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NEW DBEFANULIDAE, TIIYRIBIBAE, EPIPLEMIDAE, 

 VBANIIDAE, AND GE03IETEIDAE. 



FROM THE ORIENTAL AND PALAEARGTIC REGIONS. 



BY W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DBEP.mULTDAE. 



1. Cobanilla continua sp. uov. 



Forew/nffs : brownish ocbreous, sli;;litly speckled with fuscous, the costal edge 

 bright reddish : lower arm of discocellnlar narrowly silvery white, followed by a 

 small deeper ochreons patch ; a double dark-brown oblique line from centre of inner 

 margin into apex, the sjJace between dnll pearly ; apical and marginal areas more 

 or less snffnsed with brown ; fringe deep vinous ; on the hindmargin between veins 1 

 and 4 are three shining white triangular blotches, tinged with rosy brown. 



Ilindwings : with a single antemediau brown line, ditfusely edged exteriorly ; 

 traces of two postmedian angnlated lines ; the apex with a narrow rosy-brown 

 blotch ; discocellnlar with two white spots. 



Underside yellower, more speckled ; forewings with the costal and apical 

 regions, the fringe, and upper part of oblique line, Iwight rosy ; hindwings with the 

 apical fringe only rosy. Face, palpi, pectus, and forelegs bright red ; vertex yellow : 

 shonlders and patagia whitish, pink-tinged ; abdomen like wings, with a brown 

 median band continuing the oblique line of wings. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One J from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (A. 8. Meek). 



Allied to C. unilinca Warr., from Ron Island, the type of which is a ?. In 

 the present cJ the ajie-x of forewing is more prodnced, and the underside different. 



2. Phalacra semiprotrusa sp. nov. 



Forewings : ochreons drab, the ochreons tinge predominating along the costal 

 half ; the lines very indistinct, the only plain ones being those towards the hind- 

 margin, to which they all run parallel ; a grey line from costa at four-fifths to 

 middle of inner margin, followed by a pale fascia outwardly edged by a dark grey 

 crennlated line ; submarginal line pale ochreons, waved, traversing the somewhat 

 darker marginal area ; an interrnpted black marginal line : fringe ocbreous, mottled 

 with brown ; a black cell-spot, and some scattered black scales towards base lielow 

 the median vein ; along the inner margin towards base arc visible the ends of 

 oblique lines. 



Ilim/ii'ings : with traces of fonr straight transverse lines, of which the first, 

 basal, and fonrth, postmedian, are darkest ; marginal area slightly darker, with 

 an indistinct paler submarginal line ; marginal line and fringe as in forewings. 



Underside dull ochreous-grey, with a pinkish tinge ; marginal area and curved 

 postmedian line of both wings purplish fuscous ; fringes paler, chequered with 

 purplish fuscous. Face and palpi deep brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen like 

 wings ; vertex of head and shaft of antennae both jjaler. 



