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with a few traces of the markings of the upper surface ; secondaries 

 stramineous grey-speckled, crossed by three discal greyish stripes, 

 the outermost maciilar and with pale outer edge ; blackish mar- 

 ginal dots as above ; body below pale testaceous. Expanse of 

 wings, 56 mm. 



Vavao, Friendly Islands. 



50. Girpa carnea, n. s. 

 Allied to the preceding species, glossy clay-coloured, with a pink 

 tint ; a faintly indicated irregular grey line across the basal fourth 

 of the primaries ; a black dot upon the line just below the sub- 

 median vein ; two white dots at the end of the cell ; an irregularly 

 trisinuated greyish line across the middle of the primaries, 

 continued across the basal third of the secondaries ; two parallel 

 dentate-sinuate grey lines crossing both wings beyond the middle, 

 and followed by a confluent discal feeries of externally white-edged 

 orange spots ; a submarginal series of black dots ; under surface 

 nearly as in the i)receding species. Expanse of wings, 55 mm. 



Vavao. 



The differences both in ground colour and in the 

 details of marking are so great between this and the 

 preceding species that they can hardly be conspecific. 



HOMOPTERID^. 

 HoMOPTEEA, Boisd. 

 51. Ilomoptera cruegeri, n. s. 

 Primaries above purplish brown, crossed by numerous blackish- 

 edged wavy oblique paler lines; external fourth whity brown, 

 crossed near its inner edge by a clay-brown undulated stripe, washed 

 vdth ochreous internally ; a darker nebula in the centre of this 

 area; base whity brown, traversed by a bisinuated dark brown 

 line, and with a costal spot of the same coloiir ; veins on the 

 darker area of the wing slaty grey in certain lights ; two dentate- 

 sinuate stripes immediately succeeding the ordinary discal line 

 also shot with slaty grey ; the two ordinary lines widely separated, 

 irregularly dentated, very slender, black ; a slender undulated 

 black submarginal line ; external margin and fringe wood-brown 

 or brownish testaceous, with darker central stripe bounded by two 

 slender sinuous whitish lines, the outer one indistinct ; secondaries 

 whity brown ; five or six parallel internally diffused dentated dusky 

 stripes with whitish external edges, followed by two slightly sinuous 



