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Hindinngs : the same, but without first line. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; eyes brown. Underside the same, with 

 the cell-spots only black. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



Four S S from Fergusson Island. October to December. 



fio. Panaethia atrimargo sp. nov. 



Foreivinf/s : yellow ; the costa broadly black ; hindmargin black fi-om just beyond 

 middle of costa to before anal angle; its inner edge curved and slightly waved; no 

 trace of grey subterminal shade, as in cyanoxantlui Aleyr. 



Ilindwings : with the marginal one-fourth black. 



Face, thorax, and abdomen yellow; collar blackisli ; pal[ii fuscous. Under.side 

 like upper. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One $ from Fergusson Island, December. 



Subfamily EUBYJINAE. 



C6. Cusiala semiumbrata sp. nov. 



FoTCtvinigs : white, with dark atoms; the whole wing, except along inner margin 

 and a patch at middle of hindmargin, overspread with rufous fuscous, the base along 

 costa being somewhat paler ; first line at one-third, blackish, angulated ; outer line at 

 two-thirds, irregularly dentate, excurved opposite the cell, and incurved below it, where 

 it throws out an angle to touch the central line ; central line vertical and wavy, 

 touching an irregular S-shajjed discal mark, and nearly touching outer line on inner 

 margin ; submarginal line parallel and near to hindmargin, slightly waved ; a row of 

 black spots along hindmargin between veins ; fringe white, fuscous above. 



Hi'udwings : white, speckled with fuscous olive, without dark suffusion; the 

 extreme base fuscous; two sinuous bent blackish lines, one before, the other beyon<l 

 the middle; submarginal line black and straight from anal angle to ojiposite cell, 

 then angled to costa ; fringe white. 



P'ace and palpi dark grey ; vertex and thorax smoky grey ; abdomen whitish, grey 

 at base. Underside of forewings dirty white at base and along inner margin ; apical 

 half dull smoky grey, except the whitish spot in middle of hindmargin; hindwings 

 ■wholly dull white. 



Expanse of wings : (iO mm. 



One cJ from Fergusson Island, December. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



G7. Cliogada epistictis .Meyr., Tr. K. S. (1889), p. 499. 

 The examination of seventeen specimens from Fergusson and Trobriand Islands 

 shows this to be a much more variable species than Mr. Meyrick's description would 

 lead one to suppose. Indeed, I am not sure that the species described by him on the 

 previous page as lioarmia caliicrussa, also from Port iMoresby, is not one of its 

 aberrations; and if such should prov(! to be the case, the name cnlUcrossa nmst be 

 retained for tiie species. The " flat spreading tuft of white scales from posterior edge 

 of thorax covering base of abdomen in the c? " is very distinct in all the c?c?. Of 

 this, in adlicrossa, Mr. Meyrick makes no mention ; but his description of the ^ 



