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palpi white below towards base; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen silvery white, the fore tibiae with brown band at extre- 

 mity. Fore wing yellow suffused with fulvous, the costal edge 

 pure white, red-brown towards base; antemedial line fulvous 

 brown, very oblique to median nervnre, then erect and with clearer 

 yellow before it; a minute fulvous brown spot in the cell towards 

 extremity and small discoidal lunule ; a fulvous brown shade 

 beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 ; postmedial line rather 

 diffused fulvous brown, slightly incurved from below costa to 

 vein -j, then excurved and waved to vein 3 where it is retracted to 

 the lower edge of the shade and erect to inner margin ; a series of 

 minute fulvous spots before termen. Hind wing pure white with 

 a faint yellowish tinge on terminal area except towards tornus. 



Hab. Admiralty. Is. (3Ieek), 2 J , 3 § type; Solomon Is., 

 Choiseul I. (Meek), L J. Exp. 32-38 mm. 



"(Lit/) Metasia roseocilialis, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white with a faint brownish 

 tinge, the last with the terminal segments tinged with pink ; palpi 

 red-brown, white below except at tips ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white slightly mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 whitish tinged with pale red-brown, the costa black towards base 

 with some pinkish below it ; an indistinct curved red-brown ante- 

 medial line ; a slight red-brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, pale red-brown, rather oblique to vein 5, bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of cell and 

 slightly excurved to inner margin ; a terminal series of slight pale 

 red-brown striae ; cilia tinged with pink. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with pale red-brown ; a dark brown discoidal bar ; post- 

 medial line dark brown, slightly excurved to discal fold, bent out- 

 wards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of cell 

 and oblique to inner margin near tornus ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown striae; cilia tinged with pink. Underside tinged with pink, 

 the discoidal lunule with white striga in centre, the postmedial 

 line dark brown. 



Hab. Bit. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (JS r eave), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 26 mm. 



(It/) Gonopionea biconicalis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax rufous, the latter with a silvery gloss except on 

 tegulaa ; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous and with dark 

 brown towards extremity, the genital tufts yellowish white ; an- 

 tenna; ringed with black; sides of frons and maxillary palpi dark 

 red-brown ; palpi rufous, white below towards base ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen silvery white, the fore tibiae with 

 brown band at extremity. Fore wing rufous glossed with silvery 

 blue ; a conical yellow antemedial patch from costa to median 

 nervure, its inner edge angled inwards at costa, defined on inner 

 side by the blackish antemedial line which is obliquely excurved to 

 median nervure and incurved just below the cell, defined on outer 

 side by a blackish line except at costa ; a conical yellow postmedial 



