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43. Cinglis persalsa ^p. nov. 



Foretcings : reddish iiiwii-colour, thickly sprinkled with coarse hlack scales; 

 an indistinct basal line and median shade, caused by the massing of tliese 

 scales ; the three outer lines more distinct ; the exterior slender, denticulate ; 

 the submarginal formed of dark lunules, the subterminal a lunulate line ; marginal 

 spots black ; fringe concolorons ; cell-spot black. 



Iliiultcings : similar. 



Underside discoloured ochrcous grey, with the lines darker grey. 



Thorax and abdomen like wings ; the shoulders i)aler, like the subcostal streak; 

 vertex, face, and palpi black. 



Expanse of wings : 2.J mm. 



One ? from Roebourue, AVcst Australia. 



The ? has four spurs on the hind-tibiae, bnt veins (i, 7 of hiiidwings on a long 

 stalk. It may be placed in Cinglis for the present. 



44. Craspedia denubilata sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale ochreons or bone-colour, strongly tinged with yellowish; 

 lines brownish ochreous. not black ; first curved, near base ; second, median, thicker 

 and diffuse, oiitcurved round cell ; outer curved as in addictaria, brown throughout, 

 hardly intensified in cell and on the submedian fold ; no darker snbmarginal fascia 

 in either sex, but merely two yellowish shades embracing the paler submarginal 

 line ; cell-spot small, black, with yellowish scales round it ; marginal spots 

 shallow, triangular, or lunulate ; fringe concolorous. 



Iliiii/tritujs : without first line; the cell-spot black, in a deep sinus of the 

 median line ; the rest as in forewings. 



Underside white ; costa of forewings evenly grey ; central shade, outer line, 

 marginal and cell-spots marked ; the two last only in the hindwings. 



Face and palpi dark brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One cJ, one ¥ from Larat (H. Ktihn), February KMil. 



Very near C. subtincta Warr., also from the Tenimber Islands, but diB'creutly 

 coloured both above and below. 



45. Craspedia oppunctata sp. nov. 



Forewings : cream-colour, without sj]eckling : the lines greyish ochreous ; 

 the first curved, near base, most visible toward inner margin ; median line, from 

 below two-thirds of costa, denticulate, outcurved above, incurved below cell to 

 middle of inner margin ; outer line at four-fifths very slender, immediately followed 

 by the snlimarginal, connected with it on vein (i by a small black blotch ; sub- 

 terminal waved, close to margin; distinct marginal black spots ; fringe concolorous; 

 cell-spot black. 



Hindwings : with tliick straight antemcdian shade j)rcccding the black cell- 

 spot ; the three o\iter lines curved and waved, distinct, and at even distances 

 apart. 



Underside paler ; cell-spots black ; outer line of forewings with black 

 vein-dots. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex white ; collar ochraceous ; thorax and abdomen 



