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20. Monobolodes subfalcata'sp. nov. 



?. Forewings: grey, slightly nit'ons-tingcd, strigulated with darker; costal 

 area darker-speckled ; a broad central fuscons brown fascia, its inner edge strongly 

 concave, from two-fifths of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, its outer sinnous, 

 from costa at two-thirds to four-fifths of inner margin, strongly bulged outwards 

 below middle: the fascia with somewhat paler margins; traces of a dark shade 

 beyond it, only distinct at anal angle; fringe concolorous, with broad lilackish 

 base. 



nimhcings: the same; the onter edge of fascia distinct, the inner obscure; the 

 hindmargin with traces of minute teeth at end of veins. 



Underside cinereous, with fine black strigulations; hindwings whitish towards 

 inner margin; face and palpi brown; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen grey. 



(J with ground-colour paler grey, the markings blackish, the margins of the 

 fascia in particular being thick and black. 



Expanse of wings: S 21 mm., ¥ 26 mm. 



A i)air from Dawson district, dated September 9th, 1890, and September 11th, 

 1893, unnamed in Barnard Collection. 



21. Paradirades fulvilunata sp. nov. 



ForewiiKjs : lilac-grey, with darker grey and fuscous transverse strigulations: 

 the costa dotted with fuscous; the lines interrupted, marked by ferruginous scales 

 first a little beyond one-third, curved, starting from a costal spot ; second at 

 two-thirds, irregularly waved, curved outwards between veins 5 and 2, indented 

 beyond cell and on submedian fold: a chestnut-brown triangle on hindmargin from 

 apex to vein 3, edged inwardly and outwardly with l)lackish; fringe grey, with 

 black spots at base, and chequered with dark at apex and between veins 3 and 4. 



Hindwings : similar, with antemediau and postraedian indistinct parallel 

 ferruginous lines, and the hindmargin with denser strigulac. 



Underside grey, without markings; the hindwings somewhat lighter. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen lilac-grey, like the wings. 



Expanse of wings: 16 mm. 



One S from Kajianv, Dutch New Guinea, the low country, December 1896 

 (Doherty). 



Hindwings with slight teeth at veins 4 and 7, otherwise almost straight from 

 7 fo anal angle. 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 

 Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 



22. Oenochroma leucospila sp. nov. 



i. Forewings: pale brownish oclireous, pink-tinged, and sparsely sprinkled 

 with olive-fuscous; first line at one-fourth, olive-fuscous, outcnrved to below median 

 vein, then vertical; cell-spot fuscons and red: an obliijue dull red line, sliglitly 

 curved, from before a]iex to two-thirds of inner margin, paler-edged interMally, 

 fuscous-edged outwardly; fringe dull reddish: median area sligiitly jialer (ban basal 

 and marginal. 



Hindwings : with the oblique line stronger, from tliree-t'ourths of costa to 

 three-fifths of inner margin: cell-spot dark; costal area paler. 



