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Underside whitish, suffused iu forewings with dull grey, with fuscons and 

 black transverse striae between the veins. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; face 

 and palpi brown-Iilack. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One ? from Sudest Island, April 1898 (Meek). 



Distinguished by the dull mealy appearance and almost entire absence of 

 lustrous scaling in hindwings. 



28. Monobolodes fuscibrunnea sp. nov. 



? Foreuings : whitish, densely dusted and suffused with purplish fuscous 

 scales in the costal half of wing ; the lower half strongly tinged with brown : lines 

 as in rrrf/y'ascifi and pallfHS ; central area followed by a pale spot on costa ; an 

 indistinct snbmarginal line of dark streaks ; fringe iron-grey, varied below middle, 

 like the wings, with brown. 



Hindwings : grey ; the central fascia and the fringe tinged with brown. 



Underside dark grey. Head and palpi black ; thorax and patagia tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen grey. 



c? with the brown suffusion more prominent ; the whole hindwing being brown 

 with a single central dark brown interrupted line ; fringe dark brown ; underside 

 of hindwings whitish. 



Expanse of wings : c? 24; ? 26 mm. 



Two SS, two ? ?, from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 — 

 February 1899 (A. S. Meek). 



Distinguished by the brown intermixture. 



Family GEOMETRWAE. 



Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 

 Callipotnia gen. nov. 



Fore/rings : with costa nearly straight, curved before apex, which is prominent ; 

 hindmargin faintly sinuous. 



Hinrlwings : with hindmargin well rounded ; anal angle scj^uare. 



Antennae of S finely ciliated ; palpi laterally flattened, curved obliquely 

 upwards in front of face, second joint broad, third blunt ; tongue and frenulum 

 present ; hind-tibiae thickened, with two pairs of spurs, the outer middle spur short. 

 A fovea at base of forewings concealed above by hairs ; hindwings hairy at base 

 and with tufts of hair beneath the median nervnre and along veins 2 and 3. 



Neuration : forewings ; cell half as long as wing ; discocellular straight ; first 

 median nervule at about one-half, second shortly before third ; radials normal ; 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10, stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12, 10 with 11 and again with 8, 9. 



Hindwings : with costa divergent from base ; vein 7 just before end of cell ; 

 medians as in forewings ; radial from the centre of discocellular. 



Type : Callipotnia multicolor sp. nov. 



29. Callipotnia multicolor sp. nov. 

 Forewings : greyish flesh-colour, sufiused with olive, and sparsely sprinkled 

 with dark scales ; costal edge narrowly red, red-brown towards base ; first line 

 indicated by an oblique red-brown costal streak at one-third, and a dot nearer base 



