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fi4. Craspedia discata sp. nov. 



Forewingg : boue-colour, without any dark dusting, except sometimes a few 

 sparsely scattered scales near base; the lines fine and delicate; first at one-third, 

 curved; median shade tliicker, excnrved round cell, both very pale ochreous ; outer 

 line grey or ochreons grey, blackish at the costa, finely subdeuticulatc ; submarginal 

 line very faint, between two pale ochreons shades ; marginal dots black; fringe bone- 

 colonr ; cell-spot black, distinct. 



llindwitKjs : similar, without first line, and the cell-spot large and black. 

 Underside with cell-spots and outer line alone marked. Paljii bone-colour 

 below, black above ; face black ; vertex whitish ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and 

 abdomen like wings, the latter without black dorsal spots. 

 Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



Several from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March to May 1*^05 (A. S. Meek) ; 

 also from the Solomon Islands. 



Distinguished by the large black cell-spots and pale grouml-idlour : in many 

 cases only the outer line is visible. 



(!•"). Craspedia furfurata sii. nov. 



Forewings : yellowish ochreons, thickly dusted with very fine ochraceous scales ; 

 the lines ochraceous, rather thick ; first line obscure, at one-fourth ; central line 

 oblique, slightly outcurved round the reddish brown cell-spot ; exterior line sub- 

 dentate, double ; submarginal wavy, pale, and rather broad ; margin itself with an 

 ochraceous shade ; fringe silky, concolorous, with a row of minute dark dots at base 

 between the veins ; costa ochraceous. 



Ilindwhigs : simOar, but without first line, and the cell-spot minute. 



Underside glossy, pale ochreons, with the central and onter lines faint. Face 

 and palpi brown ; collar ferrnginons ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 'Hi mm. 



One ? from Simla. 



66. Craspedia ossicolor sp. nov. 



Foreicings : pale boue-coloui-, with a few scattered black scales ; the lines 

 ochraceous ; first at one-third, faint, marked by three black dots in a vertical line ; 

 cell-spot black ; median shade ochraceous, dentate, obliquely curved; outer line fine, 

 subdentate, marked by black dots ; an interrupted ochraceous band on each sicle of 

 the pale submarginal line, the outer one with a few darker scales on hindmargin 

 beyond cell and above anal angle ; marginal dots black, of irregular size ; fringe 

 ochraceous. 



llindwing.-i : the same. 



Underside whitish ; the forewings fuscous-tinged. Face, ])ali)i, and vertex 

 black ; thorax and abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One S from Sierra Leone. 



67. Craspedia pallidilinea sp. nov. 

 Forewings : pale straw-colour, with the lines pale ochraceous, oblique, and 



