68 EXOTIC MIPBOLEPIBOPTERA. 



Assam, Khasis, in August ; ono specimen. The dorsal cilia of 

 fore\vin;»8 are rubbed and the scale-projections (probably slight) not 

 determinable, but the species is very distinct ; its nearest ally is 

 clielyodes. 



Epermenia ergastica, n. sp. 



5 . 10 mm. Head and thorax light grey. Palpi grey sprinkled 

 with blackish. Abdomen grey. Spines of posterior tibise and tar?.i 

 long. Forowings very narrow, widest near base, thence narrowed 

 to acute apex ; 7 and 8 separate ; pale grey irrorated with dark 

 fuscous ; discal stigmata blackish, remote, second beyond | ; a dark 

 fuscous apical dot, edged anteriorly by a cloudy pale mark preceded 

 by some dark fuscous suffusion : cilia pale grey, round apex irro- 

 rated with dark fuscous, along dorsum from ^ to tornus with four 

 irregular groups of blackish-tipjjed scales. Hindwings grey, paler 

 anteriorly ; cilia light grey. 



New Guinea, Tenimber Is., in July ; one specimen. 



Epermenia xeranta, n. sp, 



5 . 10 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous-grey. Palpi pale 

 greyish-ochreous irrorated with dark grey, apex pale-sprinkled. 

 Abdomen pale greyish sprinkled Avitli dark fuscous. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; 7 and 8 separate ; pale greyish, 

 irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous and blackish, forming fine 

 strignloe along costa ; discal stigmata small, black, rather approxi- 

 mated, second hardly beyond middle; a blotch of dark grey 

 suffusion on costa at | ; a blackish apical dot, edged anteriorly by 

 a slight indistinct whitish mark : cilia pale greyish, round ajiex 

 with two lines of blackish irroration, with a broad triangular 

 projection of blackish-tipped scales from dorsum before middle, a 

 smaller triangular projection before tornus, and some irregular 

 scales before and beyond this. Hindwings grey, paler towards 

 base ; cilia light grey. 



QtJEKNSLAND, Caims, in November (Dodd); two specimens. 



Epermenia ozodes, n. sp. 



S . 12 mm. Head light ochreous-yellowish, crown centrally 

 suffused with grey. Palpi short, dark fuscous, apex of joints pale 

 j'ellowish. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, on seg- 

 ment 2 with a whitish callosity. Spines of posterior tarsi short. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, 

 termen hardly sinuate, very obli(]ue ; 7 and 8 separate ; fuscous, 

 suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous, without defined markings ; 

 thrtic dorsal projections of dark fuscous scales : cilia fuscous 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, forming indistinct linos. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; a brush of scales lying beneath costa before middle ; 

 cilia grey, 



CnYLoN, Maskeliya, in Juno (Pole); one specimen. 



