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Hiiuhmiiya : with tlie lines single and sparsel.v distribnted ; a'minnte dark 

 cell-dot. 



Underside with the dark markings plainer ; discal spot double, as in ochracea, 

 with more brown scales intermixed ; hindwings with small cell-dot. Thorax 

 and abdomen pale, like the wings ; shoulders and head brown. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One c? fromMonnt Mada, Barn (3000 ft.), September 1898 (Damas) ; also from 

 Kapanr, New Guinea. 



The species described by me in Nov. Zool. iv. p. 383 as Symphleps atomosalis, 

 had been alreadj' described by Sir G. Hampsou in the Pr. Z. S. 1897, p. 621, as 

 Rhodonnira atomosalis : but Pagenstecher's ochracea, described in 1886, is un- 

 doubtedly the same insect, and his name will stand. 



Family URANITDAE. 

 III. Micronia discata sp. nov. 



Forewinys : white ; the costa marked with fine dark linear strigae ; the wings 

 crossed by row.s of fuscous thickened striae between the veins, which tend to arrange 

 themselves in more or less regular lines ; a fuscous marginal line ; fringe rufous- 

 fuscous with the apices paler ; a distinct fuscous discal spot. 



Hindwings : with the transverse striae fewer and restricted to the inner- 

 marginal area ; the postmedian series elongated between the veins, not transverse ; 

 a submarginal row of fine sti'iae ; marginal line black, ending on each side of the 

 tail in a black spot ; the tail with a large black spot ; fringe rufous, white along 

 upper edge of tail ; discal spot larger. 



Underside white, with a fine dark marginal line ; the hindwings with the dark 

 spot of the tail marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen all white ; legs white, 

 internally fuscous-tinged : palpi minute, dark externally. 



Expanse of wings : c? 22 mm. ; ? 30 — 3.5 mm. 



One d, two ? ?, from Toowoomba, Brisbane District, Queensland. 



In the forewings the costa is strongly arched, the apex prominent, and the 

 hindmargin oblique and straight ; the neuration alike in both sexes. The smaller ? 

 is marked bred, December 31st, 1896 ; probably all three are bred specimens. 



Family EPTPLEMIDAE. 



20. Decetia dichromata Wlk. sxxv. p. 15.58. 

 The variations to which this species is liable are well shown in a series lately 

 received from Sudest and Eossel, islands of the Louisiade Archipelago, where 

 they were collected by A. S. Meek ; of these nineteen, including one ¥ , are from 

 the former, the remainmg seven, all ^ S, from the latter. The ground-colour is 

 generally either ochreous yellow or stone-grey ; and similar variations occur in 

 each colour series. The oblique line may be all but obsolete, or very fine, and then 

 generally bright ferruginous, or thick and deep brown or black. The cell-spot 

 of forewings is sometimes obsolete, at others a grey or black speck or spot, or 

 ocelloid with paler centre. In some cases the apical region of forewings is blackish : 

 the row of white subapical spots is often quite wanting; while the black submarginal 

 spots of the hindwings are sometimes absent, or on the other hand swollen into 



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