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4 t?c?, 1 ? from Upper Aroii River, British New Guinea, Feliriiary — April 

 1903 (Meek). 



Taken along with 6 SS aiul 7 ? ? of 6'. reeeisa, not one of which bears 

 the slightest trace of metallic scaling. In both sexes this species is smaller than 

 recetsa. 



Family U RAJS' II DAE. 



Subfamily EPIFLEMINAE. 



6. Decetia uniformis spec nov. 



Foreirinq : drab, densely dnsted with leaden-grey speckling ; a dark disco- 

 cellnlar sjiot : in some cases a very faint rnst-colonred obliqne line can be seen, 

 placed as in dichromata, and the course of the subraarginal spots is traced in the 

 same colour ; fringe dark rust-colonr. 



Ilindwiyig : the same. 



Underside equally uniform. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 48 — 52 mm. 



2 (?(?, 3 ? 9 from Treasury Island, Solomons, August 1901 (Meek). 



Decetia dichromata Wlk. in all its localities is subject to great general 

 variation, and the sexes in particular differ from each other ; in the present species 

 the sexes are exactly alike, and there is not the slightest trace of variation in any 

 of the five examples. I must therefore, for the present, consider them to form a 

 separate species. 



7. Epiplema triangulifera spec. nov. 



Forewing : fawn-colour, finely speckled with grey ; the lines dark brown, all 

 three more or less vertical and parallel ; the first obscure at one-third, not marked 

 above subcostal vein ; second at two-thirds, thick ; third submarginal, not reaching 

 costa ; cell-sj)ot brown, linear ; fringe concolorous, mottled with dark beyond veins. 



Ilindwiiig : with outer line bluntly angled at middle, edged externally by a 

 pale line ; a brown line along median vein from base, forming with the brown 

 discal line a distinct brown triangle in midwing ; a dark brown cloud along 

 liindaiargin from ujipcr tooth to below lower tooth, before which it is crossed by 

 a pale line. 



Underside of forewing dull brown, of hindwing ochreous speckled with brown ; 

 the outer line brown and distinct in both wings. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



2 Sd from Guizo Island, Solomons, November 1903 (Meek). I have seen 

 a <? also from Guadalcanar, Solomons. 



Forewing with hindmargin merely indented between veins and 3 ; hindwing 

 with short teeth at veins 4 and 7. 



8. Monobolodes schistacea spec. nov. 



Forewng : deej) slate-colonr ; the lines black, placed exactly as in ilA vigres- 

 cens Warr. from Fergnsson Island, but without any yellow scaling; the outer line 



