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strongly dentate and luimlate, interlacing on the veins, and so forming three pale 

 blotches of gronud-colour ; subtenuinal and suhmarginal linus dentate and diffuse, 

 partially confluent along veins, both interrupted between veins 3 and 5 ; a blotched 

 marginal line ; fringe pinkish cream-colour, with brown mottlings beyond veins ; 

 cell-mark irregularly rhomboid, whitish, edged with brown, and connected with the 

 brown costa. 



Ilindwings : similar ; the cell-spot silvery white, the lunules of the median 

 line touching it ; the whole of the anal area below median vein beyond outer line 

 snuff-brown. 



Underside straw-yellow, with all the markings pale purplish. Face, palpi, 

 vertex, and antennae creamy yellow; thorax in front snufi-browu; patagia yellowish 

 dusted with red and brown scales; abdomen pale yellow, with brown dorsal patches: 

 the first two segments almost wholly snuff-brown, like the centre of thorax. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



Two 6 6 from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (A. S. Meek). 



48. Chiysolene miniosa sp. nov. 



Fore wings : bright blood-red, slightly varied with yellow ; a slight yellow line 

 near base, most distinct on inner margin ; a sinuous postmedian much interrupted 

 line ; cell-spot dark brown-red ; costal area duller red ; hindmargin narrowly 

 yellow except at vein 4, where the red touches the margin ; fringe yellow. 



Hindwings : the same, but the lines not indicated ; the cell-spot elongated, 

 oval. 



Underside duller red. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One cJ from Penang, January 1897 (Curtis). 



Also from N. China, in the British Museum Collection. 



49. Craspedia exangulata sp. uov. 



Forewings : bone-colour, the costa and lines greyish ochreous; first line obscure, 

 curved, at one-third; median line from quite two-thirds of costa to middle of inner 

 margin, irregularly denticulate, and with one acute tooth outwards on vein (i ; outer 

 line from costa at four-fifths to three-fourths of inner margin, similaily denticulate, 

 the teeth marked with blackish, especially that on vein ; subterminal and sub- 

 marginal interrupted greyish ochreous lines, the subterminal with acute angle on 

 vein U reaching hindmargin ; fringe bone-colour; marginal and discal spots distinct, 

 black. 



Hindwings : without first line ; cell-spot large. 



Underside greyish tinged ; cell-spots, outer line, and marginal spots distinct. 

 Face and jialpi blackish above, bone-colour below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 bone-colour ; collar rufous. 



Expanse of wings : 18 mm. 



One (J from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (Meek). 



Akin to C. desifa Wlk., but paler, and with broader, shorter wings. 



50. Craspedia nigrocellata sj). nov. 

 Forcwinga : bone-colour, with minute black atoms ; costa and lines dull grey ; 

 first line, from quite one-third of costa to barely one-third of inner margin, marked 



