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41. Epiplema paradeicta ^i'. nov. 



Forewings : white, indefinitely suffused with very pale yellowish ochreons, and 

 with fine yellowish striae ; costa finely dotted with blackish ; beyond the middle are 

 traces of a double yellowish fascia, containing slightly darker striae, the first having 

 on its inner edge a spot of dark brown scales lietween veins 2 and 3, the second with 

 some slight dark scales on inner margin at anal angle ; a minute black suhapical 

 dot between veins 6 and 7 ; fringe white, with yellow basal line. 



Hindwings : with an ochreous patch at base, angulated in middle of wing ; a 

 pale ochreous line from costa before middle to beyond the angle of basal patch ; 

 a postmedian diffuse yellowish shade from costa before apex to below middle of wing, 

 where it is expanded and reaches from the end of the basal patch to hindmargin, 

 containing a deeper 3'ellow patch opposite the cell, and some very fine darker curved 

 strigae on its inner edge ; a black dot before upper tooth, a very minute one above 

 it, and a brown dot before lower tooth ; fringe white, with ochreous basal line, broader 

 lietween the teeth. 



Underside white, the costa at base blackish ; a subcostal ochreous fuscous streak 

 from base to four-fifths, where a similar fascia runs straight to anal angle, its inner edge 

 diffuse, its outer edge concise and straight ; a minute black dot between veins G and 7 ; 

 hindwings white, with the costa and a patch opposite cell ochreous ; the dark dots 

 slightly marked ; fringe of upper tooth blackish. Face brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 white and ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 21 mm. 



One ? from S. Celebes, September 1891 (\V. Doherty). 



The inner margin of forewings is sinuous ; costa of hindwings evenly curved 

 and fringed with hair throughout; the teeth both long, the lower one deflexed. 



42. Gathynia divaricata sp. nov. 



Forevmigs .• pale ochreous, suffused and dusted, except along the submedian 

 ai-ea, with brownish grey and rufous ; the costal region thicklv speckled with grey ; the 

 lines ferruginous ; first from costa at one-fourth, irregularly excurved and bluntly 

 angled on the median vein, thence oblique and straight to inner margin at one-third ; 

 second at three-fourths, stronglj- excurved to below median, then sinuous to inner 

 margin at four-fifths ; a faint ochraceous streak along the cell ; two small black dots 

 or dashes before hindmargin below ajiex ; marginal line fine, dark ; fringe ochreous 

 grey, with a darker dividing line. 



Hindwings: wholly greyish rufous; first line acutely angled in middle, second 

 curved and hardly angled ; four or fi\e black dashes on feiTuginous scales below the 

 tooth. 



Underside pale straw-colour, the forewings much smeared with grey. Face and 

 palpi blackish ; vertex and collar dark grey ; thorax ochreous mixed with grey ; the 

 patagia and abdomen ochreous, the latter marked with grey on back of basal 

 segments. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One cJ from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett). 



Resembles Gathynia fumicosta \\'a.n: from the Khasias, but at once distin- 

 guished by the wholly brown hindwings and their single tooth at vein G. 



