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Ilindwings : rnfons grey, tinged with violet-brown along costa and at apex ; a 

 red-brown postmedian line, parallel to hindmargin, marked with dark dots at the 

 veins ; a more indistinct line towards base, and traces of two others between ; a 

 violet-brown undulating shade along margin from npper tooth towards anal angle ; 

 fringe violet-brown. 



Underside of forewings dark grey, dotted with blackish, along costa pale grey ; 

 of hindwings pale grey, with a broad smoky-black snbmarginal fascia. Face and 

 palpi dark chocolate-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish grey. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



One c? from Ron Island, .Inly 1897 (W. Uoherty). 



Forewings with hindmargin slightly toothed at vein 4, concave above, convex 

 below ; hindwings prominently toothed at veins 4 and 7. 



A very distinct species. 



25. Epiplema diversipennis sp. nov. 



Forewings : bluish white, speckled with smoky grey-brown ; the costa at base, 

 a broadish curved fascia beyond middle, and a marginal fascia suffused witli the 

 same colour ; fringe concolorous. 



Iliiidiciiigs : with the base whitish and the apex white ; a postmedian pale line 

 forming a lieak externally on vein 4, preceded by a thick blackish shade, which 

 above vein 4 becomes smoky brown, and followed by a smoky brown shade above 

 vein 4 and a purplish grey one below it ; traces of a fine double dark antemediau 

 line, and another nearer base ; the space below vein 4 marked with yellow scales ; 

 an irregularly waved blackish submarginal line from upper tooth to near anal angle, 

 followed by a brown shade ; fringe brown, white at apex. 



Underside of forewings smoky brown ; of hindwings smoky grey. Head and 

 palpi blackish ; thorax whitish ; abdomen grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Ansus, Jobi Island, April — May 1897 (Doherty). 



26. Epiplema illineata, nom. nov. 



Epiplerna iUiturata Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. 9. 



The name UlitKrota must be altered, as I had already used it for an aberration 

 oi Epiplema angidata. Cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 275. 



27. Monobolodes pallens sp. nov. 



Foreioings : pale grey, thickly speckled with dark grey ; the lines nearly as in 

 the following species, but less diffuse, ferruginous, with darker scales at the veins ; 

 fringe iron-grey, with ferruginous line at base. 



Ilindwings : similar, the line appearing less curved. 



Underside uniform ]>ale grey, with sliglit darker dusting. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen concolorous with wings ; face and ])alpi grey-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



One ? from Woodlark Island, March 1897 (A. S. Meek). 



In both wings the outer line is nearer the hindmargin than in ^f. recti/ascia ; 

 otherwise the markings are almost identical : but they appear to be good and 

 distinct island forms. 



