( ri74 ) 



fuscous from anal angle of liimlwing to tail ; in c? with a fuscous blotch above 

 aual angle. 



Expanse of wings : <?, 50 mm. ; ? , .i2 mm. 



Two dS, two ? ?, from Fergusson Island, .September to November. 



].,ike U. panndia Feld., but that species has no trace of transverse lines or streaks 

 on the disc of either wing. 



6. Stesichora quadripunctata sp. nov. 



Foretvings : white, with a small black blotch at apex, and some black dots on 

 costa at irregular intervals, but more numerous towards base. 



Hindwings : white, with a black .spot in the tail and a small black spot on the 

 margin below it ; the hindmargin on either side of the tail with a fine black line. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and underside of wings all pure white. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



One ? from Fergusson Island, December. 



A pair unnamed are in the British Museum collection from Xew Guinea. I)i.s- 

 tinguished from 5. 'pudlaria Wlk. by the much smaller size and proportionately 

 broader wings. 



7. Stesichora quadristrigata sp. nov. 



Forewings : white, with three or four costal spots near base ; four erect blackish 

 lines from inner margin, none of them attaining the costa ; first near base oblique 

 outwards; second parallel to first, from inner margin before middle; both these 

 lines end at the costal vein ; third broader than the first two and slightly diver- 

 gent in direction, at the same distance from second as second from first, and not 

 reaching costal vein ; fourth from before anal angle parallel to hindmargin, reaching 

 only to middle of wing. 



Ili'iuhvings : white, with three pale greyish fulvous streaks from costa, a 

 narrower one along inner margin, and two rows of fine strigulae towards hind- 

 margin, all fused in a dull fulvous cloud at anal angle ; hindmargin with five black 

 spots, the two upper the smalle.st. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and all underside white ; forelegs tinged with fuscous; 

 face quite narrow ; eyes large. 



Expanse of mngs : 48 mm. 



Two ? ? from Fergusson Island, November and December. 



Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 



8. Dirades annulifer sp. nov. 



Foremnga : dull grey, dusted with darker ; a thick black ring on inner margin 

 beyond middle, to the edges of which two faintly darker oblique and curved lines can 

 be traced from the costa before and beyond middle ; a series of minute submarginal 

 black dots on the veins hardly forming a line ; fringe grey. 



Hindwings : like forewings, the inner half darker, edged by a dark curved line 

 from middle of costa to inner margin above an;il angle; fringe leaden grey, with a 

 dark jiale-edged basal line. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the anal tuft ochreous ; vertex and shaft of 

 antennae white. L'nderside dull dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One cf from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, April. 



