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edge is fairly straight, tonching in the cell a slender vermiform snow-white streah 

 preceded by a white dot in the band, and followed between vein 2 and the submedian 

 fold by a blackish Innnlar blotch ; outer line from just beyond middle of costa, 

 irregularly creunlate, (ibli(|ue ontwards to vein 6, then curving inwards and becoming 

 obsolete before inner margin, followed on costa by a large triangular velvety black- 

 browu blotch, with three pale dots in it on the costal edge : submarginal line parallel 

 to margin, indicated by, a slightly darker tint following it and forming dark spots 

 beyond cell and on submedian fold : a series of minute dark marginal dots : fringe 

 rufous. 



Himlirings : with slightly paler crenulate postmedian and submarginal lines, 

 the latter with a blackish spot between veins 2 and :! ; fringe darker rufous. 



Underside bright brick-red, more coarsely black sjieckled ; the cell-spots, outer 

 lines, and row of marginal dots black : hindmarginal area of both wings greyer ; 

 inner margin of forewings dark grej'. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, the 

 last tinged on dorsum with reddish. All the tarsi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One ? from British New Guinea. 



Easily distinguished by the dark antemedian band and subapical costal 

 blotch. 



111. Capnodes finipalpis trimaculata subsp. nov. 



In all the examples of ('. /j/ii/ml/iin Wlk. (= maculieosta Wlk.) in the British 

 Museum collection from various localities the basal white spot is a small dot only, 

 and the other two costal spots, present in the form mactdicosta (in the type from 

 fnipaljns there are no costal spots), reach well below the subcostal vein. In the 

 form trimaculata the basal spot is the largest of the three, and none of them reach 

 below the costal vein ; the spots, especially the exterior one, being flattened and 

 lengthened horizontally, instead of vertically as in the typical form. In the 

 hindwings at bottom of the discocellular is a black spot in a pale ring. One 

 example, from St. Aignan's, in the British Museum collection, has the basal spot 

 sliglitly larger than usual, but the other two are of normal shape and size. 



One ? from British New Guinea. 



11. Avitta alternans sp. nov. 



ForririruiH : pale mouse-grey, crossed by three vertical diffuse olive-brown 

 clouds, basal, median, and postmedian, and three fine waved lines of the same 

 tint in the pale intervals, the outer one before the hindmargin curved ; fringe 

 concolorons. 



Hindwmgs : dark fuscous grey, the marginal third deeper in tint, and with a 

 dark obscure cell-spot. 



Underside dull mouse-colour, both wings darker in marginal third and with dark 

 cell-spots, that of the hindwings distinct ; the tuft of hairs below the retinaculum 

 of the ? ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; pectus and inside of 

 palpi paler, somewhat ochreous tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 4ii mm. 



Two ? ? from British New Guinea. 



