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angle, edged externally with paler, and followed by a series of small dark triangles ; 

 marginal area paler ; fringe dark purplish grey, with pale apices. 



Ilinchcings : with the inner edge of central fascia twice angulated ; the outer 

 edge sinuous, protuberant in middle, edged by a distinctly pale line ; marginal line 

 black, internally pale-edged. 



Underside cinereous, with darker reticulations. Palpi, face, thorax, and 

 abdomen purplish grey; vertex snow-white; antennae white. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One ? from Apia, Upolu (Woodford) ; one cj from Geraldton, Queensland 

 (Meek). 



In this 6 the hindwings are much darker, brown-black, with a paler streak 

 from base along middle of wing; the abdomen is similarly darker, with a broad 

 black basal band continuing the dark inner line of the hindwings ; the thorax and 

 face being smooth, fawn-colour. lu the forewings, instead of the submarginal 

 triangles, is a row of black dashes connected by a rust-coloured shade. 



22. Epiplema nictitans sp. nov. 



Forewings : with the ground-colour whitish, tinged with oi'hreous, and covered 

 with fine transverse dark grey striations; basal area rather darker, edged by a dark 

 shade, followed by a paler fasciaform S2)ace, with waved and curved outer edge ; 

 from middle of costa an oblique dark line runs to vein 4, is there acutely angled, and 

 then curved to inner margin at two-thirds; before the angulation is a black dash 

 preceded by a white spot ; space between this line and the inner fascia suffused with 

 fuscous ; the line is followed by a diffused paler ochreous space, which on inner 

 margin becomes white; a dark blotch on costa before apex ; a submarginal sinuous 

 row of black spots between the veins; fringe wide, the basal half darker than the 

 apical, from which it is divided by a dark line: dark dashes at apex, anal angle, and 

 beyond veins 3 and 6. 



Hindwings : with the line as on forewings; a white blotch on costa near base, 

 containing some black scales in the middle; a row of dark paler-edged lunules along 

 hindmargin. 



Underside of forewings dark grey, paler along inner margin; of hindwings 

 whitish, much varied with grey and black speckles. Face dark brown ; palpi with 

 tips dark ; thorax and abdomen dark and light grey. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



One 6 from Padang Rengas, Malay Peninsula. 



Hindmargins of wings slightly crenulate ; hindwings with blunt square teeth at 

 veins 4 and 7. 



23. Epiplema rhombifera sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale leaden-grey, with fine darker striations, and tinged in parts 

 with rufous ; the lines ferruginous, first from costa just before middle, the second 

 from costa at two-thirds, both oblique outwards parallel to each other, the second 

 bent rectangularly on vein 4 to join first line, forming an oblong which is darker 

 than the wing on either side; the point where the two lines meet touches a semi- 

 circnlar spot on inner margin, which is pale grey within, and edged with velvety 

 black; a shade formed of dark striae from costa before apex to anal angle; a row 

 of black dots before hindmargin ; fringe dark grey. 



