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Hindwings : with a broad median dark chocolate band, edged with pale ochreous, 

 and marked with some black spots in middle ; marginal area chocolate-brown above 

 the middle, leaden-grey below; a line of leadeu-grey, black, and ochreons scales 

 before hindmargin from upper tooth to near anal angle. 



Underside cinereous, mottled with dark. Face and palpi chocolate-brown; 

 thorax and abdomen leaden-grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Oinainisa, Dutch Timor, NovembtM- and December ISUl (Doherty). 



The species mimics Dirades conifera Moore, but the neuration is that of an 

 Epiplema. The hindmargin of hindwings is angled at veins 7 and 4: the forewings 

 are entire. 



24. Epiplema ruptifascia sp. nov. 



Forewhn/s : chalk-white, faintly discoloured with ochreous in places ; costa 

 with a few purplish fuscous dots ; a central curved purplish grey fascia with brown 

 edges, interrupted between veins 2 and 4, the outer edge only marked there by a 

 dot on vein 3, followed in the middle by a fine brown line ; hindmargin with a 

 narrow grey cloud at apex and middle, with a row of four black dots between; fringe 

 fuscous, white above anal angle. 



Hindwings : with only the margins of the fascia expressed, the inner thick and 

 blackish; a series of grey lunules along hindmargin, that below lower tooth enlarged, 

 and preceded by a grey cloud ; fringe grey. 



Underside of forewings grey, of hindwings white. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 white ; paljii blackish; antennae ferruginous. 



Expanse of wings: 14 mm. 



One S from Bali, March and April ISOO (VV. Doherty). 



Antennae thickened and flattened, strongly serrate. The species resembles 

 E. nana Warr. from Dili, Timor. 



25. Gathynia albibasis alj. seminigra ab. uov. 



In Vol. III. of Nov. ZooL., p. 278, I described G. albibasis from Fergusson 

 Island, and stated that the ? differed from the cj in having the larger half of the 

 hindwings black. I find that this peculiarity is not confined to the ? , and the 

 examples in which it occurs must be treated as an aberration from the more 

 common type-form. 



26. Gathynia lignata sp. uov. 



Forewings : reddish brown, with dark specklings : the base and costa grey and 

 fuscous; a blackish fascia just beyond middle, the outer edge slightly sinuous, nearly 

 parallel to hindmargin ; interrupted bidow the median by the red-brown ground- 

 colour, the lower part forming a truncated semicircular blotch on inner margin ; a 

 narrow dark marginal shade from apex; fringe iron-grey. 



Hiiidwifigs : with antemedian and postmedian dark brown curved lines, both 

 slightly toothed in middle : fringe dark. 



Face and palpi ilark brown ; thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen paler grey. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



One S from Bali, March and April 1S96 (W. Doherty). 



