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Subfamily BRACCINAE. 



00. Craspedosis semiplaga sp. nov. 

 Foreinngs : I^lack, with a narrow obliijuc white fascia from below costa at middle 

 to above anal angle, of nearly uniform width fliroughout. 

 Hindivings : wholly black. 



Body and underside black ; forewings with the white fascia of uppersidi>. 

 Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 

 Two 6<S, one ¥, from Fergusson Island, November. 



CI. Craspedosis uniplaga sp. nov. 



Fore^mnfjs : black, with a rather narrow oblique white fascia from below middle 

 of costa to above anal angle, narrowest at top, swollen in tlie middle, and lilunf, 

 slightly incm-ved, below. 



Hindivings : with a large round white spot fdling the basal half. 



Head, thorax, and alidomen black. Underside the same. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One cJ, one ?, from Fergusson Island, November and December. 



02. Craspedosis funebris sp. nov. 



Wings above dull smoky brown-black, with a purplish and greenish tinge in 

 certain lights. Forewings with extremely faint traces of a slightly paler fascia from 

 middle of costa to anal angle. Underside darker, the traces of the fascia on fore- 

 wings more distinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One ? from Fergusson Island, November. 



The solitary example is worn and without antennae. 



0,3. Panaethia flexilinea sp. nov. 



Forewings: slate-colour; a black spot at base; a pair of black basal lines, 

 curved outwards in middle and thickened on the median vein, incurved towards base 

 below ; a black central line, slightly outcurved in the upper part, vertical below, 

 touching a large black oval cell-spot ; an oblique black line thickened on the veins 

 and slightly excurved above inner margin ; a broad black fascia-form line parallel to 

 hindmargin ; a submarginal series of spots, oval above and rounded below ; a marginal 

 series of blotches ; the spots and blotches of the last two series separated by the paler 

 veins; fringe blackish. 



Hindwings : the same, with only a single basal line. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark slate-colour; face and palpi darker. Under- 

 side dark cloudy blackish, with the cell-spots black. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



Four cJ c? from Fergusson Island, Septemlier to Decendier. 



04. Panaethia obsoleta sp. nov. 



Forewings: dull smoky slate-colour; a deep black oval cell-spot; (irsi line 

 indistinct, marked by a dull black costal sfiot and another at base of first median ; a 

 fine curved blackish exterior line, obsolete below tirst median ; a submarginal row of 

 dull blackish lilotches ; fringe concolorous. 



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