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Hinihcings : dull reddish browu, without an)- markings ; the abdominal fold 

 silvery white. 



Underside of forewiugs dull red-brown ; the hindwiugs almost wholly overlaid 

 with whitish. Abdomen brown ; head and thorax darker ; antennae blackish brown. 



E.xpanse of wings : 19 mm. 



One S from Sndest Island, April IS'JS (Meek). 



24. Epiplema concinnula sp. nov. 



Forewinf/s : chalk-white, with slight brownish speckles in parts ; the basal 

 area almost pure ; the lines pale brown ; first from nearly one-third of costa to 

 one-third of inner margin, sharply angulated almost in midwing ; second from 

 three-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, sinuous, outcnrved above and 

 more faintly incurved below, the central fascia between the lines more thickly 

 speckled ; a row of five black dots from apex to below middle of hindmargin ; 

 a faint brownish cloud at middle of hindmargin ; marginal line browu ; fringe 

 brownish with white base. 



Hindwings : with an interrupted antemedian dark line and a curved postmedian 

 brown line, the latter preceded by a brownish blotch on inner margin ; two clear 

 black white-edged lunules between the teeth and a white-edged brown spot below 

 lower tooth ; fringe as in forewiugs. 



Underside white, with slight speckling ; forewing, except along inner margin, 

 suffused with pale brownish yellow ; a straight obliijue dark line from middle of 

 costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; hindwings with slight dark mark above anal 

 angle. Head, thorax, abdomen, and antennae white ; forelegs and palpi brown. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



One (? from Woodlark Island, March 1897 (A. S. Meek). 



Hindmargin of forewiugs entire ; inner margin concave in middle ; hindwings 

 with two curved teeth at veins 4 and 7 ; palpi long, the third joint bent downwards, 

 as long as second : antennae thick, with close clavate teeth. 



25. Epiplema pallidistriata sp. nov. 



Foi-t'winqa : dull brownish grey, dotted and dappled with darker, and varied 

 with ochraceous ; the veins all pale finely edged with dark scales, with pale horizontal 

 streaks in the intervals, likewise edged with dark ; costa with oblique black striae 

 with paler interspaces ; first line from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at 

 one-third, pale with blackish outer edge, twice acutely angled outwards, once in 

 cell, and again on snbmedian fold ; outer line from three-fifths of costa to four-fifths 

 of inner margin, strongly outcurved to near hindmargin below middle, then oblique 

 inwards, pale, preceded by an irregular black line and followed by a fuscous one ; 

 below the middle this black line is preceded by a blackish shade widening to the 

 middle of inner margin ; marginal area towards costa grey, with three black costal 

 streaks before apex ; marginal line thick, dark grey, preceded by a dull ferrngiuous 

 band, diminishing in width to anal angle and very irregularly dentated inwardly, 

 ])receded on inner margin by a dark cloud ; fringe fuscous with fine pale basal line 

 and pale apices. 



Ifindwinys : with black waved basal line, followed below the median vein by a 

 mi.xture of pale and dark grey scales, and above the median by an ochraceous-tiuged 

 pale space, which is edged by a thick oblique velvety black streak, followed again 



