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17. Epiplema sordida sp. nov. 



Foreivings : dirty whitish, inckled with fuscous atoms and strigae; costa dotted 

 with brown, and with two or tln-ee larger fuscous spots and blotches towards apex ; 

 lines indistinct, the first denoted by fuscous spots on the veins, the second by an 

 oblique shade from costa ; submarginal shown by three or four brownish spots before 

 the subapical excision, which is shallow and reaches to middh^ of hindmargin. 



Hindwings : with some darker indistinctly expressed markings down the middle ; 

 postmedian line pale brown, near the hindmargin, obtusely angled in the middle and 

 double from the angulation to the inner margin ; a diffuse fuscous cloud beyond it ; 

 a black curved marginal line from upper tooth to lower, where it becomes thicker and 

 is followed by a small dark spot ; fringes of both wings pale ochreous, except between 

 the teeth of hindwings, where they are blackish with a j-ellowish basal line. 



Face and palpi deep red-brown; head, thorax, and abdomen white, the last with 

 two fuscous lines on the penultimate segment corresponding to thedouUe postmedian 

 line of hindwings. Underside of both wings smoky ochreous brown ; the hindmargin 

 of hindwings paler, with a black dot before lower tooth. 



Exjjanse of wings : 24 mm. 



Two cJ t? from Fergusson Island, Octolier. 



18. Epiplema undulata sp. nov. 



Foreivings : whitish, denselj' irrorated and suffused with iron-grey; the costa 

 darker, speckled with white and black ; no first line visible ; second line from three- 

 fourths of costa to inner margin before anal angle, blackish edged outwardly with 

 rufous, sinuous outwards to middle, where it forms a blunt tooth, then strongly 

 incurved and again nnining outwards to a dark patch, which is contiguous to a rufous 

 patch at anal angle ; a cloudy shade from costa before apex to anal angle ; a sub- 

 marginal line formed of small lilack dashes between the veins ; fringe rufous and 

 grey, with a dark basal line. 



Hiiuhnnrjs : paler, but with the costal area much sufifused with mixed fuscous, 

 olive, and rufous shades ; a dark cm-ved antemedian line ; a double sinuous [lostmedian 

 line, the inner branch the thicker ; a confused sinuous submarginal shade and a 

 double crenulate submarginal line of black lunules, edged with lustrous leaden scales ; 

 fringe pale, becoming bronzy rufous in upper half of margin. 



Palpi black; face grey; vertex and shaft of antennae white; collar blackish; 

 thorax and patagia pale shining grey ; abdomen dull grey, with the basal segment 

 black. Underside of forewings dark grey, dusted with pale along costa ; of Iiindwings 

 whitish, dusted with fuscous towards apex. 



Expanse of wrings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Fergusson Island, December. 



Very much like Phazaca erosioides Wlk., which, however, has the hindwings 

 almost wholly whitish. 



10. Gathynia albibasis sp. nov. 

 Foreioinrjs : cinereous, dusted with darker; the costa blackish; the lines dark, 

 the first at one-third, curved in middle, the second at two-thirds, slightly curved to 

 anal angle, the first edged internally, the second externally, with dull yellowish ; a 

 thin black submarginal line from a})ex, sharply angulated and incurved below apex 

 and not reaching inner margin ; fringe cinereous. 



