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NEW UBANIIDAE, EFIPLE3IIDAE, AND GE03IETEIDAE 

 FEOM THE ORIENTAL AND PALAEARCTIC REGIONS. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family URANIIDAE. 

 1. Stesichora puellaria multiguttata subsp. nov. 



This form from Arn is interesting as having the marginal spots in the hindwings 

 still more nnmerons than in the tj'pe form from Timor. There are three large spots 

 at the ends of veins 4, 6, 7, that on vein 4 followed by a small dot in the extreme 

 apex of the tooth, and three smaller ones on veins 2, 3, and 5, while one hindwiug 

 even shows a smaller spot on vein 8 ; the forewings have fonr largish spots on basal 

 half of costa, one in middle, and two towards apex, and the two on hindmargin 

 below apex large, with an additional spot in the right wing on vein 6. On the 

 underside the whole apex of forewing is smoky black. 



One <? from Aru. 



Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 

 2. Epiplema flavistriga sp. nov. 



Foreivinqs : pale greyish ochreons, densely varied with darker ochreons wavy 

 strigae, mixed in parts with black scales ; towards the hindmargin the ground 

 colour is tinged with darker ochreons ; first line at one-fourth, indistinct, indicated 

 by black dots on the veins and folds ; outer line double, pale brownish, waved 

 between the veins, and outwardly curved, from three-fifths of costa to outer third of 

 inner margin ; from above vein 2 to inner margin this line is preceded by a curved 

 velvety black, irregularly triangular blotch, across which veins 1 and 2 and the 

 submediaa fold are marked in pale ; an indistinctly outlined cloudy grey discal spot ; 

 hindmargin more thickly and coarsely black-speckled, but without a distinct limiting 

 line, except between veins 4 and (j, where a thin black crescent edges a chestnut- 

 brown blotch ; anal angle below vein 2 occupied by a dull smoky grey blotch ; 

 fringe ochreons with a grey base. 



Hindwings : whiter, the basal two-tliirds traversed by curved strigae of black 

 scales ; an oblique black dash ou discocellular, with a black spot above it ; outer 

 line slightly flexuous, bluntly angled on vein 4, brown, edged on each side, first by 

 an ochreous, then by a dark brown line ; from the base of the wing to the angle of 

 the line runs, just above the median vein, a broad yellow streak ; below which to 

 the anal angle the inner edge of the outer line swells out into a broad velvety black 

 blotch,! across which veins 2 and 3 are marked in yellow ; on the costa the line 

 is preceded by a large black blotch ; beyond the angle is a pale lustrous streak 

 merging in a chestnut patch before the lower tooth, containing two indistinct black 

 spots, and joined by two dark lunules from the upper tooth ; the apical area of the 

 wing is yellower ochreons. 



Underside pale ochreous, densely mottled with black speckles, which form two 

 more or less complete curved shades towards hindmargin ; forewings more tinged 



