( 346 ) 



the second midway between first and anal angle ; no marginal line : fringe wliite 

 above, becoming ocLreons towards anal angle. 



JJinr//n/ii/,s : with the enter line subdenticnlate, farther oft' tirst line above bnt 

 ajiproximating to it on inner margin ; fringe ochrcous ; the sjiots in the tail very 

 small, the onter one hardly visible. 



Underside white. Face and palpi black : all the rest of the body white. 



E.xpanse of wings : 48 mm. 



Three S6 from Larat (H. Kiihn). 



In shape and nenratiou like .lA aculmta Gnen., and might be taken for 

 sont/aicata, Gnen., bnt the slight puckers of the wing membrane below on each side 

 of vein 3 of the forewings are qnite visible, and the hind-tibiae of the 6 are 

 swollen, the median vein is thickened from base to end of cell, vein 3, the second 

 median nervnle, rises at middle, vein ~' from the base of cell, approaching 3 soon 

 after its origin. 



IT. Decetia dichromata ab. fuscibrunnea nov. 



Of si.\ examples of AValker's species taken in Florida, Solomon Islands, January 

 1901, by A. S. Meek, the only ? differs in coloration from all the examples that I 

 have seen. The wings are dull purplish-brown with darker strigulations ; the 

 margins of both deepening into dark smoky brown ; the cell-sj)ots and the obliijue 

 line of forewings are hardly perceptible, but the submargiual line is represented by 

 a series of distinct white lunules in the apical half, and the snbmarginal spots of 

 the hindwiugs are also visible. 



Of the five J J one is of the bright ochraccous form, the others stone grey, two 

 of these representing the form in which the oblique lines and the sj)ot8 of the hind- 

 wings are strongly marked in browu-black {rf. Nov. Zool. VI p. 319), for these 

 three forms of aberration I now projiose the uames ochracea, grisea, and nigroiiiaculatu 

 respectively. 



18. Dirades onusta sp. nov. 



Shape and markings like those of 7>. vr.yiei-tilio, Warr., as far as can be made 

 out from tlie ibrewings, which are wasted ; hindwings brownish, with a darker 

 curved central fascia, with darker dotted edges ; in shape roughly globular, all the 

 three margins lieing rounded ; tlie fold very wide, satiny-wiiite witliin, and con- 

 taining a large oval patch of nearly lihick scales, the tuft of hair from base of wing 

 ochreous and curled and reaching beyond the hindmargiu. 



Underside of hindwings paler than forewings. Face and palpi dark brown ; 

 thorax and abdomen ochreous, dusted with brownish scales. 



Expanse of wings : 25 ram. 



One cJ from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty). 



19. Epiplema inclarata ab. perclarata nov. 

 In typical iiirltiratti Wlk. tlie lower half of fcn-ewiiigs and ujiper half of hind- 

 wings only are white ; in the aberration the white is still farther extended, leaving 

 in the forewings only a costal streak of grey strigae, the subapical grey lunules, 

 and an ochreous and grey central spot ; in the hindwings the usually distinct 

 yellow markings are replaced by a tawny or smoky tawny cloud, the anal angle 

 being broadlv white. 



