598 Colonel C. Svvinlioc on 



Dirades seminigra, Warr., I.e., p. 203 (1897). 

 Epiplcma rliomhifera, Warr., I.e., iv, p. 203 (1897). 



Type, Alu in B. M. 



Type {Icnmccra), Nilgiri Hills in B. ]\I. 

 Type {annulifcr ^ ), Kiriwini, Trobriand Isl., in coll. 

 Rotlischild. 



Type {seminiijra $ ), Cedar Bay in ditto. 



Type (rhomhifera $ ), Oinainisa, Duti-li Timor, in ditto. 



Gathynia cesena, nov. 



(^ . Purplibli-brown tinged with pink ; fore-wings with the upper 

 part darkest, with a discal blackish line outwardly edged with white, 

 curving outwards slightly, and with a slight indentation in its 

 middle; hind-wings with a large white costal patch and a discal line 

 similar to that on the fore-wings, the white i)atch with its lower 

 edge evenly curved except where the line runs through it, where it 

 is slightly toothed down the line ; black dots on outer margin of 

 both wings ; underside fore-wings paler, hind-wings white, no 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings y% inch. 



Hah. PuLO Laut {DolicHy). 

 Gathynia cythera, nov. 



^ . Frons chocolate-brown, top of head white, thorax purple- 

 brown, abdomen pinkish-grey, basal portion brownish ; foi'e-wings 

 pale pinkish-greyish-brown, thickly irrorated with very minute 

 1)lackish-brown atoms, the central half of the wing darkest ; indica- 

 tions of two transverse brown bands rather close together ante and 

 post-medial ; pale pinkish dots on outer margin ; hind-wings with a 

 large wliite costal patch, straight cut at its outer end, the lower part 

 of it with a white streak to the outer margin, the upper two-thirds 

 of the rest of the wings is blackish, the abdominal region whitish 

 tinged with pink ; underside fore-wings pale pinkish-grey ; hind- 

 wings white. 



Expanse of wings ^^^ inch. 



Hah. Fiji, five male examples. 

 Not in B. M. 

 Ejyiplema denujrata, Warr., Nov. Zool., ill. p. 



276 ...... Kiriwini. 



,, <iils('((, Warr., 1. c. . . . Kiriwini. 



„ 2>(irtir<>loi-, Warr., 1. c, p. 277 . . Fergussoji Isl. 



„ sofdida, Warr., 1. c, p. 278 . . Fergus.soii Isl. 



