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forewing ; the underside of forewing is suffused towards costa with yellowish green 

 scales. 



Face and palpi externally green ; thorax and abdomen green ; fillet and 

 antennae white. 



SuisFAMiLY STERRHINAE. 

 33. Emmiltis placida spec. nov. 



Forewing : bonc-colonr, without any speckling ; lines very faint, only the 

 median and outer visible, pale ochreous, parallel to each other; fringe and a 

 narrow marginal border pale ochreous ; cell-spot black and large. 



Ilindwing: like forewing, but the inner line autemedian, preceding cell-spot. 



Underside like upper, but the forewing slightly ochreous-tinged, the costa 

 yellowish. 



Thorax and abdomen bone-colour ; collar ochreous ; verte.\: white ; face and 

 palpi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : <? 20 mm. ; ? 22 mm. 



Both sexes from the north side of C'hoiseul Island, Solomons, December I0i)3 

 (Meek). 



Distingnishcd by the extreme smoothness of the scaling. 



34. Emmiltis plenistigma spec. nov. 



Foreichu/ : bone-colonr, nndusted ; the markings greyish ochreous, all curved 

 parallel to hindmargin ; basal line very fine ; median shade slightly lunulate- 

 dentate, from two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin ; outer line very fine, 

 closely followed by the broad inner snbmarginal shade, which is much more 

 conspicuous than the outer ; fringe bone-colour ; no marginal spots ; cell-spot 

 round, large, coal-black. 



Hindwimj : the same, but without inner line. 



Underside suffused with pale grey to the snbmarginal line ; cell-spots blackish. 



Face and palpi black ; collar brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen bone- 

 colonr. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



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



Easily recognised by the very largo black cell-spots. 



35. Perixera ustipennis spec. no?. 



Fore/ring: dull brick-red; the markings and shading dull black; costa deep 

 bronzy black, somewhat metallic ; first line from one-fourth of costa to one-third 

 of inner margin, cloudy and diffuse ; median shade, equally thick and diffuse, a 

 little beyond middle ; outer line from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner 

 margin, fine, lunnlate-dentate, slightly oblique outwards to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 cell-spot minute, white, in a blackish cloud ; a blackish cloud from lower end of 

 cell between veins 2 and 4 to hindmargin at end of vein 2; an irregular blackish 

 blotch on margin below apex to vein .5, through which, as also through the lower 

 cloud, a waved snbmarginal line is visible ; slight marginal spots between ve'ns ; 

 fringe dark grey, paler in middle. 



Jliniliriiig : with the whole area below vein 4, including the cell and space 



