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8. Epiplema alabastraria spec. nov. 



Forewings .-chalk-white ; the markings very distinct, purplish grey-brown ; some 

 grey striae at base, a spot at base of cell, and a spot at base of submedian vein : a 

 broad central fascia, formed of grey streaks and edged with brown spots and lines, 

 interrupted below median vein by the white ground-colour, so as to form two large 

 squarish blotches ; a small blotch on costa before apex and another at anal angle 

 represent the outer line ; a marginal blotch of five dark-edged lunules from apex to 

 below middle ; a dark marginal line from apex to vein 3 ; fringe white, with a dark 

 blotch below ajjex and another at middle. 



Hindwings : with a dark line from base, a square spot in cell, and some grey 

 striae ; outer line fine, partly double, roundly ,angled at vein 4, with a curved lunular 

 blotch in submedian interval ; a black blotch on costa before apex ; a fine brown 

 line from upper tooth to above lower tooth, where it curves away into a lustrous 

 patch towards anal angle ; a black and brown spot below lower tooth, which is 

 white intersected by a straight ochreous line ; marginal line interruptedly brown ; 

 fringe white. 



Underside with only the marginal blotches shown ; forewing brownish towards 

 base. Face silvery grey ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen white : collar 

 finely blackish ; abdomen slightly grey-tinged on segments of dorsum. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



Two (?^, one ? from Isabel' Island, June— July 1901 (Meek). 



A very pretty and quite distinct species. The hindmargin of forewings entire, 

 of hindwings with two teeth, at veins 4 and 7. Antennae thick, simply lamellate. 



9. Epiplema sparsipunctata spec. nov. 



Forewings : greyish ochreous, densely covered with fine darker striations ; lines 

 very obscure, but indicated by small blackish spots ; one of these in the cell and 

 another on submedian fold at one-third from base indicate the inner line ; the outer 

 at two-thirds is marked by a spot just below subcostal vein, a second between 



4 and 5, and a third on submedian fold ; two more distinct spots on margin between 



5 and 6, and 6 and 7 ; fringe concolorons. 



Hindwings : with the outer series of spots only, and one marginal, between 

 and 7. 



Underside much paler, pearly grey, with blacker and coarser striae. Face and 

 palpi dark brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, without speckling ; 

 antennae ochreous, the teeth close and clavate. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One (J from Isabel Island, June—July 1901 (Meek). 



10. Epiplema stigmatalis spec. nov. 



(?. Forewings : pale wood-colour, covered with short irregularly waved brown 

 striae ; the costa with darker striae and 2 or 3 brown spots before apex ; the lines 

 very indistinct ; the first, curved, before one-third, marked most plainly by a curved 

 brown streak below subcostal vein, closely followed by an elongated flattened brown 

 cell-mark ; the outer line, starting from a brown-black blotch at two-tliirds of costa, 

 rans outwards and becomes obsolete below 4, ending on inner margin beyond two- 

 thirds in a large brown-black blotch ; a smaller brown-black patch at anal angle ; 



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