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Underside as in the type ; forewings dark grey with white inner margins ; 

 hindwiujrs white with slight grey cloud. Thorax and ahdomen wholly white : front 

 of shoulders, face, and jialpi grey with white scales intermixed. 



Two ¥ ¥ from Kulambangra, Solomon Islands, March 1901 (Meek), taken along 

 with four (? (J, one ¥ , of the type form from the same island, and two ¥ ¥ , three J S , 

 all typical, from Florida Island. 



20. Epiplema signifera sp. nov. 



Forewings : white, faintly strigulated with fuscous ; costal edge witli short 

 darker striae; first line at one-fifth, Init represented only by two brown dots,one on each 

 side of the median vein ; outer line at two-thirds, distinct only at costa, and again 

 at inner margin, where it forms a round black-brown blotch ; it is slightly angled on 

 veins 6 and 4 ; a double brown-black submarginal blotch beyond cell, with a small 

 spot above it ; fringe white, cheijuered at base with brown : cell-spot small, 

 ochreous. 



///h(/h-/)/(/s : white, unsjicckled except at apex and in the space between the two 

 folds ; a short dark basal line from fold to fold ; a tawny line along middle of cell 

 met by a darker one along discocellular ; onter line from a dark costal spot, very 

 fine, angled beyond cell, then waved to inner margin, preceded in space between the 

 folds by a large black-brown saddle-shaped blotch ; the upper arm of the outer line 

 is followed by a double oblique lustrous streak ; five dark grey, internally black- 

 edged, submarginal lunules ; fringe ochreous. 



Underside of forewings jiale ochreous grey, of hindwings whitish, with slight 

 striation. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face and palpi black. 



Expanse of wings : cJ, 30 mm. ; ¥,35 mm. 



Five Sd, one ¥, from Florida, Solomon Islands (type); two ¥¥ from 

 Kulambangra, Solomon Islands (Meek). 



A larger and whiter form than the widely-spread conflktaria AV'lk., which 

 occurs in Guadalcanar of typical size and appearance. 



Family QEOMETRIDAE. 

 Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 

 21. Hypographa ? pallida sp. nov. 



Foreirings: greyish stone-colour, with two faint darker grey cross lines ; first 

 at one-third, curved from costa to submedian vein, then vertical ; second from costa 

 shortly before apex to quite two-thirds of inner margin, bent on the submedian, 

 slightly crenulate ; fringe concolorous. 



Ilindwiiifis : whitish-grey, with outer line only. 



Underside like ujiper, but without markings ; fringe of forewings darkening 

 towards apex. Head and thorax like forewings ; abdomen like hindwings ; 

 beneath paler ; the legs interinilly jiiiik tinged; antennae white above, ochraceous 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings : 3;") mm. 



Five ¥ ¥ : four from Koebourne, one from Sherlock River, West Australia ; 

 the Koebourne examj)les are slightly pinkish-tinged, that from Sherlock River has 

 the forewings darker grey than the others. 



1 leave this in Hiipoyrapha , with which it agrees in nenration and in the tumid 



