( 34-J ) 



apex nairowly fuscous; a large fuscous and ocluvous spot on mirldle of liiudinargin, 

 traversed by a line of four or five black spots ; fringe dark. 



Hindtvinr/s: with basal two-thirds mottled with fuscous and purple, and bounded 

 by a curved shade, followed by a straggling fuscous cloud running to hiudinargin 

 below lower tooth ; a row of three or four blackish spots from costa before apex ; a 

 fuscous dark-edged shade along hinduiargin from apex to below lower tooth, where it 

 is cut liy a whitish dash. 



Underside whitish, in the forewings mottled with fuscous. Head wanting ; 

 thorax and abdomen dark grey ; metathorax with a white blotch. 



Expanse of wings : 11 mm. 



One S from the Tenimber Islands, July 1892 (W. Doherty). 



Akin to E. quadristriyaUi. W'lk. and lituralis Warr., l.iut not half the size. 



35. Epiplema oculifera sp. nov. 



Fore%mn()S : ochreous, tinged with rufous gve}' ; first line brown, at one-third, 

 indistinctly marked ; second line at two-thirds, obliquely curved and bent outwards 

 to midwing near hindmargin, where it is angled, then olilique inwards and obsolescent 

 to a brown patch on inner margin at three-fourths ; a straight brown line from just 

 before apex to below middle of hindmargin ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwings: with a reddish brown-edged discal ocellus; outer line pale, with 

 dark edges, the inner edge broadest, running out into a broad prominence before 

 second tooth ; a curved brown line from tooth to tooth, and a l)rown blotch with a 

 wliite dash above it below lower tooth ; fringe greyish ochreous, with paler base. 



Underside dull ochreous; a dark spot before lower tooth of hindwings. Face 

 and jialpi brown-black ; thorax and abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



Three SS from Dili, Timor, May 1892 (W. Doherty). 



30. Epiplema perpolita sp. no\. 



Very close to E. lilacina Moore, from which it differs by the almost entire 

 absence of darker striae and irrorations, which gives the insect a smoother appearance ; 

 outer line of forewings more stronglv denticulate opposite the cell, the lower arm 

 forming a single curve to inner" margin, where it ends in a thickened line, not 

 preceded, as in lilacina, by a fuscous blotch. Hindwings with the fuscous mottlings 

 of the inner-marginal half obsolete ; the dark brown blotch on the inner edge of the 

 postmedian line towards inner margin reduced to a streak. 



Two c?c? from IJanda, August 18'J2 (W. Doherty). 



The antennae are, as in lilacina, uniserrate, tlie teeth close and curved. 



37. Epiplema nifimargo sp. nov. 



Foreioini/ii : wliite ; costa spotted with rufous grey, and sometimes the basal two- 

 thirds; first line marked by three dark sjiots across wing; second line shaped as in 

 bicaudata Moore, but rufoiis grey with hardly darker edges ; the whole of the 

 marginal area filled up with rufous, except a small white spot beyond the second line 

 on costa and inner margin ; some blackish spots towards apex and a blackish cloud 

 at anal angle ; fringe wholly rufous. 



Hindwings: with rufous curved anteincdian line ; angulated rufous postmedian 



