dots ; fringe grey with a pale base. 



Ilindwing: blackish fuscous, with a faint pale median curved band; a short 

 whitish subterminal striga above anal angle ; the termen irregularly yellowish white 

 from middle to below vein 2. 



Underside dull fuscous grey, with outer and subterminal lines dark in each 

 wing, and dark discal spots. 



Head, thorax, and dorsum fuscous brown; palpi externally, the fore- and mid- 

 tibiae and femora also fuscous ; pectus and venter greyer. 



Expanse of wings: 50 mm. 



A series from the Solomon Islands ; Vella Lavella (type). New Georgia, 

 Bougainville, Choiseul, Florida, and Guadalcanar. 



19. Ophiusa cuneilineata spec. nov. 



Forewing : grey-brown, sutlused with fuscous and black-speckled in basal half 

 of wing and beyond outer line ; subbasal and inner lines brown edged with paler, 

 slightly inwardly obliijue; median line also brown and parallel, without pale 

 edging ; outer line brown, externally edged with yellow, excurved below costa and 

 oblique to vein 6, outwardly toothed on 6, 5, and 4 and inwardly between the veins, 

 highly excurved from the tooth below vein 4 to submodian fold, on which it is 

 angled inwards, followed by a dark grey diffuse fascia ; a brownish apical mark 

 becoming deep black between veins and T, outwardly edged by a yellow line bent 

 inwards along vein 6 ; terminal area be3'ond the obscurely marked subterminal line, 

 paler ; subterminal spots black ; fringe dark grey with yellowish basal line. 



Hindwing : dark fuscous, darker subterminally ; the termen dull grey. 



Underside pale grey-brown with indistinct darker lines and cellspots. 



Head and thorax brownish ; the abdomen pale fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 ? from Lifu, Loyalty Islands. The outer line much resembles that of 

 dentiliiiea Beth.-Baker, but the other lines are altogether different. 



