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Episteira gen. nov. 



Agrees with Steiropkom Wan-. <and S>/nHeurocles nov. gen. in having a keel 

 beneath abdomen in the S, but possessing in addition a folded and scaled semi- 

 erect lobe at base of biudwiugs ; the palpi are four times as long as head, rongh- 

 scaled, the second joint four times the length of third ; legs shorter and stouter, 

 hindtibiae without spurs. In the hindwings the cell is very wide and short, not 

 being ouc-third of wing ; discocellular concave ; costal appro.ximated to subcostal 

 for nearly the whole length of cell, and there joined by a bar ; vein rises from end 

 of subcostal, which is shortly bent towards extremity, vein 7 rising from the bend 

 and running straight to an angle in hindmargiu, vein G reaching hiudmargin at 

 middle ; vein 4 from lower angle of cell, veins 1, 2, 3 all absent. 



Type : Episteira colli goto. sp. nov. 



86. Episteira coUigata sp. nov. 



Forewings ; bright pale green, tinged in parts with deep green, the markings in 

 the main purplish or black ; the pale ground-colour is confined to the basal patch, 

 a narrow sinuous space in the middle, containing the large oblique oval black cell- 

 spot, a submarginal band, and a horizontal ray along veins 3 and 4 ; between the 

 basal area, which has a black spot on the median, and the central pale space are si.x 

 creuulated purplish black partially forked lines, the ground-colour between them 

 being darker green and the outermost one sinuous ; beyond the centre are six sinuous 

 minutely dentate narrower lines ; a submarginal line of dark blotches, and a marginal 

 line of squarish spots ; from the cell-spot a ray of dull violet runs along the lower 

 radial to hindmargin, and a slight violet-tinge is visible along vein •,' ; fringe green. 



Ilindwimjs : fuscous, the cell semitransparent and paler. 



Underside dull cinereous. Head, thorax, and abdomen green ; antennae wholly 

 ochraceous ; pali)i ])ale green, marked above with i'uscous scales. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One S from S. Floras, November 1896, dry season (Everett). 



87. Holorista (?) spectabilis sp. nov. 



Forewi)igi : pale dull olive-green, dusted with darker ; a darker line near base, 

 angnlated on the veins ; a darker spot on costa before middle, from which a double 

 dark line rises, oblique outwards to the median, then inwards, describing a strong 

 angle on the submedian fold towards the basal line ; two double lines beyond the 

 middle, strongly dentate, olive-green below costa, then marked with black along the 

 veuas and touching the autemedian line in the middle ; a partially double sub- 

 marginal line, forming blackish teeth on the veins and green ones between them : a 

 similar marginal line, the black teeth on the veins touching the black marginal 

 spots ; fringe olive-green. 



Hindaimjs : deep pink, with a large oval coal-ljlack blotch occupying the centre 

 of the wing ; the lobe and the hyaline space covered by it very ample, the edge of 

 the lobe thickened, deep red. 



Underside of forewings olive-green suffused with jiinkish, with a black blotcli 

 at base of the three median nervules corresponding to that on the upperside of the 

 hindwings ; hindwings pink. Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green ; legs tinged 

 with puikish. The palpi arc three time.i as long as Lhc head, laterally llattened 



