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to two-thirds of inner margin, where it is followed l»y a lilack-brown mark ; a 

 brownish grey cloud before hiudmargiu from below apex to vein 3, its inner edge 

 lunulate ; some dark streaks at anal angle ; fringe concolorous. 



HiruhviiKj : except at anal angle suffused with brownish ; a small bracket- 

 shaped basal line, a dark brown distinctly pale-edged outer line, forming a blunt 

 beak at vein 4 ; a brown lunulate line from upper tooth to vein 3, swollen from 5 

 to 3 into two blotches containing steel-blue scales, separated by a pale streak ; 

 a broad pale streak from base along median vein below a jiale black-speckled streak, 

 joined by an obIi(iue pale brown-edged streak on discocellular ; above the middle 

 the outer pale line is edged with brown followed by a steel-blue streak ; anal region 

 below vein 4 bone-coloured with some dark scattered scales. 



Underside bone-colour coarsely brown speckled ; forewing entirely and 

 hindwing along hindmargin tinged with dull brown : blackcell-spots in both wings. 



Vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen bone-colour ; basal segment of abdomen 

 with a pair of brown spots ; the dorsum slightly brownish tinged : face and palpi 

 black. 



Expanse of wings : 'M mm. 



2 6"c? from Hariba Island, British New Guinea (Meek). 



Both wings broad and short ; hindmargin of forewing curved, of hindwing 

 with three blunt teeth at 4, 5, (i ; antennae thick, with close curved clavate teeth. 



Family GEOMETlilDAE. 



Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 



1". Alex longipecten spec, no v. 



This species differs from continmta Wlk. and aumntiata Warr., both of which 

 it much resembles, in having the pectinations of the i antennae very much longer. 

 The ground-colour of both wings is brownish fulvous speckled with black, "the 

 costa dotted ochreous and black, and brown-black at base ; the lines both red, 

 the first fine, the second thickened and diffused externally, and stopping short at 

 vein 7 ; in the hindwing the costal area is dee]) yellow, unspeckled ; the sub- 

 marginal shade very faint ; cell-si)ot in the forewing only brown and diffuse. 



Underside of both wings rich fulvous, with black speckling, black cell-spots, 

 and black submarginal shades. 



Abdomen and palpi beneath and the pectus the same rich fulvous ; palpi 

 above, face, and shoulders deeji brownish fulvous ; thorax paler ; abdomen red- 

 brown. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 S from New Georgia, Solomon Islands, March 1904 (Meek). 



I have seen many more examples from different islands of the Solomon 

 group, all agreeing in the S antennae. 



18. Eumelea infulata spec. nov. 



ForcwiiKj : basal half ochreous whilisli, thickly dusted and striated with rusty 

 brown ; this space is limited by a broad vortical baud of deep rosy, aud succeeded 

 by a similar but somewhat narrower band of pale yellow ; marginal area beyond it 

 bright rosy with deeper striae ; a series of yellow marginal luuules between the 



