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18. Epiplema iuelegans sji. nov. 



ForciciiK/s : (lull lilac-grey, covered with very minute dark duts and 

 striae ; the uosta speckled with lilack ; no lines visible ; some black scales at anal 

 angle and a black spot on inner margin before it, with another above it ; fringe 

 ferrnginous, shining. 



Uindwuujs : with an irregularly waved double ferruginous line from a black 

 spot on costa at two-thirds to anal angle, marked with dark dots on veins below 

 costa ; a waved brown line from ujijier to lower tooth, with a black dcjt before the 

 latter ; fringe ferruginous. 



Underside uniform grey. Face and jjalpi black ; thorax and aljdomen grey, 

 like wings ; vertex greyish white. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One c? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, Juno 1897 (Dv. Roth). 



I'l. Gathynia despecta sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull slaty grey, crossed by blackish strigulae; the lines blackish 

 or dark grey ; first curved, from one-third of costa to one-third of inner margin ; 

 second from near two-thirds of costa to near two-thirds of inner margin, excurved 

 round cell, incurved below middle ; third from three-fourths of costa to anal angle ; 

 all the lines iuterrujrted between veins 4 and (i, and again on snbmedian fold, by dull 

 brown longitudinal streaks without markings; fringe blackish grey, with a pale 

 spot above anal angle. 



Hindwings : with the postmedian line finely dark, angled on vein 4, and edged 

 from costa to vein 4 by a white irregular streak ; some black-edged Innulate marks 

 mixed with whitish scales before hindmargin ; veins 4, 6, and 7 marked with 

 whitish and dark scales ; a pale spot in fringe beyond submedian fold. 



Underside of forewings dull rufous grey, of hindwings dull whitish. Head and 

 antennae dark brown; shoulders brownish grey; thorax and abdomen grey. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



Two (?c? from Coomooboolaroo, Dawson district, Queensland, in Barnard 

 Collection. 



Monobolodes gen. nov. 



Forewings : with costa a little shouldered at base, then straight, becoming 

 convex beyond middle ; apex produced, blunt ; hindmargin obliquely curved ; inner 

 margin sinnons, convex in inner half, concave beyond ; anal angle slightly lobed. 



Hindwings : with costa strongly sinuate, with a very pronounced shoulder at 

 base, without tufts or fringe of hair, truncate at apex ; hindmargin with one 

 prominent tooth at vein 7, more acute in the ? , then sinuous, concave below the 

 tooth, strongly convex towards anal angle. 



Antennae thick, lamellate, in the <S with short curved clavate teeth ; palpi 

 quite short, porrect ; hindtibiae with four si)urs. 



Neuration : forewings, cell not more than one-third of wing, broad ; median 

 vein upcurvcd towards end : first median nervnle at five-sixths, second half-way 

 between first and third ; lower radial from just above ccnitrc of discocellular ; U])per 

 long-stalked with 7; veins ><, !», ID, stalked, U) separating close to base; 11 free. 

 Hindwings with 3, 4, and 0, 7, stalked. 



Type : MoHuboludes subfakata sj). nov. 



