(416 ) 



the middle a large cIulhI nf Mack striiie luul traces of a median liue ; sometimes hear 

 base there are traces of a fulvous line ; a buff marginal lint', blackish between the 

 teeth ; fringe white, with the tips buff. 



Underside of forewing brownish grey, except along inner margin ; of hindwing 

 white with a few buff striae along costa ; a dark lunnle before upper tooth and a 

 spot below lower tooth. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white; face white, with the upper third brown- 

 bhuk ; jjaljii black, with the tips of the segments white ; tarsi spotted with 

 fuscous. 



E.xpanse of wings : IT ram. 



4 Jc? from Mt. Wuchi, Hainan, May lOul?. 



Like E. J'lihata Warr., with which it agrees in the forewing. 



1-Ti. Epiplema vacuata spec. nov. 



Vorewiiuj : chalk-white ; costa with a few dark striae : a brown costal spot at 

 base, another at one-sixth, indicating' first line, which is faint, a third just before 

 middle; from this a median butf line is slightly excurved to vein 4, where it is 

 contiguonB internally to a brown linear cell-mark, and ends in a vertical streak at 

 middle of inner margin reaching submedian fold ; a buff spot on costa before apex; 

 a row of small bufl' submarginal spots, sometimes with brown internal edges, the 

 margin beyond them above middle and the marginal line also buff ; fringe white, 

 tinged with buff' above middle, with a large black spot at apex and tipped with dark 

 beyond veins 4 and 6. 



Ilindwing : with a buff s])ot at base of median vein, another on submedian fold 

 before middle, and one on costa before apex ; the marginal area from upper to 

 lower tooth filled with butf, as well as the teeth themselves, the tips of the fringes 

 of which are edged with dark. 



Underside white ; forewing, excejit along inner margin and more narrowly 

 along hindmargin, brown-grey ; fringes white, with dark tips at apex of forewing 

 and beyond veins 4 and of forewing and 4 and 7 of hindwing ; hindwing with two 

 yellow submarginal spots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white : top of face and tips of segments of palj)i 

 black : legs white ; forelegs black-mottled. 



Expanse of wings : S ~2 mm ; ? Ki mm. 



(5 cJcT, 1 ? from north side of Choiseul Island, Solomons, December 19U3 

 (Meek). 



Forewing toothed at apex and vein ; hindwing at veins 4 and T. 



The ?, which is much smaller, has the buff' markings and lines better developed 

 and darker, and a round black cell-spot in both wings ; the face is wholly white, 

 and the palpi, whicli arc shorter and feebler, wholly black. 



)<i. Epiplema vinculata sjiec. nov. 



Foreirhuj : bone-colour, with fine short brown striatinns and some coarse 

 scattered black atoms ; first liue dark brown, strongly marked, close to base, 

 vertical from subcostal to submedian -vein, bent basewards at each end, forming a 

 bracket-shaped mark, the incladeu basal area tinged with greyish brown in lower 

 half; outer line from just beyond middle of costa bent outwards and slightly angled 

 at vein fj and more strongly at vein 4, then inclined inwards and almost obsolete 



