( 27fi ) 



postmedian line; a large oval discal ocellus, with ferruginous centre and black 

 margin, preceded in cell and followed as far as postmcdiiui line by patches of blue 

 scales; two similar but smaller patches below the first median nervule ; marginal 

 area dusted with blue scales; submarginal line black, irregular, from upper tooth to 

 beyond lower tooth ; the veins ferruginous ; in the ? the ferruginous tints are 

 absent, being obscured by the uniform grey suffusion. 



Face dark brown; vertex, collar, and antennae pale ochreous ; thorax and 

 abdomen brown. Underside of both wings dull grey. 



Expanse of wings : c?, 26 mm. ; ? , 28 mm. 



Two (?c?, one ? , from Fergusson Island, October to December. 



The hindmargin of forewings is in this species somewhat irregular, being bulged 

 below apex and again below the middle; inner and hind margin both excised on each 

 side of the anal angle ; hindwings with a tooth at end of veins 4 and 6. 



12. Epiplema denigrata sp. nov. 



Fm-ewings: white, the costa minutely dotted with black; traces of four trans- 

 verse fasciae, denoted by ochreous-yellow patches ; the fasciae lying at one-third, one- 

 half, and t wo-thirds respectively, the last being submarginal ; the patches forming the 

 fasciae are in rows along the submedian interspace, the cell, and above the subcostal 

 nervure ; the submarginal fascia consists of small spots between the veins. 



Hindwii>gs : the same, the first fascia being represented by a single yellowish 

 .spot in middle ; towards the hindmargin are a few fine threadlike fuscous strigulae ; 

 a fine blackish marginal line between the teeth ; fringe of both wings white. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Under-iiide white; hindwings with faint 

 traces of some yellowish scales before the tails. 



Expanse of wings : 24 — 26 mm. 



Two c?c?, two 5 5, from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March to May 1895. 



Allied to E. nivosaria Wlk., ruplaria Moore, and fulvUinea Hmpsn. ; distin- 

 guished by the entire absence of any black markings. 



13. Epiplema grisea sp. nov. 



Very much like E. moza Butler, from Japan, but dull pm-plish grey instead of 

 red-brown, and not speckled with darker atoms; co.sta of forewings dotted with black 

 and ochreous ; the lines blackish, with a few blackish scales on either side. In the 

 hindwings only the inner-marginal area is slightly varied with dark scales ; a curved 

 sinuous submarginal line from upper tooth to near anal angle, enclosing a darker 

 marginal cloud, is intersected by two white dashes. The hindmargin of forewings is 

 nearly entire, .showing slight irregularity only just below apex. 

 Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 

 One 5 from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, .May. 



M. Epiplema lacteata sp. nov. 

 Forewings: white, with short irregular ochreous fuscous transverse .sj)eckles; 

 costa thickly dotted with blackish ; first line indicated by three dull fuscous dots on 

 veins ; a long dull fuscous cell-.«pot ; exterior line forming an oblique costal fuscous 

 streak, and a double darker fuscous blotch on inner margin, interrupted and e.xcurved 

 between, its course indicated only by irregular fuiscous lunate blotches; a bilobed 

 fuscous blotch above middle of hindmargin, thinning off to apex ; a fuscous blotch at 

 anal angle. 



