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Underside pale grey, with reddish reflections ; fringes whitish. Face and palpi 

 brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey. 

 Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 

 One 6 from Bali, March and April 1896 (W. Doherty). 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 

 Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 

 29. Oenochroma simplex sp. unv. 



Foreivings : ochreons fawn-colour, sprinkled with blackish scales ; fringe 

 ferrnginous. 



Ilindicings : ochreons white, with a few dark scales near anal angle. 



Underside of forewings dull whitish towards base, greyer towards hindmargiu, 

 slightly dnsted with rosy scales ; a deep rosy ovoid blotch from vein 2 to 4 beyond 

 cell. Hind wings dnsted with rosy. Head, thora-K, and abdomen fawn-grey; base 

 of abdomen and pectns woolly, white. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One cJ from Roebonrne, West Australia. 



The hindwings agree in shape rather with decolorata Warr. tlian with vinaria 

 Gnen. 



Subfamily OBTHOSTIXINAE. 



30. Derxena discata sp. nov. 



Forewings: nearly transparent, iridescent white, with a faint bhiisli tinge: a 

 large ronnd black spot on the discocellnhir. 



Ilindwinfis : the same. 



Underside like npper ; head, thorax, and al)domon concolorons ; the anal 

 segments of abdomen darker. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One cJ from Etna Bay, Xew Oninea, August 1896 (Webster). 



31. Noreia albifimbria sp. nov. 



? . Forewings : dark mouse-colour, the lines ferruginous ; the first slender, 

 indistinct, at onc-fourtli of costa, evenly curved to one-third of inner margin ; cell- 

 spot linear ; second line from costa at three-fourths, oblique outwards and indistinct 

 to vein 6, where it is bluntly angled and runs to inner margin at two-thirds, slightly 

 waved between the veins and edged outwardly with pale yellowish, liceoming more 

 distinct as it approaches tlie inner margin ; xi fine black-brown marginal line; fringe 

 pale yellowish white. 



lliMlu-ings : like forewings, without lirst line or cell-spot ; the line post- 

 median. 



Underside dark fnscons, with tlie cell-sjiot and onter line in each wing blackish, 

 the latter curved below costa; fringe as above. Face and palpi brown-black; vertex, 

 thorax, and abdomen concolorons witli wings. 



Another example, also a ?, is jiale dove-grey above and mouse-grey below. 



Expanse of wings : 42—48 mm. 



Two ? ¥ from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, Augnst and September 1896 

 (W. Doherty). 



