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Family I'I! .\.\ 1 1 DAK. 

 lo. Stesichora obsolescens sp. uov. 



Forewinyn : pure white, with three or tour lilack costal spots near base, one at 

 apex, aad sometimes one just below it on the hindmargiu. 



J/iiul/ri>i(/.i : with a single black spot in the tail. 



Underside wholly white. 



Paljii and forelei;s fuscous e.\terually; lace very narrow, wlinlly brown, or 

 tinged with white below; vertex, thorax, and abdomen all white. 



Expanse of wings: 50 — 52 mm. 



Three SS. one ?. Two SS from Woodlark Island, 1895; the other S and 

 the ? from Yanarba, Egum Islands, February iSOo (Meek). 



Intermediate between S. nieea Warr. from Kei Toeal, which has the hindwings 

 wholly white, and S. t/ta/iia Kirsch from New Guinea, which has three marginal 

 spots. 



F.oin.v KI'II'I.I'.MIUM:. 

 10. Dirades acutilinea sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull pale purjilisb grey, with darker grey shades in places ; lirst 

 line very indistinct, from costa just before middle, forming au acute angle between 

 veins 4 and 5 beyond the middle and here edged with black, then oblique inwards to 

 inner margin before middle ; outer line from costa at two-thirds, curved below costa, 

 and vertical to vein '?>, then oblique and slightly sinuous inwards to middle of inner 

 margin ; the line itself is formed of ochreons grey scales, edged finely outwards with 

 dark grey, and more strongly and diffusely internally witli i)nrplish grey; submarginal 

 line ochreons grey, from apex to anal angle, irregularly waved, edged externally 

 with purplish and with darker spots on veins; in the intervening space is a 

 horizontal ])urj>lish black blotch below costa, and ou inner margin before anal angle 

 a ferruginous cloud, preceded by a ])nrplish ochreous-edged rounded blotch, the 

 inner edge of which is oblique ; fringe purjilish grey, with a paler basal line. 



Hinilwinqs : with the basal two-thirds chestnut mixed with grey, cand striated 

 with whitish along inner margin ; inner line angled in cell and marked by darker 

 brown blotches ; outer line hardly bent on vein 4, ochreons grey, with thick 

 chocolate inner edge and tine outer grey line ; outer third of wing purjdish grey, 

 browner towards apex and anal angle : a fine dark submarginal line of shallow 

 lunules edged inwardly with i)ale. 



Underside of both wings grey, with sj)arse blackish speckles. Palpi blackish: 

 face and back of crown grey-brown ; vertex white ; thorax and alidomen grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Teuang (Curtis). 



Hindmargiu of forewiugs entire, of hindwings loothed at veins 4 and T. 

 Closely allied to />. semi nigra Wan-, from Queensland. 



17. Dirades columbaris sp. nov. 



Forcicings : dove-coloured grey, without dark irroration ; the lines brown ; first 

 line angled in the middle of the wing, exactly ^s in D. leucocephalnta Wlk. ; the 

 second line similar, but, instead of being evenly rounded beyond the cell, bluntly 



