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mark tliickening downwards, below vein 5 trailing oft' into a double tail of black 

 and white scales running into tlie projection of outer line ; outer line edged by a 

 space of lilac grey scales, broader on costa and inner margin, followed by more 

 distinct blackish striae ; hindmargin from apex to tail narrowly white preceded by 

 a deep black line which curves out above the tail ; below it a white dash, running 

 out and fringing the tail below ; below the base of tail a roundish drop of purplish 

 and dark brown scales, with a shallow lunule nearer anal angle, both finely edged 

 with white and dark scales ; fringe grey, with base darker than the tips. 



Underside dull cinereous, indistinctly striated. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex and base of antennae snow-white ; thorax and 

 abdomen pale grey ; legs paler ; all the tarsi and fore- and midtibiae brownish. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ?. 



In outward appearance this species bears a very marked resemblance to several 

 South American species. 



2. Epiplema inquinata spec. nov. 



Forewinq : white, with exceedingly fine and delicate black dots and striae, and 

 with three curved stains of greyish brown, all very faint and narrow towards costa, 

 but broader along inner margin, emphasised by fine black dots, especially on inner 

 margin ; the first at about one-fourth, the second just beyond middle, the third at 

 five-sixths ; the last two are curved outwards above, and the last ends in a black 

 blotch before anal angle ; a minute spot of black scales beneath apex ; an extremely 

 fine ochreous marginal line ; fringe white. 



Ilinclwinq: with the two outer stains and an additional slight marginal one 

 below middle : a black dot in cell near base and a more minute one below base of 

 lower tooth ; marginal line very fine ; fringe whitish. 



Underside all white. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; tips of jialpi and inside of foretibiae and 

 tarsi alone fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



3 ? ?. 



Allied to E. denigrata Warr. from the Trobriand Islands. 



Hindmargin of forewing entire ; of hindwing with fine tails at veins 4 and 7 ; 

 inner margin of forewing sinuate. 



3. Monobolodes ustimacula spec. nov. 



Forewing : ochreous tinged with fawn-colour, minutely grey-speckled ; costa 

 slightly darker ; an interrnpted black-brown erect shade from inner margin just 

 before middle, not plainly reaching the costa, but apparently curved inwards 

 towards it ; a thick black erect line from three-fourths of inner margin reaching 

 vein 6, followed by first a narrow rust-coloured line and then another blackish one, 

 the anal angle occupied by a purplish black l)loteh ; a submargiual series of small 

 black dots from apex to anal angle ; the marginal stripe darker and ferruginous- 

 tinged ; fringe with a pale shining base, and chequered along the tips with black. 



Hindwing : black-brown, except a narrow ochreous streak from base through 

 cell widening to hindmargin between veins 4 and 6 ; crossed by two i)arallel curved 

 black rusty-edged lines, antemcdian and postmedian ; a row of small black marginal 

 lunnles on a paler ground ; fringe black-brown. 



