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snbmaririiial liuc marked by black spots ou the veins, those below costa being 

 preceded by wliite scales ; fringe darker than marginal area. 



Hiiidwings : with the dark line single and central, the basal area within it niucii 

 darker than the marginal half : snbmarginal lino less distinct. 



Underside of forowings more nnilbrm greyish brown with the lines indistinct, 

 the obliqne outer line whitish and straight, followed by a dark shade ; a large 

 brown-black apical blotch ; hiudwings paler, with three distinct lines and a dark 

 cell-sjiot. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey. 



Exjianse of wings : 8(1 mm. 



One ? from British New Guinea. 



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? . Fore/r/r/i/s : purplish grey, or brownish fawu-colonr, the lines brown ; first 

 near base curved and slightly iudeuted in cell ; the median curved outwards 

 round cell and thicker below costa, then obliqne to inner margin ; the outer fine, 

 bluntly rounded below costa, then nearly straight; submarginal line represented by 

 blackish duts on veins, those below costa slightly marked with paler internally, 

 2)receded on costa by a darker shade ; costal space between lines pale ; orbicular 

 and veniform stigmata round and pale with ferruginous centres ; fringe darker than 

 ground-colour. 



Ilhuhrhii/s : with brown antemedian and median lines, the latter with pale 

 external edge and slightly indented beyond cell ; submarginal line as in forewings,' 

 but often indistinct ; a dark cell-mark. 



Underside purplish or brownish grey ; the outer lines and stigmata edged with 

 paler ; costal area and apex pale lilac-grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous 

 with wings; all the tarsi with the joints sunw-white. 



In the S the ground-colour is rufous brown, and the two stigmata are edged 

 with pale ochreous-yellow, and with brighter ferruginous centres. 



Expanse of wings : <?, 30 mm. ; ? , 34 mm. 



Seven ? $ , four SS from British New Guinea, Tamata, August — September 

 ISOij. 



The forewings of the S of this species have the inner margin strongly lobed, 

 the submedian vein being strongly and abruptly bent upwards round a slightly 

 contorted area ; and the costa of forewings is subtruncate, with two slight indentations 

 liefore the apex. lu both se.xes the apex is produced and the hindmargin between it 

 and the middle angle decidedly concave. 



