(414) 



footli to vein ^i, outwardly with a fiiio ochreous edging before the dark iirowii fiiiigc, 

 inwardly witli a tooth on vein o; an indistinct lirown cnrved liasal line. 



Underside dull wood- lirown ; in the forewing sull'nsed with fuseons except 

 along costal and hind margins, and with a Mack lilolch at anal angle ; in the hind- 

 wing paler, with a dark snbraarginal fascia. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen wood-brown ; face and palpi })lack. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — lid mm. 



'■i f^(i,2 5 ? from Bougainville, Solomon Islands, M:\y 1'.mi4 (ilcek). 



Nearest to bicolor Warr., from Ron Island, but of ipiite ditfcrent cidoration. 

 Antennae with lengthened olavate teeth. 



11. Epiplema nigropustulata sjiec nov. 



Fore wi /Iff : chalk-white; costa with a few fine oehreous and blackish streaks ; 

 a black spot near base, and another at middle ; from the latter a crenulated black 

 line, lient on vein ti, runs to median vein, followed by a broad fulvous yellow shade, 

 of which a very faint trace is visible on inner margin; a yellowish snbraarginal 

 shade, narrow at costa, broader below middle, interrupted between ; three black 

 dots before hindmargin, two beyond cell, the other on snbmedian fold ; fringe bnff, 

 whiter towards anal angle, with a large black sjjot at apex. 



Ilhi<hriiiii : with a yellow spot near base above inner margin ; a yellow central 

 baud, with a tine black edge above inner margin, followed beyond cell by a dilfuse 

 fnlvous cloud, which below vein 4 jiasses into an oehreous grey cloud with darker 

 striae ; costa with yellow striae ; two fnlvous black-edged lunules between the 

 teeth, the fidvous colour running out into each tooth, which is tipped with black ; 

 fringe white, with an interrupted butf basal line, and a black dot at the end of each 

 tooth. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white; jialpi and legs white spotted with black ; 

 black spots at base of antennae and top of fiice. 



Underside of forewing except inner margin and fringe dark grey ; of hindwing 

 white ; the black spot at apex of fringe of forewing well marked. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 (? from Obi Major (Waterstradt). 



12. Epiplema umbrimargo spec. nov. 



Vnrewinq : oehreous drab, speckled with brownish fuscous; costa dark 

 s])eckled ; lines interrnpte<l : tirst at about one-third, strongly ontcnrved, but 

 marked mainly by a brown dash below subcostal vein, touching an oblique 

 ferruginous cell-mark, and by an obliqne line inward from snbmedian fold to inner 

 margin ; outer line dilfuse, brown mixed with ferruginous, from a brown costal 

 mark at two-thirds, angled at veins (i and 4 and partially double in middle, then 

 incurved to a brown blotch beyond middle of inner margin ; three brown costal 

 spots before apex ; some brown striae before hindmargin, edged by a perfectly 

 straight line from apex to vein 2 ; fringe concolorons. 



Jliiidiriiiff : rather browner, with an outer line bluntly bent at vein 4, and a 

 brownish shade from upjier to below lower tooth, above which are some lustrous 

 scales. 



Underside oehreous, suffuseil with fuscous grey in forewing, with only a fuscous 

 grey submarginal fascia in hindwing. 



