r 412 ) 



<i. Epiplema catenigera spec. nov. 



Forewing : lilac-grey, with faintly darker rippling ; costa striated with fiiscons ; 

 lines brown ; first curved liefore oiie-tliird ; second I'roui costa before two-thirds, 

 obliijnely crenulate outwards and angled on vein 4, tlieu interrupted and ending 

 at two-thirds of inner margin as a brown spot; submarginal line of small brown 

 blotches, edged inwardly with darker, from apex to anal angle, those beyond cell 

 obscurely double, those below middle becoming linear; fringe concolorons ; a slight 

 dark jiatch at anal angle. 



/h'l/thriiii/ : without striations except just at apex and towards inner margin : 

 a short brown line near base ; an outer Iient brown line, angled on vein 4, and 

 edged witli oehreous, followed by a fulvous flush, and preceded below middle by 

 a broad brown lunate shade ; a ferruginous line from base along median vein 

 forming an angle with a narrower diseal streak ; a dark brown line of coalescent 

 Innnles along hindmargin from upper tooth to below lower tooth, crossed by a 

 pale dash on veins 3 and 4. 



Underside pale lilac-grey ; tlie hinilwing slightly striated and still paler. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and jnilpi black. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 (S from Bougainville, Solomon Islands, April 1004 CMeek). 



Distinguished from plica fa Snell., to which it is closely allied, by the sub- 

 marginal Hue of spots extending from apex to anal angle. 



7. Epiplema cretistriga spec. nov. 



Like E. plicata Snell. from Celebes and Java., but with all the dark markings 

 finely edged with oehreous. This is particularly noticeable in the hindwiug, where 

 the dark marginal shade, extending from upper tooth to anal angle, and in its 

 upper course peculiarly sinuous, is conspicuously margined with ])ale ; the bright 

 ferruginous streak from base above median vein is edged above along the fold 

 by a line of bright cream-colonr, which forms a spot at the end within the fork 

 formed by the streak and the obli(|ne discal mark. 



The whole of the hindwiug is peculiarly smooth and devoid of sjieekling. 



The abdomen luis a dark ring at base, and in the cf is elongate and ends 

 in a long oehreous anal tuft. 



Expanse of wings : c? is mm. ; ? 22 mm. 



1 (?, 1 ? from the north side of Ohoiseul Island, Solomons, December 19ii3 

 (Meek). 



.'^. Epiplema exsanguis s]iec. nov. 



Forriring: chaik-wliite ; costa with short black striae; three transverse bnff 

 lines ; first at one-fonrtli, bent on median vein, thick and sometimes interrnpted ; 

 second at one-half, double and biangulate, reaching inner margin beyond middle, 

 the inner arm marked by a black spot between veins 1 and 2 ; third interrupted, 

 formed of a patch on costa and at anal angle and a slighter shade before middle of 

 hindmargin, marked above by a black spot above vein (1 and sometimes by another 

 slighter spot below that vein; a marginal line of brownish striae ; fringe jiale, with 

 darker dividing line. 



Hi ml wing : costa with black olilhpie striae as in forewing; tlie three lines as 

 in forewing ; the second wilhont the black spot above inner margin ; the third 



