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accompanied by fine darker striae ; a blackish dot before lower tooth and some 

 bnff shades between the teeth ; fringe white tipped witli dark, the apex of the 

 upper tooth blackish. 



Underside of forewiug snfFiised with pale brownish grey, except along costa 

 and inner margin, the two outer lines rather darker and nearly straight ; hiudwing 

 with a few striae only ; costa of both wings with short black striae ; of forewing 

 blackish at base. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pure white; the tarsi with black joints; 

 forelegs fnscous in front and internally. 



Expanse of wings : 16—17 mm. 



9 ? ? from Mt. Wnchi, Hainan, May 19(l3. 



Nearest to E./nlrHhiea Hmpsn., which has no dark spot above middle of inner 

 margin ; also resembling E. paradeicta Warr., from Celebes, in the forewing. 



The hindmargin of forewing is slightly bent at veins G and 3, straight between ; 

 hindwing with two slender teeth. 



'■'. Epiplema guttata spec. nov. 



Forewinff : mouse-grey, densely covered with fine dark striae; a dark cell-sjmt, 

 and a small spot obliquely below it on submedian fold nearer base ; outer line brown, 

 at two-thirds, bluntly bent outwards on vein 4 and marked by three dark spots, 

 one Ijelow subcostal vein, the second above vein 4, the third on submedian fold ; 

 sometimes the spots are taint, in other cases the line itself is almost obsolete ; a 

 slight brownish marginal cloud from vein T to 4, containing three black spots 

 between veins on its inner edge, the lower one often obsolete ; a fine marginal line ; 

 fringe pale grey. 



Ilimhcinij : with the outer line angled on vein 4, with spots as in forewing ; 

 two dark spots on margin between the teeth. 



Underside paler grey, with the striae fewer, but stronger and blacker. 



Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen grey like wings ; vertex paler. 



Expanse of wings : 24 — 2(1 mm. 



4 c?c?, 4 ? ? from New Georgia, Solomons, March 1904 (Meek). 



In the ¥ the hindmargin of forewing is faintly indented between veins and 4 

 and in the hindwing excised from T to 4, with slight teeth at 4 and 7 ; in the J the 

 excision iu both wings is much less, and the hindmargin at vein 4 of hindwing is 

 rounded. The antennae of the S are clavate serrate. 



In. Epiplema lignicolor spec. nov. 



Foretcing : dull wood-browu, finely speckled with black brown; the costa, 

 especially at base, with short dark streaks; lines obscure, marked by brownish 

 scaling ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, angled on 

 median vein; second from two-thirds of costa, forming a_lilackish subcostal mark, 

 bent outwards beyond cell, and oblique inwards from vein 4, followed on inner 

 margin by an irregular blotch of black bniwu scales ; another blotch at anal angle ; 

 a slight curved brown black line before the excision ; fringe concolorous. 



lUmhciny : more suffused with brown and speckled with darker ; an outer dark 

 brown line bluntly toothed on vein 4 and below it somewhat creuulate ; marginal 

 area filled, especially towards costa, by a dark shade, most intense in the ? , and 

 sometimes with a submarginal line indicated ; a brown sinuous streak from upper 



