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NEW HETEEOCERA FROM BRITISH NEW GUINEA. 
By G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER, P.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
EUPTEROTIUAE. 
1. Hypercydas turner! si)ec. no v. 
S . Head, thorax, and abdomen deep orange-red ; terminal segment of 
abdomen slate-gre^' ; both wings red-brown, with a preponderance of red ; an 
ochreous pear-shaped spot at the end of the cell ; a broad, slightly curved, 
oblique postmedian band of darker red ; a subterminal deeply dentate ochreous 
line, from whence to the termen the colour is darker and more solid, the rest 
of the wing being somewhat thinly scaled, so as to give a slight appearance of 
being diaphanous. Secondary exactly like the forewing, but without the cell-spot ; 
the veins in both wings are somewhat ochreous. 
Expanse, 72 mm. 
Hah. Kebea Eange and Mafaln, 600() ft., July and August. 
Type in my collection. 
2. Hypercydas doricrana spec, no v. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright deep orange-red; both wings darkish 
red-brown, with red preponderating. Primary with a broad oblique median baud 
and very broad curved postmedian band of darker ground colour, the latter 
having a scalloped outer edge, adjoining which is a series of broad spear-head 
ochreous marks up to the termen ; a large round ochreous spot at the end of 
the cell ; all the veins distinctly ochreous. Secondary like the primary, but 
without the cell spot. 
Expanse, 72 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, November. 
Type in my collection. 
Epicydas gen. nov. 
Legs densely hairy, tarsi covered with short hairs ; head, thorax, and 
abdomen thickly covered with fine hair. Neuration : primary, with vein 4 from 
the lower angle, veins 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 stalked ; secondary with 4 from the 
lower angle, 5, 6, and 7 stalked. 
Type. Epicydas ovata B-B. 
3. Epicydas ovata spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red ; both wings pale, semitrans- 
pareut, reddish. Trimary with a large ovate white spot at the end of the cell ; 
a whitish scalloped subterminal strijie, the scallops extended into spear-head 
points in the apical area. Secondary like the i)rimary, but without the cell spot. 
Expanse, .58 mm. 
HaM. Ekeikei, May ; Biagi (Mambare River), 
Type in my collection. 
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4. Eupterote styx spec. nov. 
S. Head, thorax, and primary dark umber-brown, the hitter with a very 
obscure trace of three or t'onr darker bauds acniss the centre of the wins ; a 
snbterminal slightly curved, dull ochreons line darkly edged; from here a broad 
dark grey area with a scalloped external margin ; termen dull ochreons brown. 
Secondary paler brown, with three or four obscure darker lines across the median 
area : a pale postmedian line darkly edged, followed by a broad dark grey band 
with a scalloped external margin ; termen dull ochreous brown. 
Expanse, 94 mm. 
IIa6. Mafalu, 6000 ft., August; Biagi. 
Type in my collection. 
Paracydas gen. nov. 
Palpi minute; antennae bipectinate ; wings, primary broad, rapidly ex- 
panding ; costa slightly excavated ; apex rounded, depressed ; termen very slightly 
aud evenly arched. Secondary rather small, with termen strongly rounded. 
Neuration : cell extremely small in both wings, not more than a fifth, with 
veiulets dividing it. Primary vein 4 from the lower angle, 5 from the upper 
angle, 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked, the latter ris,ing suddenly to 11, aud lying beneath 
it, 11 rising abruptly to 13, and lying below, touching it for all its length. 
Secondary with 3 and 4 from the lower angle, o, 6, and 7 stalked. 
Type : Paracydas biagi B-B. 
5. Paracydas biagi spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax deep reddish velvety chocolate-brown: abdomen orange- 
red ; ventral surface brown. Primary deep reddish brown, with the terminal area 
broadly lilac-grey, preceded by a narrow grey line (in some specimens a small 
white spot is at the end of the cell). Secondary somewhat less dark and less 
red than the primary. In fresh specimens the texture is very silky. 
Expanse, 54 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Mambare River (A. S. Meek). 
Type in my collection. 
6. Damata varians spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax dark brownish grey, with a slate-grey patch on the 
collar and jiale ochreous grey patagia. Primary pale ochreous grey, with a large 
dark slate-grey patch from the end of the cell to the termen along vein 3, 
leaving a lougish broad ochreous costal dash from the apex ; an oblique darkish 
brown band from the base of vein 3 basewards ; two obliijuely placed dark 
velvety spots below vein 2, a mauve-grey stripe in the lower jiart of the cell ; 
median and postmedian area brownish. Secondary creamy white, with a dark 
Iniiule at the anal angle. The primary has a mottled aud much variegated 
appearance. 
Expanse, ftO mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July, 0000 ft. 
Type in my collection. 
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Neuroanomala geu. uov. 
<S. Palpi upturned, thickly fringed with hair below; second segment with 
projecting terminal tuft ; third segment nalicd, short, porrect. Neuration : primary 
with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from above the middle of the discocellnlars, 6 
from the npper angle, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 appressed closely on to 12 for a 
short distance. Secondary with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 and 6 from the upper 
angle, 7 from before the eud of the cell, 8 bent down on to the cell for a third ; 
wings, costa nearly straight, depressed directly before the apex, apex rounded ; 
termen slightly produced outwards to vein 5, receding rapidly to the tornus. 
Secondary somewhat truncate : termen slightly angled at veiu 4. 
Type : Neuroanomala variegata B-B. 
7. Neuroanomala variegata spec. nov. 
cj. Head, thorax, and abdomen pinkish ochreous ; thorax finely irrorated 
with green ; patagia edged finely with black. Primary pinkish ochreous, with 
base greenish, finely edged with black, the edging being sharply dentate ; 
termen greenish, broad at the apex, tapering rapidly to vein 5, uniform from 
there to the tornus ; internally edged with a fine interrupted black line, serrate 
in the apical area, waved below and extending basewards half along the inner 
margin ; outside this is a somewhat scalloped white line, a dark, rusty spot at 
the end of the cell. Secondary pinkish ochreous, with a waved fine black edging 
])roduced strongly outwards in a bold curve ; the upjjer j)art of this area is 
whitisli ; outside the black line the apical area is dark brown, tinged with 
greenish, with a greenish patch towards the tornus, extending slightly over the 
line internally. 
Expanse, 50 mm. 
Hah. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
Omestia gen. nov. 
Palpi fringed with hairs, upturned, third segment small ; antennae bi- 
pectinate for two-thirds, set in a socket fringed with long hairs, almost meeting 
in a tuft in front ; legs hairy, mid pair with one pair, hind pair with two pairs 
of spurs ; thorax with patagia expanded into prominent tufts ; a slight meta- 
thoracic central tuft ; abdomen with lateral tufts on the two proximal segments 
and one dorsal tuft. Neuratiou : with vein 3 from before the angle, 4 from the 
angle, 8 from just above the middle of the discocellnlar, 0, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 
7 and 10 from the end of the ariole, 8 and 9 on a long stalk near the apex, 11 
long depressed towards the ariole. Secondary 3 from before the angle, 4 from 
the angle, 5 from above the middle of the discocellnlar, G and 7 from the upper 
angle ; wings, primary triangular, with costa nearly straight, depressed directly 
in front of apex, which is acute ; termen slightly arched in the radial area. 
Secondary broadish, with a slight angle on the termen about vein 3. 
Type : Omestia bella B-B. 
8. Omestia bella spec. nov. 
(f. Head pinkish brown, with a white bar in fnmt of collar and white tuft; 
collar and thorax pale chestnut-brown, tufts darker at extremities ; abdomen 
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paler, with creamy lateral tufts aud a dark red dorsal tuft. Primary pale fawn- 
lirown, with a mediau curved silvery stripe from vein 2, receding basewards, and 
contiuued obliquely to the costa iu a paler stripe of ground colour ; a paler 
postmedian stripe, broken at vein 3, and more so below vein 2 ; a subtermiual 
pale strii)e, broken at each vein, with a dark external edging, a very oblique 
dark line of shading from the postmedian line at the costa into the silvery 
stripe ; cell darkly pointed on each of its margins ; reuiform palely edged ; a 
double series of dark points between the postmedian and subterminal stripes ; 
costa dark reddish, broadly purplish grey between the end of the cell and the 
ajiex ; inner margin reddish from the base to the silvery stripe, a silvery white 
triangidar spot outside that stripe ; fringe dark reddish. Secondary pinkish 
ochreous at the base, with dark reddish fringe. 
Expanse, 43 mm. 
Ilab. Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
0. Omichlis lineata spec nov. 
cJ. Head and thorax pale ashy grey tinged with brownish ; abdomen brownish. 
Primary pale ochreous ashy grey, with the lower margin of the cell and vein 4 
narrowly reddish brown ; an angled interrupted brown basal line, a trace of an 
interrupted mediau line, an indefinite roughly angled jiostmedian line followed 
by a roughly parallel row of fine dark dots ; subterminal line scalloped and 
interrupted at the veins, two dark dots in the cell ; reniform ochreous. Secondary 
jjinkish brown, paler at the tornus, with a trace of a short twin dash. 
Expanse, 44 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
Allied to 0. ochracea B-B. 
lu. Omichlis transversa spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax cinnamon-brown, abdomen brownish. Primary cinnamon- 
brown, with a trace of a fine interrnpted angled basal line, a very obscure erect 
interrupted median line, a broad dark straight oblique postmedian line palely edged 
externally, followed by a slightly curved row of fine dots ; subterminal line scalloped, 
interrupted at the veins ; reniform edged by an ochreous line. Secondary pale 
cinnamon-brown, paler at the base. 
Expanse, 51 mm. 
Hub. Dinawa, May to June. 
Type in my collection. 
11. Omichlis trilineata spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax mauve-grey ; collar darkly edged ; abdomen pale chocolate- 
l)rown. Primary jjale reddish grey, tinged with mauve ; lower margin of cell and 
vein 4 outlined with reddish brown ; a twin red-brown basal line to vein la ; a twin 
median line broadly separated, straight, slightly oblique ; a broad oblique red-brown 
jiosfmedian line; a broad curved oblique subterminal line preceded internally by 
a line line nearly jianillel to it ; the scalloped line near the termen is straight from 
the costa to vein 4, aud only interrupted at the veins below this ; it is finely edged 
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externally with svUitc ; reuil'oriu ocUrcjous. HecoiiJary uuit'oriu reJdisli browU, 
paler at the tornus, with a short twin dash. 
Expanse, 44 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
12. Omichlis plagata spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax pale ochreons grey ; abdomen pale chocolate-brown. 
Primary pale ochreons grey, with an obscure trace of a basal, median, and post- 
median line; subterminal interrupted, scalloped line fine; a broad inner marginal 
chocolate-brown patch from the base below the cell extended up to vein 2 in an 
oval spot at its termination, and divided in the middle by a fine curved creamy line; 
reniform marked by a large round chocolate-brown spot. Secondary uniform pale 
pinkish brown. 
Expanse, 49 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection. 
13. Omichlis strigata spec. nov. 
cJ. Head and thorax cinnamon-brown ; abdomen pale greyish brown. 
Primary pale pinkish brown, with dark stripes palely edged externally; a short 
basal stripe between the cell and vein la ; a median and postmedian oblique stripe ; 
subterminal line somewhat broken, especially as it nears the tornus ; cell closed by 
a tawny reniform ; the whole wing is irrorated in parts very finely. Secondary 
uniform dull pinkish brown. 
Expanse, 44 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Mambare River (A. S. Meek). 
Type in my collection. 
CYMATOPHORIDAE 
Habrona gen. nov. 
Palpi short, first two segments heavily scaled, porrect ; third segment smoothly 
scaled, depressed slightly ; antennae in male shortly bipectinate, and with cilia 
to nearly the end ; legs, femora heavily haired; tibiae and tarsi roughly scaled; 
mid tibiae with one pair, hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs ; thorax very heavily 
scaled ; patagia almost tufted ; metathorax with two large tufts. Nenration : 
primary vein 2 from centre of cell, 3 from before the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 
from below the centre of the discocellulars, 6 from the upper angle, 7 and 8 stalked 
from the end of the ariole, anastomosing with 9 and 10 to form the ariole. 
Secondary 2 from before the middle of the cell, 3 from before the angle, 4 from the 
angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 7 near the middle of the 
cell, 8 bent down and nearly touching 7, then rising again to the apex. 
Type : Habrona albopla<jata B-B. 
14. Habrona alboplagata spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax grizzled pale chestnut-brown ; abdomen ochreons grey. 
Primary russet-brown, with a white outwardly produced, somewhat scalloped and 
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irregnlar basal line, pxpaiifling into a spot, on the npper margin of the cell, a trace 
of two dark median wavy lines followed by a strongly prodneed (ontwards) post- 
median dark line, beyond which are two fine, very obscure, dark wavy lines rising in 
a small whitish costal patch, a large white patch at the apex and another at the 
tornus, with three white spots between them, and three white dots on the costa 
before the apex ; termen with fine white spots ; two white dots mark the reniform. 
Secondary shiny greyish, more ochreons at the base. 
? . Exactly like the male. 
Expanse, 50 to 55 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, Ekeikei, March and April, also July .and August. 
Type in my collection. 
15. Habrona brunnea spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax dark sepia-brown ; abdomen pale ochreons grey. Primary 
rich sepia-brown, with a pale chestnut basal line strongly angled in the fold, a trace 
of a very short similar line at the extreme base, a trace of twin dark median lines 
somewhat angled outwardly, a series of four finely waved outwardly angled 
postmedian lines, a paler brown wedge-shaped apical patch ; a pale chestnut or 
creamy patch at the tornus, intersected with a tridentate short dash ; termen with 
paler interuervular dashes darkly edged, two dark spots in the cells. Secondary 
ochreous grey, pale at the base. 
? . Lilve the male, but the lines and marks are whiter. 
Expanse, 50 to 54 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, Dinawa, and most of the other localities, March to August. 
Type in my collection. 
16. Thyatira dinawa B-B. {Nov. Zool. vol. xi. p. 381). 
This is a Eisoba, and will therefore be Risoba dinawa B-B. 
Thyatira ekeikei B-B. (iVo». Zool. vol. xi. p. 38:.') also belongs to the genus 
Risoha.. 
SYNTOMIDAE. 
17. Hyalaethea sublutea spec. nov. 
c?. Frons, head, and thorax black; patagia orange-yellow; abdomen black, 
with broad orange-yellow segmental divisions; forelegs with long orange-yellow 
fringes to the femora. Primary black, with a small ovate hyaline patch below 
vein 1, a large elongate hyaline patch occupying the whole area below the cell and 
vein ~!, a subovate patch below vein 3, a semiovate patch below vein 4, and a 
somewhat broader patch above it ; a long oblong patch below vein 7, and a 
semiovate patch above it ; cell entirely hyaline. Secondary orange-yellow, with 
black apex and costa. 
? . Like the male, but brown and yellow instead of black and orange. 
Expanse, 37 to 38 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
IS. Enchi'omia epa spec. nov. 
S. Frons whitish ; head metallic green ; tegulae anil shoulders cream colour ; 
patagia and thorax black, shot with metallic green ; abdomen first segment cream- 
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colour, other segmeuts mehiliic ereamj- colour, witli a Ijlack inner edging, the black 
being broader towards the anal extremitj' ; terminal segment black, ventral surface 
creamy, with fine black segmental edgings, broad on the two terminal segments. 
Primar}' with a small hyaline spot at base of cell, two in the middle, the lower spot 
twice as largo as the njjper, a green metallic crescent at end of cell, two ovate 
hyaline spots between veins 3 and 5, a subovatc spot between veins and T, and 
a narrow hyaline dash below it. Secondary a milky elongate spot at base of cell, 
two narrow short spots below it, a discal hyaline band beyond the cell ; cell closed 
with a metallic blue crescent. 
Expanse, 48 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
Nearest E. aenmUna Btl. 
10. Euchromia ekeikei spec. nov. 
(?. Frons black, edged laterally and below with whitish ; head, tegulae, 
shoulders and patagia rich metallic bluish green ; thorax black ; first abdominal 
segment creamy, next two segments black, broadly banded with rich metallic 
blnish green, rest of segments velvety black, shot with blue here and there ; four 
middle segments bright crimson on the ventral surface, and the connecting edges 
of the corresponding segments above are tlie same colour. Primary basal area rich 
metallic bluish green ; cell closed by a similar metallic spot, an elongate hyaline spot 
in base of cell, two large median spots, the lower very large and rather irregular, 
two elongate spots between veins 3 and 5, one elongate spot between veins G and 7. 
Secondary three large hyaline wedge-shaped spots separated by the veins ; a hyaline 
band beyond the cell, composed of four spots ; a metallic bluish-green spot at end 
of cell. 
Expanse, .54 mm. 
Huh. Ekeikei, March and April ; Mafalu, August. 
Type in my collection. 
20. Euclaromia pratti spec. nov. 
(?. Frons blackish ; head and tegulae very pale metallic greenish ; shoulders 
creamy ; patagia and centre of thorax metallic greenish ; first abdominal segment 
ochreons, next two segments black, broadly banded with very pale greenish 
metallic ochreons ; next two or three segments black, edged with bright crimson ; 
ventral surface banded with crimson on the three or four central segments. 
Primary deep black, a small hyaline basal spot in the cell, two large median 
spots, the lower twice the size of the upper, two elongate spots between veins 
3 and 5, an elongate spot between veins and 7, and a narrow short dash 
below it. Cell closed with a metallic blue crescent. Secondary with an elongate 
milky spot in the cell, and one or two small hyaline spots below it (these 
spots vary : in some specimens there are no sj)ots, in others one or two) ; a 
broadish hyaline band beyond the cell ; cell closed with a metallic blue spot. 
? Witli tegulae creamy, and more crimson on the abdomen. 
Expanse, 51 mm. 
Hub. Ekeikei, March and Aj)ril. 
Type in my collection. 
Near to E. iriu Boisd. 
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PSYCHIDAE. 
Claniades gen. nov. 
(J. Antennae bipectinate to tips ; legs very heavily fringed with hair ; tarsi 
bare, short ; wings broad. Nenration with veins 4 and 5 stalked, G from well 
above the middle of the discocellnlars, 7 from the njipor angle, S and stalked, 
10 from before the angle. Secondary with vein 7 from the cell free, with no 
branch, 8 with no branches to the costa. 
Type : Claniades ekeikei B-B. 
21. Claniades ekeikei spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax very hairy, rough Imt silky brown ; abdomen greyer ; 
both wings uniform pale goldeuish brown, without any hyaline patches. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March and April, 
Type in my collection. 
LIMACODIDAE. 
Mambara gen. nov. 
Palpi of moderate length, porrect, thickly scaled ; antennae bipectinate for 
two-thirds ; wings, primary broad, short, triangular ; secondary truncate. 
Neuration : primary, vein 2 curved evenly downwards to termen, 3 from before 
the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 from just above the 
middle of the discocellnlars, 7 from the upper angle, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 11 
rising suddenly to 12, and lying directly beneath it most of its length, a veiulet 
from the middle of the discocellnlars bisecting the cell ; secondary, with vein 
3 from before the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from just above the angle, 
6 and 7 stalked, a veinlet from the discocellnlars bisecting the cell. 
Type : Mambara inconspicua B-B. 
22. Mambara inconspicua spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, abdomen, and primary pale ])inkish ochreous brown. 
Primary with an obscure trace of a dark median and postmedian line, the 
latter slightly escurved. Secondary uniform pale ])inkish ochreous. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Mambarfi River. 
Type in my collection. 
23. Chalcocelis rubra spec. nov. 
S ■ Head and thorax rich crimson-brown ; abdomen slightly paler. Primary 
crimson-brown, with a large dark velvety patch occupying the median and 
postmedian areas into the tornus, with a similar, somewhat wedge-shaped patch 
at the end of the cell, separated from each other by a broad dash of the paler 
ground colour. Secondary uniform pinkish brown, 
Expanse, 33 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, June. 
Type in my collection. 
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Squamosa gen. nov. 
cJ. Palpi short, porrect, thickly scaled ; antennae bipectinate i'or about- 
half the length ; wings, primary moderately broad ; costa nearly straight for 
four-fifths, somewhat depressed to apex ; termen slightly excnrved ; secondary 
smallish termen evenly curved. Neuratiou : primary with vein 4 from the angle, 
5 from directly above the angle, G from the middle of the discocellulars, 7, 8, 
and 9 stalked, 10 and 11 from the cell, cell with anastomosing veinlets bisecting 
it ; secondary with vein 4 from the angle, 5 from directly above the angle, 
6 and 7 from the upper angle. 
Type : Squamosa ferrxginea B-B. 
24. Squamosa ferruginea spec. nov. 
cJ. Head and thorax ferruginous ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, with a central 
rusty red dorsal line. Primary rusty reddish for three-quarters of the wing, 
terminating in an incurved edge ; terminal area paler rusty orange, a white spot 
closing the cell. Secondary pale orange, with a deep red spot. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
LASIOCAMPIDAE. 
25. Metanastria hades spec. nov. 
(?. Head and collar grizzly; thorax dark orange-brown ; abdomen dark brown, 
banded with tawny. Primary dark greyish brown, with a dark obscure nearly 
erect slightly curved median line, postmedian line oblique slightly excnrved; area 
beyond this line paler; a subterminal row of dark internervular spots; a small 
whitish spot in the cell ; wing sparingly irrorated with ochreous grey. Secondary 
uniform greyish brown, tawny at the base. 
Expanse, 71 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
26. Metanastria babooni spec. nov. 
S. Head and collar greyish ; thorax reddish chocolate ; abdomen black, barred 
with tawny. Primary reddish chocolate, with a pale grey irregular antemedian 
line, a broad median band of pale greyish, and a broad irregular similar post- 
median band, followed by a fine greyish snbcreuulate line, a small white spot 
in the cell, a subterminal row of grey spots pupilled with black ; terminal area 
with some greyish irroration. Secondary reddish chocolate, with a broad pale 
medium band darkly edged on each side. 
Expanse, 71 mm. 
Hab. Babooni, July. 
Type in my collection. 
27. Metanastria mafala spec nov. 
?. Head, collar, and centre of thorax pale chestnut-brown, patagia with 
ochreous hairs ; abdomen pale tawny brown. Primary pale tawny brown mixed 
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with ochreous, an antemedian pale baud darkl}* edged, a cream}' spot in the 
cell, a postmedian very obliqne dark line edged with ochreons, followed by a 
second similar line snbcreunlate below vein 7, an irregular row of large dnrlc 
chestnut snbterminal internervnlar spots edged with ochreons. Secondary pale 
tawny, paler towards the base, with a straight obliipie median Hue. and a wavy 
postmedian line ; fringes pale ochreous grey. 
Expanse, 80 mm. 
Hah. Mafalu, GOOi) ft., August. 
Type iu my collection. 
Pararguda gen. nov. 
Palpi longisb, thickly scaled, porrect ; end segment depressed ; antennae 
bipectinate to tip ; legs hairy, mid and hind pair heavily fringed ; wings, 
primary snbtriangnlar, broadi.sh ; costa evenly arched ; apex depressed ; termen 
erect. Secondary with costa and apex excised. Neuration : primary with 
vein 4 from the lower angle, 5 from just above, 6 and 7 stalked, rising with 8 
from the npper angle, 9 and 10 stalked, 11 rising rapidly to 12, and lying 
appressed to 12 for the rest of its length; secondary with veins 4 and 5 stalked, 
7 free from the base, 8 not depressed towards 7, no accessory veinlets from 8. 
Cells short in both wings. 
Type : Pararguda riifa B-B. 
28. Pararguda rufa spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown. Primary uniform bright 
reddish brown, with a dark obli(|ue antemedian line and a similar more obIi(jue 
postmedian line, a dark dot in the cell, a trace of an irregular snbterminal 
dark greyish line ; termen slightly scaled with grey. Secondary uniform dark 
red brown, with a trace of a median line. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Hah. Kebea Kange, 6000 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
29. Pararguda pallens spec. nov. 
cJ. Head and thorax pale ochreous grey; abdomen rather darker. Primary pale 
ochreons grey, with a dark oblique antemedian line and a very obliqne postmedian 
line, sharply angled below the costa ; a trace of a spotted snbterminal line ; termen 
and inner marginal edge finely dark ; a dark dot in the cell. Secondary jiale 
ochreous grey at the base, becoming tawny grey beyond tlie cell. 
Expanse, 43 ram. 
Hah. Kebea Range, OuOO ft., July. 
Type iu my collection. 
LTMANTRIIDAE. 
30. Caviria owgarra spec. nov. 
S. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale straw colour; antennae black ; forelegs 
black; mid and hiudlegs pale straw colour, with blackish tarsi. Primary pure 
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shiniug white, sli{,'litly tinged witJi pale straw-colonr at the extreme base ; 
eecondary j)iire white ; neither of the wings diaphanous at all. 
Exjianse, 32 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
31. Porthesia biagi spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax white ; metathorax tinged with orange ; abdomen orange. 
Primary white, with a very slight suffusion of very fine pale orange irroration, 
through which a broad median and postmedian line shows somewhat distinctly, the 
latter receding base wards below vein 4 ; inner margin more prominently suffused 
with orange. Secondary white, orange-yellow along the inner margin and up to 
the cell. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Ilab. Biagi, Dinawa, and other localities. 
Type in my collection. 
32. Portliesia pallens spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale whitish ochreous; both wings pale straw 
colour. Primary witli a pale median line, and also a pale postmedian line receding 
basewards about vein 4 ; the internervular spaces are filled in with deeper 
straw colour. 
Exjjanse, 35 mm. 
Bah. Aroa River. 
Type in my collection. 
33. Porthesia radiata spec. nov. 
? . Head, thorax, and abdomen lemon-yellow. Primary lemon-yellow, with a 
trace of au oblique pale median line, and a more distinct pale oblique postmedian 
line; the internervular spaces broadly filled in with orange. Secondary pale 
lemon-yellow. 
Expanse, 50 mm. 
Hab. Babooni, Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is very similar to Eiiproctis titanea Druce, of which we have a 
fair series ; Imt it is a Porthesia. 
34. Porthesia squamosa sjioc. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-brown. Primary pale straw colour, 
with a deep orange fnlvous patch, a third from the base of the inner margin, 
internervular spaces tilled in with pale orange. Secondary pale straw colour ; 
basal and median area deeper yellow. 
? . Paler than the male ; internervular spaces of primary roughly irrorated 
with darker scales. 
E.xpanse : (? 39 ; ? 49 mm. 
Hab. Keliea Range, OUOO ft., March and April ; Avola, August, 6000 ft. 
Types in my collection. 
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35. Porthesia lutearia spec. uov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale orange. Primary uniform orange colour, 
with deep orange along the inner luargin. Tlie wing snrface is rongh in textnre. 
Secondary chrome-yellow. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Ilab. Ekeikei, Jannary and February. 
Type in my collection. 
Porthmeia gen. nov. 
Palpi minute, porrect ; antennae bipectinate in both sexes, with cilia (in male) 
to branches ; pectinations wide apart, especially so in the male ; legs with a 
few long bristles ; tarsi nearly bare ; wings, primary snbovate ; costa slightly 
and evenly arched ; termeu more strongly arched near the apex, gradually receding 
to the tornns ; secondary small. Neuratiou : vein 2 from the middle of the cell, 
3 from before the lower angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from above the angle, from 
the npper angle, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 7 from midway between the cell and 
vein 10 ; secondary, veins 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 absent, and 7 on a 
long stalk from the upper angle, 8 bent down to 7 and shortly anastomosing. 
Type : Porthmeia siibnigra B-B. 
36. Porthmeia subnigra spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; patagia and collar tipped with orange. 
Primary orange, with the basal third and the apical third having the internervular 
spaces filled in with black, leaving an oblique broad orange band across the median 
area. Secondary uniform deep black. 
? . Like the male in all respects, but with a white anal tnft. 
Expanse : (J 34 ; ? 42 mm. 
Hub. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
37. Porthmeia bicolora spec. nov. 
S. Head, collar, and patagia ochraccous ; thorax and abdomen black. Primary 
uniform ochreous, with the outer half of costa and the termen finely black. 
Secondary deep black, with a terminal line of orange ; fringes black. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
38. Euproctis stramenta spec. nov. 
cf. Head and thorax straw colour ; abdomen whitish, with the anal extremity 
bright chestnut ; both wings pale straw colour without any markings. 
¥ . Like the male, except that the anal segment is not chestnut colour. 
Expanse : c? 29 ; ? 39 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Types in my collection. 
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39. Euproctis luteomarginata spec. nov. 
?. Head, collar, and patagia pure white ; rest of thorax and abdomen briglit 
orange. Primary pnre white, with basal two-thirds of inner margin finely bright 
orange ; a trace (if a median and postmedian waved orange line confluent on tlio 
inner margin. Secondary white, with the inner margin orange into the cell. 
Expanse, 43 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
T3'pe in my collection. 
I have one specimen which is straw colonr, and tlie waved lines of the primary 
are distinct. 
40. Euproctis lunula spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax dirty straw colonr ; abdomen orange. Primary cream 
colour, with a trace of au erect median line and a yellowish postmedian line 
receding basewards below vein 5 ; a deep chocolate Innnle at the end of the cell. 
Secondary cream colonr, orange for the basal two-thirds. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra ; Biagi, 5000 ft. 
Type in my collection. 
The colonr and pattern rapidly fade and become almost white. 
Euproctis cHnazva B-B. The ? of this species is not pale as described 
{Nov. Zool. vol. xi. p. 39), but is exactly like the male; more material shows 
that my supposed female belongs to another species. 
Euproctis novaguinensis B-B. I have received a male of this species since 
my paper {I.e.) was written, which is exactly like the ? , with the exception that 
the dark area of the secondaries is slightly larger. 
41. Euproctis pulchra spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and first abdominal segment pinkish buff; abdomen black, 
anal segment whitish. Primary; pinkish bnflf', with the veins showing yellowish ; 
the internervnlar spaces broadly filled in with red in the terminal area. Secondary 
chrome-yellow, with the inner margin black into the cell and up to the base. 
Expanse, .58 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 3G00 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
42. Euproctis griseata spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax pale grizzly brown ; abdomen black, with whitish anal 
segment. Primary pale grizzly brown, without any marks except a trace of a pale 
Innnle at the end of the cell. The wing has a rough scaly texture. Secondary 
chrome-yellow, with the basal half deep black, terminating in a curve in the 
tormus. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 3600 ft., Jnly. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is near E. egregia Swinhoe, 
( 188 ) 
^3. Euproctis coniochroa spec, no v. 
?. Head aud thorax dirty grey; iilnlonioti darker; both wings dirty grey; 
the secondaries rather darker than thi' primaries ; no pattern on either wing. 
Expanse, 53 mm. 
Hab. Avola, 0000 ft., Angnst. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is near /?. defntu Walker. 
44. Euproctis mambara spec nov, 
$ . Head and thorax aud tirst abdominal segment very hairy bark red ; rest 
of abdomen black, with white anal segment. Primary uniform bark red, finely 
irrorated with dark grey. Secondary uniform ehrome-yellow. 
Expanse, 49 mm. 
Hab. Riagi, Mambarfi River, .'5000 ft., April. 
Type in my collection. 
45. Euproctis xutha spec. nov. 
S- Head, thorax, and first abdominal segments orange-red; abdomen deep 
reddish, with jjale anal segment. Primary dirty orange brownish, with a very 
broad postmedian reddish waved band, beyond which is a broad area of yellowish ; 
termen reddish. Secondary uniform orange-yellow. 
? . Like the male, but less dark and more uniform in colonr. 
Expanse .• cJ 52 ; ? 68 mm. 
Hah. Kebea Range, Jnne, 3600 ft. ; Ekeikei, May, 1500 ft. 
Type in my collection. 
40. Euproctis luteosa spec. nov. 
$. Head and tliorax clear chrome-yellow ; abdomen darker, with a brownish 
anal segment. Primary clear markless chrome-yellow. Secondary uniformly 
somewhat paler. 
Expanse, 44 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
47. Euproctis rotunda spec. nov. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen dee]) fulvous, with whitish terminal segment; 
both wings deep fulvous, with a large round cream-coloured spot at the end of 
the cell, a row of subterminal deep cream spear-head marks extending into the 
termen. Sei:oudary with the spear-head marks narrower than in the primary. 
? . Like the male in all respects, except that the anal tnft, is grey, not whitish. 
Expanse, S SO ; ? 74 mm. 
Hab. Mafalu, OOOO ft., August. 
Type in my collection. 
Neorgyia gen. nov. 
Palpi short, porrect, roughly fringed with long hairs ; antennae, ? , snbserrate, 
with rcingh liairs. Neuration : primary, with vein 2 long before the angle, 3 from 
before the angle, 4 and 5 from the angle, G from below the upper angle, 7 from the 
( 1«9 ) 
end of the ariole, 8 and 9 from the arioK' stalked on a hmg highly carved stalk, 
10 from the ariole close to 8, 11 ariastoiuosiug shortly with 12 then lying close 
above 10 ; secondary with 2 from long before the angle, 3 from before the 
angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from well above the angle, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 bent 
slightly to meet 7, which rises np just to tonch it. 
Type : Neorgijia ochracca B-B. 
48. Neorgyia ochracea spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochraceous, roughly haired. Primary 
ochraceous grey, with a pale scalloped antemediau line, a subcrenulate postmedian 
line adjoining the ])ale buff reniform ; snbtermiiial stripe of dark internervular 
dashes edged with whitish externally tilling up the nerve spaces, prominent in 
the subapical area, but almost disappearing below vein 4 or 5 ; an irregular broken 
darkish line before the termen. Secondary uniform semidiaphanous cream colour. 
Expanse, 36 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Mambari5 River, February. 
Type in my collection. 
Parakanchia gen. nov. 
Palpi minute, porrect, hairy ; antennae shortly bipectinate. ? . Legs hairy, 
hind pair with two pairs of spurs. Neuration with veins 4 and 5 from the lower 
angle, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 8 and 9 near the apex, 10 midway between 
7 and 9, 10 rising from II to form an ariole, midway between the cell and 7. 
Secondary with veins 4 and 5 frum the lower angle, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Type : Parakanchia (irisea B-B. 
49. Parakanchia grisea spec. nov. 
? . Head, thorax, and abdomen darkish grey ; abdomen with the anal segment 
pale. Primary grey, roughly irrorated with darker grey, a blackish broad waved 
antemediau band, a blackish spot at the end of the cell, a blackish interrupted 
subterminal line, rising in two largish subcostal spots, and angled in the fold. 
Secondary uniform neutral greyish. 
Expanse, 50 mm. 
Hub. Babooni, August. 
Type in my collection. 
•50. Lymantria novoguineensis B-B. 
Dr. Turner asks {Trans. It. Hoc. S. Aust. vol. xxx. p. 125) whether this 
species is variable. We have a large series, and 1 can find no variation what- 
ever; it is a most constant insect both as regards size and markings. 
51. Lymantria lygaea spec. nov. 
c?. Head, antennae, and thorax umber-brown ; abdomen rosy. Primary 
umber-brown, with dark brown markings, an interrupted basal line, a median 
snbserrate line projected outwards in the cell, receding basewards below it, a 
dumb-bell shajied dash in the cell, which is closed by a double spot, a more or 
less obscure postmedian serrate line receding basewards below the cell ; in tiie 
(190) 
postmedial autl subt.erminal area arL' two more irregular serrate Hues receding 
slightly basewards below vein 3 ; termeu darkly spotted. Secondary uniform 
brownish grey. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection. 
52. Anthela charon spec. nov. 
6. Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings very dark sooty brown ; the 
primaries and secondaries with an oblique darker postmedian line. Primaries 
with a white dot iu the cell and another larger one at the end of the cell. 
Expanse, 50-60 mm. 
Ilah. Mafalu, 6000 ft., August ; Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
Specimens from the Kebea Range are less dark, with a trace of an irregular 
antemediau and median line, and a row of dark dots ontside the postmedian line. 
ARCTIIDAE. 
53. Spilosoma avola spec. nov. 
?. Head and thorax white; abdomen greyish; both wiugs white, inclined 
to be diaphanous. Primary with an erect median row of distinct dark spots 
straight across the wing, followed by a short oblique series of three or four spots 
to above vein 2, an oblique series of similar spots from the apex : these two 
series look as though they should form an oblique continuous row of spots ; 
two small dark spots below the costa at the end of the cell. Secondary spotless. 
Expanse, 56 mm. 
Hab. Avola, 6000 ft., August. 
Type in my collection. 
54. Diacrisia biagi spec. nov. 
S . Palpi deep black ; head and thorax soft otter brown ; collar darker ; 
centre of thorax broadly blackish; abdomen dirty orange colour, with broad black 
dorsal and lateral stripes ; pectus and legs deep black ; fore femora edged with 
orange. Primary pale brown, with veins finely cream-coloured, with deep velvety 
brown spots palely edged, the spots congregating in pairs on each side of the 
veins ; along vein \a are two pairs of spots before the middle and three pairs 
beyond the middle, those in the tornus being very small ; along vein 2 one pair 
iu the angle, two pairs uf small spots about the middle, a large conglomerate 
spot at the base of veins 3, 4, and 5, with two pairs of small spots beyond it 
along vein 3, one large spot across 4 and 5, with a pair of small ones near the 
termen of each vein, a large spot across and 7, above which is a small one 
to the costa, beyond this a subapical patch of four spots, with a series of six 
small spots from the apex ending below vein 6, a small basal spot, a spot near 
the middle of the cell with a smaller oue above it, a large irregular spot at the 
end of the cell. There is a trace of an orange counoctiug-liue between most 
of the spots, but it is obscure. Secondary yellow, with a large black spot at 
the end of the cell, a snbterminal irregular series of black spots, with a few spots, 
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more or less small, betweea this and the end of the cell ; termen below the apex 
black, with short black invasions of the veins to vein 3. 
Expanse, 60 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, 500U ft., March. 
Type in my collection. 
55. Diacrisia owg^arra spec. nov. 
cJ. Frons black ; bead aud collar deep cream colour ; patagia black, edged 
with cream ; thorax black, with lateral cream stripes ; abdomen rose-pink, with 
a dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Primary pale brownish, with the veins 
broadly outlined witli cream colonr ; eosta black for basal half, with two narrow 
elongate black dashes, angle of vein of \h filled in with black, a median curved 
broad black band interrupted by the veins; a very oblique broad interrupted 
blackish expanding band from the apex to near the middle of the inner margin ; 
a large black quadrangular spot at the end of the cell, with another above it; a 
subapical interrupted wedge-shaped spot confluent with the oblique band ; a terminal 
row of spots below vein 5 to the tornus. Secondary deep rose colonr, with a black 
spot closing the cell, and a broadish irregular postmedian interrupted spotted stripe ; 
apex with black sjjots. 
Expanse, 50 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra ; Biagi. 
Type in my collection. 
56. Rhodogastria nigropunctata spec. nov. 
c?. Very similar to R. crokeri BIcL., but the black in the median, apical, and 
tornal areas is larger and very intense in the primaries ; whilst the secondaries 
are wholly dark grey, not hyaline, except at the extreme base, which is creamy. 
The underside of the abdomen and the pectus is rosy ; the legs are rosy above 
and black below. 
? . Similar, but browner. 
Exjjanse, 64 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei and all other places where we had collections from. 
Type in my collection. 
57. Pisara owgarra spec. nov. 
S. Head whitish ; thorax pale grey; abdomen greyish white; both wings 
white. Primary with the basal third more or less suffused with brownish grey, 
with a darker band in the middle of the area, a fine median waved line, a subterminal 
strongly indented dark grey line edged with white, from whence to the termen the 
ground colour is grey ; termen strongly scalloped with dark grey. Secondary 
translucent white, slightly greyish toward the apex. 
Expanse, 20 to 22 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
58. Celama grisescens spec. nov. 
cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Primary pale grey, more or less suffused 
with grizzly darker grey, an obscure antemedian line, a waved indefinite median 
( 192 ) 
line, a postmedian irregnlar dark liiu", witli tlio rest of the area to the termeu 
darker grey, in which is a pule waved subtcnuinal line. Secondary uuiforni greyish 
white. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
09. Nola obliqua spec. nov. 
<S . Head white ; collar and thorax grey ; abdomen grey ; thorax and abdomen 
with a donble row of three lilack spots on the proximal segments. Primary whitish, 
strongly suffnsed with grey, a waved antemedian line, postmedian Hue very oblinue 
from the costa to vein 4, whence it recedes more obliquely basewards. This line 
is broad brownish grey, with black points on each side ; the area between this and 
the antemedian line is much suffused with grey and dark points and marks ; a short 
dark erect dash above the tornus ; termeu with black sjiots ; fringe white, spotted 
with grey. Secondary translucent white. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
60. Nola albescens spec. nov. 
S. Head and thcirax jiure white ; collar dark grey ; i)alpi grey ; abdomen 
creamy white. Primary pure white, slightly suffused in parts with very fine and 
very pale grey irroratious ; costa with a basal black si)ot, a sub-iiasal one, two 
median and three snbapical spots, an obscure waved pale sub-basal line, a waved grey 
median line, an excurved subcrenulate postmedian pale line, receding rapidly 
basewards below vein o, with a short black dash on its curve near the inner 
margin, a subterminal interrupted serrate line ; termeu preceded by a row of white 
dashes between the veins ; fringe gre}'. Secondary translucent white, slightly 
grey towards the termen. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hub. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
Parapelosia gen. uov. 
Proboscis developed; palpi minute; antennae with very fine longish cilia. 
Primary long and narrow, with vein 2 from the cell strongly curved at the base, 
3 and 4 stalked on a long stalk, 5 absent, 6, 7, 8, and 9 stalked, 6 from near cell 
with base curved, 7 and 8 on a long stalk, 9 from just beyond 6, 10 from the cell, 
11 anastomosing with 12. Secondary with costa straight; apex acute; termeu 
evenly curved rapidly receding to the anal angle, with vein 2 from beyond the 
middle of the cell, 3 and 4 coincident, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, anastomosing 
with 8 to half the cell. 
Type : Parapelosia grisesceiis B-B. 
61. Parapelosia grisescens spec. uov. 
<J. Head and thorax cboculate-grey ; abdomen paler. Primary grizzly brownish 
grey, with costa ashy grey for the basal half, ilark brownish below it, paler in centre 
of inner margin, with two short dark dashes above it ; veins in discal area darkly 
( 193 ) 
Outllued, termiaal area darkish, several short dark dashes iu the darker areas of tne 
wing. Secondary warm pale slatey grey, paler at base and along inner margin. 
Expanse, 25 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra. 
Type iu my collection. 
62. Graphosia phaeocraspis spec. nov. 
cf. Head, thorax, and abdomen milky white. Primary uniform dead white 
without any mark. Secondary pale greyish ; underside of primary dark brownish 
grey, with lower part of cell and the inner margin white to near tornns. 
Expanse, 2i3 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is figured by mo on PI. v. fig. 20, Noc. Zool. vol. xi. as I iu 
the first instance mistook it fur the ¥ of Scoliacma hampsoni B-B. 
63. Scoliacma virginea spec. nov. 
S . Head, thorax, and abdomen snowy white. Primary snowy white, with the 
inner margin slightly excavated from the middle to the tornus. Secondary highly 
developed above the cell, snowy white, the costal third tinged with cream ; 
underside with a large patch of androconia in the cell fringed finely and smoothly 
with cilia below, below which lies a long pencil of deep cream-coloured hairs. 
Secondary with a large patch of creamy androconia above the cell, having a thick 
close fringe on the costa. 
? . Normal, entirely snowy white. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra ; Biagi, 500U ft., April. 
Type in my collection. 
64. Scoliacma pellopis spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax pale greyish brown ; abdomen ochreous grey. Primary 
pale uniform greyish brown without any markings. Secondary whitish ochreous, 
slightly lustrous. The primaries are much afiected by androconia in and around the 
cell on the underside and by a patch above the apex of the cell, whilst the secondaries 
are considerably distorted by a like cause. 
¥ . Exactly like the male, but the wings and the neuration are normal. 
Expanse : c? 37 ; ? 34 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra ; Biagi, February. 
Type in my collection. 
6o. Ilema owgarra spec. nov. 
(J. Head and thorax dull sepia brown interspersed with ochreous ; abdomen 
pale grey. Primary dull sepia brown tinged with chocolate-brown more or less 
mottled all over with ochreous, more especially along the fold, the costa being 
narrowly and finely similarly irrorated. Secondary pule greyish, darker in the 
apical area. 
J . Exactly like the male. 
Expanse : (J 36 ; ? 40 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
13 
( 194 ) 
GO. Ilema warringtouella spec. nov. 
cJ. Head, collar, and patagia deep cream, the latter fringed with grey ; thorax 
dark sooty grey ; abdomen pale grey. Primary dark bronzy grey, with costa 
pearly white, slightly expanding ontwards ; tornus to half the termen and half the 
inner margin pearly-white. Secondary darkish grey, whitish below the cell. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
IJab. Owgarra. 
Type iu my collection. 
07. Nacaduba costimacula spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax deep velvety crimson-brown ; abdomen pale brownish, 
with pale grey proximal segments ; the third abdominal segment emits a long 
j)encil of fine ochreous hairs reaching to the anal tnft. Primary pale pinkish 
brownish ochreons, with a deep brown velvety spot near the centre of the costa, 
beyond which the costa is produced into a deep lobe, where the serrate postmedian 
line rises ; a very slight trace of the median line below the costal spot ; a small 
dark dot at the end of the cell ; a slightly paler tornal patch. Secondary whitish, 
ochreous pink in the apical area. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
T}i5e iu my collection. 
68. Palaeosia longistriga sjjec. nov. 
S. Head pale ochreous; thorax very pale fawn colour, with pale ochreous 
patagia ; abdomen creamy. Primary with the cell tilled in with somewhat speckled 
darkish brown, expanding with the cell nearly up to the termen ; below the cell 
a broad pale straw-coloured stripe, expanding ontwards up to the termen ; inner 
margin broadly darkish for the basal half of its length ; costa to the cell pale 
ochreous, somewhat irrorated with greyish ; a trace of an oblique postmedian line. 
Secondary uniform creamy whitish. 
Expanse, 43 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, .5000 ft., April. 
Type in my collection. 
These two species are nearly allied, but I believe them to be distinct, especially 
considering the altitudes at which they were taken, combined with the month of 
capture. 
GO. Palaeosia grandis spec. nov. 
?. Head creamy white ; collar and thorax grizzly brown ; jiatagia fringed with 
creamy white ; abdomen creamy white. Primary mottled grizzly brown, with a 
broad creamy-white stripe along the fold to the middle of the wing ; a largish 
grey spot directly above the end of this stripe. Secondary pale creamy ochreous. 
Expanse, T)! mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 3G00 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
More material may prove this to be the ? of the preceding species. 
( 195 ) 
Garudinodes gen. nov. 
Falpi minute; proboscis develoiied; antennae, S bipectinate, with long and .short 
very fine cilia ; legs, midtibiae with one pair of spurs, hindtibiae with two pairs 
of stontish spurs. Priniarj- with costa strongl}' arched at a quarter before the 
apex ; termen evenly arched, receding somewhat towards the toruus. Nenration 
with vein 2 from rather beyond the middle of the cell, 3 and 4 from the angle, 
5 absent, 6, 7, 8, and 9 stalked, 7 and 8 near the apes, 9 nearer to 8 than to 6, 
10 from near the end of the cell, 11 absent. Secondary with 2 from the lower 
angle, 3 and 4 on a long stalk, 6 and 7 on a very long stalk, 8 coincident with 7 
to half the cell. 
Type : Garudinodes bicolorana B-B. 
70. Garudinodes bicolorana spec. nov. 
(S . Head white ; thora.K chocolate-brown, with white patagia; abdomen greyish 
brown. Primary white, with a broad autemedian pale chocolate-brown baud ; 
postmedian area of the same colour to the termen ; tlie termen with an apical white 
patch ; fringes white. Secondary uniform pale brownish. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
Parascaptia gen. nov. 
Palpi minute ; proboscis absent ; antennae very finely and minutely bipectinate ; 
wings of even width ; costa strongly arched ; termen receding to the toruus. 
Nenration, primary with vein 2 from a little beyond the middle of the cell, 
curved at the base, 3 and 4 stalked from the angle, 5 absent, from below the 
upper angle, 7, 8, and 9 stalked, 7 and 8 from near the termen, 9 from well beyond 
the cell, 10 and 11 free, the latter arched ; secondary with vein 2 from well before 
the angle, 3, 4, 5 and 6 stalked on a long stalk, 8 free at base, then bent to 
anastomose shortly with 7. 
Type : I'arascaptia biplagata B-B. 
71. Parascaptia biplagata spec. nov. 
S . Head and collar bright yellow ; thorax yellow, striped with crimson ; 
abdomen pale greyish. Primary bright yellow, with the basal half of the purplish 
red receding basewards towards the costa, the base having a yellow spot on the 
costa ; a large postmedian ])atch of purplish red riglit across the wing, leaving 
the termen bright yellow. Secondary clear semihyaliue yellowish white. 
Expanse, 16 mm. 
Hab. Babooni, 3000 ft., September. 
Type in my collection. 
72. Chionaema biagi s])ec. nov. 
(J. Head and thorax brownish ; abdomen grey. Primary pale Ijrownish grey, 
with base darkei', mai'giued by a dark grey line ; the latter half of the median area 
and the postmedian area dark brownish grey all across the wing, the area beyond 
the cell being extended farther out than the costal and inner marginal areas, the 
( 196 ) 
test of the wing pale greyish, with a trace of a darker subapical patch exteading 
to the tornns in an obscare line. Secondary dirty grey. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
JIah. Biagi, Mambare Kiver, Jannary. 
Type in my collection. 
73. Azura lutea spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax pale yellow ; abdomen creamy. Primary clear pale 
yellow, with a short pale grey crescent on the fold, and another pale grey obscure 
crescentic mark beyond the cell. Secoud;iry translucent palest lemon-yellow. 
Expanse, 22 mm. 
Ilab, Biagi, March, and Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
74. Azura owgarra spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax pale yellow ; abdomen creamy yellowish. Primary base 
clear yellow with a grey basal dot ; a bmad autemedian dark grey band, followed by 
an irregular fascia of pale yellow ; postmedian and subterminal area entirely dark 
grey; termen irregular pale yellow; inner margin pale yellow, interrapted by 
the antemediau band. Secondary clear pale lemon-yellow. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
Ilah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
75. Miltoclirista biagi spec. nov. 
?. Head and thora'x vermilion-red; abdomen pinkish ochreous. Primary 
vermilion-red, with the veins outlined with ochreous, with autemedian, median, 
jiostniedian, and subterminal grey lines roughly panillel with each other, excurved, 
serrate, and broadish ; termen with black points ; fringe grey. Secondary uniform 
translucent pinkish. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
IM). Biagi, 5000 ft., March. 
Type in my collection. 
76. Schistophleps hyalina spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax very pale straw colour ; abdomen whitish. Primary uniform 
diaj)hanous washed-out straw colour, with the least trace of a greyish postmedian 
line. Secondary diaphanous white, jiractically without any colour at all. 
Exjjanse, 2U mm. 
Ilah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
NOCTUIDAE. 
77. Agrotis kebea spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale cinnamon-grey. Primary pale cinnamon- 
grey, brighter than the thorax, with a pale basal slightly obliijne line angled 
at the costa, darkly edged in part ; a dentate antemediau line with dentations 
darkly tipped ; orbicular pale, darkly edged laterally ; reniform reddish, with a 
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dark spot ; postmedian line crennlate, sliglitly produced ia the npper radial area, 
finely and darkly edged internally, with dark points externally ; a dark costal 
subapical clond, from whence a reddish subterminal line, palely edged externally and 
slightly toothed jnst below the dark cloud, descends to near the toruus ; termen 
darkly pointed with reddish. Secondary pale pinkish grey. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Ilah. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is near ^1. daldii. 
T8. AgTotis owgarra spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax pale pinkish grey ; abdomen grey. Primary pale pinkish 
grey, with scarcely any marking before the median line ; two sub-basal grey dots 
in the cell, one beyond the other ; an obscure grey line on the basal side of the 
obscnre reniform ; orbicular just traceable; an obscnro postmedian line, terminal 
area broadly grey ; fringes pinkish grey. Secondary pale greyish, slightly darker 
towards the apex and termen. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is near A. nibricilia Moore. 
79. Caradrina owgarra spec nov. 
(?. Head grey, interspersed with reddish brown scales, with a large dark 
central patch ; collar deep velvety purplish brown ; thorax and abdomen pale 
grey. Primary pale grey, with an antemedial irregular darker grey line, followed 
by a nearly similar very dark line ; an indefinite waved brownish median line ; 
orbicular and reniform very finely outlined with blackish ; postmedial dark line 
irregular, followed by a narrow curved band of dark shading. Secondary whitish. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
80. Leocyma tibiopunctata spec. nov. 
S ? . Palpi white below, ochreons laterally, tipped with black ; fore tibia and 
tarsi spotted with black ; tibia yellow at its joint with the femora ; tarsi yellow 
for the three end segments ; both wings pure shining white, with a black point 
below the apex. 
Expanse, 48-50 mm. 
Hah. Ekeikei, January, February, and July. 
Type in my collection. 
81. Leocyma nigropunctata spec. nov. 
?. Palpi white; end segment black or strongly tipped with black ; fore tibia 
and tarsi white, spotted with black ; femora blackish above ; both wings shining 
white ; termen with black points. 
Expanse, 45-49 mm. 
Hah. Ekeikei, January and February ; Kebea Range, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
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82. Gabala margarita spec nov. 
c?. Head yellow ; palpi dark crimson ; collar ^yellow, with crimson hairs, and 
a snow-white spot on each side, which is edged ontside with dark crimson ; thorax 
deep crimson, edged finely more or less with yellow ; abdomen creamy white. 
Primary with costa and termen narrowly yellow ; base yellow, more or less 
suffused with crimson, followed by a large diamond-shaped spot of pearly white; 
the rest of the wing crimson, with a slightly greyish band adjoining the ])early 
spot ; a short pearly dash over the end of the cell ; a small pearly subapical spot, 
below which is a similar dot. Secondary pale lemon-yellow, shading into white 
at the base. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
83. Rivula biagi spec. nov. 
S- Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy. Primary deep cream coloured, without 
any markings before the obscure reniform, which is darkly spotted ; a trace of a 
pale serrate subterminal line, beyond which to the termen the ground-colour is 
darker ; termen darkly spotted. Secondary jiale creamy, darker close to the 
termen. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Maml)are River. 
Type in my collection. 
This species will be next R. crassipes Turner. 
84. Ramadasa pratti sj)ec. nov. 
c?. Palpi blackish, whitish below ; frons barred orange and steel blue ; pectus 
whitish ; legs barred orange and steel bine, especially the forelegs ; head finely 
irrorated lilac grey ; collar and thorax chestnut-brown, irrorated with slightly 
darker chestnut-brown ; abdomen chrome-yellow, with a small black tuft on the 
jiroximal segment. Primary pinkish brown, suffused in parts with purplish ; 
basal half of costa finely orange, edged finely below with pale purple, with five 
blue-black spots followed by an excnrved bine-black line meeting a similar 
incurved line, which extends to the inner margin beyond its centre, a short black 
costal dash bej'ond the excurved line ; a pale olive-green crescent at the end of 
the cell finely edged with white and with a second edging on its costal side with 
black, which extends over it right into the termen and has a broader blackish 
line above it from the costa into the termen about vein G ; the area enclosed by 
these lines and above the crescent mark is olive-green ; a velvety dark spot edged 
outside with tawny is jnst ontside the inner curve of the crescent, and from it a pale 
lilac line extends in the black lines to the termen ; below the velvety spot are two 
dark small spots ; a series of dark subterminal jioints with two pale lilac spots at 
the tornus ; base of wing finely irrorated with orange. Secondary spotless chrome- 
yellow. 
? . Like the male, bat instead of being chestuut-brown it is lilac-grey. 
Expanse : c? 58 ; ? 55 mm. 
Bab. Babooui, September ; Djnawa, August. 
Type in my collection, 
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85. Zophochroa aneliopa spec. iidv. 
S. Head and tliorax dark soot}' grey ; abdomen dirty grey. Primary dark sooty 
grey, with a trace of an anteinedian line crossing a whitish dot ; a trace of a 
postmedian line edged with a whitish dash in the fold ; postmedian area slightly 
paler, a whitish apical spot preceded by a whitish costal dot. Secondary dirty grey. 
Expanse, 17 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, Jannary. 
Type in the Tring Mnsenm. 
This species is near Z. melanica Turner. 
86. Gadirtha aroa spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax grizzly grey ; abdomen ochreons grey. Primary 
darkish grey, with a dark waved short costal basal dash, an obliqne twin ante- 
median dark line, twice scalloped near the costa, then straight to vein 2 ; a 
palo grey patch in the cell ; reniform dark grey, with a dark patch at its lower 
enter extremity, ailjoiuing a large pale grey spot ; edging this spot externally 
is a trace of a fine carved waved postmedian line, an obscnre trace of a 
serrate snbterminal line ; termen deeply and finely scalloped with blackish ; 
the wings have a mottled appearance, not being smoothly marked. Secondaries 
ochreons grey, darker grey for the outer half. 
Expanse, 48 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River. 
Type in my collection. 
I place this species with doubt in this genus, as the thorax has a long 
central tnft. 
87. Stictoptera swinhoei spec. nov. 
$ . Head and collar dark brownish grey ; patagia paler than the thorax 
(in some specimens as dark as the thorax) ; abdomen dark grey. Primary pale 
ashy grey ; base more or less marked with brownish; the twin median dark lines 
obli(pie from the-costa, then curved outwards and receding from vein 1 to the 
inner margin ; these lines are filled in, and the area surrounding them, with dark 
brownish grey ; postmedian line obscure, serrate, and excnrved ; a subtcrminal 
interrupted row of dark small spots ; termen with dark internervular dashes ; 
costa' mottled with brown ; orbicular and reniform stigmata finely outlined 
with blackish. Secondary hyaline with costa broadly and termen very broadly 
dark grey. 
? . Like the male, but the twin median lines and the snbterminal row of 
spots are marked with ochreons spots. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Huh. Dinawa, Avola, Keboa Range. 
Type in my collection. ? uni(|ue. 
88. Capotena liampsoni spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax dark olive greenish brown ; abdomen dark slate-grey. 
Primary with the costal half palo pinkish buff colour, the lower half darkish lilac- 
grey ; termen pale hivender-grey, a large median olive greenish jiateh edged with 
white except on the costa ; the patch is obliijue as to its internal edge, and 
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reniform on its external edge, with a small dark spot at the end of the cell ; 
a dark pnrplish suhterminal dentate line margins internally the pale termen. 
Secondar)- dark slate-grej-. 
? . Like the male, bnt paler. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Hub. Ekeikei, Jannar)- to March. 
Types in my collection. 
89. Nyctipao aroa spec. nov. 
<?. Head and thorax dark blackish brown ; abJomen dark sooty brown, 
covered with metallic purplish blue ; both wings dark sooty brown, with a deep 
metallic pnrplish bine lustre in certain lights ; no markings visible on either wing, 
except the large ocellns of the primary, with the least trace of the antemedian line 
and that across the fold in continuation of the dark edge of the ocellns. 
? . Like the male, bnt much loss dark. Primary with the erect waved and 
dentate antemedian line distinct ; ocellns distinct, with its inner crescent filled 
in with tawny, the rest dark, with its onter edge black, extending to the inner 
edge of the crescent, then descending in a broad twice-scalloped line to the inner 
margin ; a broad oblique white dash at a (piarter from the apex, with the least 
trace of a large spotted line crossing it at its lower extremity. 
Expanse, 100 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, October. 
Type in my collection. 
90. Hulodes gothica spec. nov. 
<?. Head and thorax pale cinnamon-brown ; abdomen pale greyish. Primary 
pale cinnamon-brown, with base and termen broadly ochreous ; a basal broadish 
grey band, antemedian band broad dark grey, ending on the inner margin with 
a deep velvety brown mark with a circular excision on its outer and lower edge, 
a median grey band, a trace of two confluent postraedian grey lines, and a 
pubterminal one, outside which is an erect rusty definite stripe, edged with a 
broad sinuous blackish grey dash from the costa and a less conspicuous one 
from the tornus ; a large ochreous patch at the end of the cell. The grey bands 
are all nearly erect and indefinite as to width, and the wing is more or less 
closely irrorated with dark grey. Secondary greyish, with a dark median grey 
band, followed by an ochreous one, then a broad dark grey somewhat divided 
area with a broad ochreous termen ; wing finely irrorated with grey. 
Expanse, 86 mm. 
Huh. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Catephiodes gen. nov. 
Similar to Catephia, but palpi, with first and second segments heavily 
scaled, reaching above the vortex ; third segment smoothly scaled, and long 
antennae, with a few very fine and minute hairs in both sexes, so fine as to be almost 
simple ; thorax with collar erected almost to a tuft ; proximal segment of thorax 
hairy, and with a fiin-like spreading tuft ; tibiae with spines, hind tibiae of 
male with long hairy tufts. 
Type : Catephiodes meeki B-B. 
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91. Catephiodes meeki spec, no v. 
t?. Palpi, head, and thorax dark purplish brown; patagia and collar edged 
with tawny; abdomen sooty grey. Primary dark purplish brown, with dark 
velvety lines edged with paler mauve or tawny brown ; basal line interrupted ; 
antemedian line angled at the costa, waved below ; a dark spot ia the cell, 
succeeded by a dark dash ; reniform tawuy, below which is a large dark patch 
edged by a deep velvety line ; postmedian line spotted, very strongly excnrved 
in the radial area ; a broad tawny waved stripe from the apex to in front of the 
tornus ; radial veins darkly dashed ; termen darkly scalloped. Secondary black, 
with a large jiure white patch occupying the basal and mediaa areas. 
Expanse, 58 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, February. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
92. Hypaetra costiplaga spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax cinnamon-brown, finely irrorated with pale greyish ; 
abdomen brownish. Primary cinnamon-brown finely irrorated with pale lilac- 
grey, a trace of a brown interrupted oblique antemedian line; two wedge-shaped 
tawny costal sjiots, one in the middle and one just before the apex ; a trace of 
an interrupted very obscure postmedian Hue below the first wedge-shaj^ed spot ; 
termen with internervnlar tawny wedge-shaped dashes. Secondary pale silky 
brown. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March. 
Type in my collection. 
93. Acantholipes biagi spec nov. 
5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull umber-brown. Primary umber-brown ; 
costa finely ochreous, spotted with blackish ; a dark basal < shaped mark ; a 
dark erect median straight band, adjoining which at the costa and on the fold 
is the excnrved postmedian line, an irregular waved subtermiual shaded band ; 
termeu darkly scalloped. Secondary dark sooty grey, with a darker median line. 
Expanse, 25 mm. 
Hab. Biagi. 
Type in my collection. 
94. Acantholipes irrorata spec. nov. 
<?. Head russet-brown ; thorax, abdomen, and both wings ochreous grey ; 
wings with a series of grey lines interspersed with russet-brown spots. 
Primary with the median line excnrved and edged finely internally with russet- 
brown ; a russet interrupted mark at the tornus ; a very interrupted subtermiual 
dentate row of blackish points ; termen with black points. Secondary with the 
grey bands more distinct than in the primary, with the subtermiual row of black 
points complete as also the terminal row ; both wings sparsely irrorated with 
fine blackish points. 
Expanse, 25 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River. 
Type in Tring Museum. 
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95. Dahlia melanica spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax dark sooty browu ; abdomen paler; both wiugs dark 
sooty brown. Primary with two small conspicnons white dots in the cell ; a trace 
of a fine irregular interrupted anteiuediiin line ; postmedian dark line waved, 
siibcreniilate ; snbtermiiial line irreguhirly rijipled with a paler external edging; 
termen with dark points. Secondary with median and postmedian cnrved dark 
lines. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Hah. Biagi, Mambar^ River. 
Type in my collection. 
90. Dahlia ochreana spec. nov. 
i . Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings ochreons grey. Primary with a 
dark costal dash at the base, followed by two dark costal dots, a trace of au 
oblique antemedian line ; median obliipie line only visible below the cell, a trace 
of a dotted postmedian oblique line, a dark dot in the cell ; reniform rather 
darker than ground-colour, a short black waved dash from the apex ; subterminal 
pale line subcrennlate, obscure ; termen with dark points. Secondary with a 
paler waved median line; termen broadly greyish, with a trace of a paler sub- 
terminal line ; termen darkly dotted. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hal). Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
97. Zethes pratti spec. nov. 
S. Head irrorated fawn colour ; thorax and abdomen cinnamon-grey. Primary 
cinnamon-grey, with a narrow fiiwn-colonred shading to the costa for two-thirds, 
in which is a very short pale basal and antemedian dash to the cell ; reniform 
tawny : postmedian line pale, with a darkly spotted internal edging for its upper 
half, deeply angled at vein 4 ; edging this line externally on its costal half is a 
large wedge-shaped tawny patch, the termen and fringe are darkly suffused by its 
lower part; the wing is irrorated with rough scales, slightly darker than the 
ground-colour. Secondary pale brownish grey. 
? . Like the male, but with darker irrorations. 
Expanse, c? 40 ; ? 32 mm. 
Hah. Dinawa, August and September. 
Types in my collection. 
9s. Capnodes griseiplaga spec. nov. 
cJ. Head greyish ; thorax ochreous ; abdomen greyish ; both wings pinkish 
ochreous ; costa finely dark grey for the basal two-thirds, with two white spots, 
one before, and a second larger behind its centre ; an interrupted antemedian 
dark spotted grey line; a trace of a similar 'median line of spots; au excurved 
serrate postmedian line ; a subapical patch of dark grey on the termen, and a 
similar coloured dash aljove the tornus ; termen with black points, three below 
the apex being prominent. Secondary with a trace of a median and postmedian 
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grey line, a large dark grey patch at the anal angle ; termen with fine dark 
points. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
Farara gen. nov. 
c?. Palpi small, scaled, end segment short, not reaching above the vertex ; 
antennae bipectinate with cilia ; legs smooth ; midtibia with one pair of spurs, 
hindtibia with two pairs ; thorax and abdomen smoothly haired. Neuration : 
primary with vein 2 from just beyond the centre of the cell, 3 from before the 
angle, 4 from the lower angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 
7, 8, and 9 stalked, the first well beyond the ariole, the latter two near the apex, 
10 witli a short bar to 7 to form the small ariole, 11 from the middle of the cell, 
depressed near its centre ; secondary with 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from above 
the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. Primary triangular with costa very 
slightly arched, depressed at the apex ; termen excavated below apex to vein 4, 
where it is produced outwards, receding below it to the tornus. Secondary fairly 
full ; termen excavated slightly below apex ; truncate near angle. 
Type : Farara pulchra B-B. 
99. Farara pulchra spec. nov. 
c?. Head pale fawn colour ; thorax pale whitish, ochreous, barred with pale 
fawn colour ; abdomen pale purplish. Primary pale whitish, ochreons, with three 
broadish waved basal fawn-coloured lines ; reniform fawn-coloured ; median area 
below the cell and postmedian area up to the costa mauve colour, witii a dark 
band of shading below the angle of vein 3 ; subterminal double line strongly 
scalloped three times, the two costal scallops being about half the size of the 
lowest one, which ends in the tornus. This latter portion of the lines is deep 
purple, a trace of a line of darker interrupted shading between this and the 
termen, which is darkly edged except about vein 4. Secondary purple up to 
the postmediau highly scalloped line, which is edged externally with pale fawn, 
and has a pale fawn subapical waved dash extending into a fine subterminal 
line in the pale terminal area ; termen with a small triangular purple spot at 
the anal angle. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
100. Iluza aroa spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax greyish tawny; abdomen darker. Primary greyish 
tawny brown, with a tawny very oblifiue stripe from the costa near the apex to 
the inner margin at a qnarter from the base ; a similar coloured scalloped strip 
from the apex to the inner margin nearer the tornus, followed by a second finer 
stripe iuto the tornus ; a pale stripe in the cell, and a pale interrupted tornal 
patch on the termen ; termen darkly dotted, and produced into an angle at 
vein 4. Secondary brownish grey. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
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Paralopha gen. no v. 
Palpi smooth]}' scaled, erectly upturned, second segment reaching to the 
vertex, end segment long, almost naked ; antennae of female simple ; thorax 
ronghly scaled ; abdomen smoothly scaled, with dorsal tufts on the three proximal 
segments ; legs very slightly hairy. Neuration : primary with vein 3 from 
before the lower angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from well above the angle, from 
the upper angle, 7 from the tip of the ariole stalked with 8 and 9 — these two 
latter on a long stalk, and anastomosing with 10 to form the ariole; secondary 
with cell unusually short, only a quarter of the wing ; veins 3 and 4 from close 
to the angle, 5 from well above the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 
Primary with costa very slightly and evenly arched ; apex roi^nded ; termen 
slightly produced to an angle abont vein 4, and slightly excavated below it ; 
inner margin produced into a tuft near tornns, then slightly excavated and pro- 
duced into a rounded shoalder, receding rapidly to the base. Secondary small ; 
costa somewhat straight ; termen rapidly rounded off, giving a narrow appearance. 
Type : Paralopha ruhiginea B-B. 
lul. Paralopha rubiginea spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax purplish brown ; abdomen dark grey, with slate-grey 
tufts. Primary rnfons, with a trace of pale ot-hreons basal and median lines, 
with a large pale grey median patch mottled with reddish, a dark red spot on the 
costa near the dark greyish reniform ; a much interrupted pale ochreous subter- 
minal line ; the wing has a rough and mottled appearance. Secondary pale 
grey, darker towards the termen. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
102. Ilyrgis brunneata. 
rT. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Primary pale greyish brown, 
with a fine antemedian and posttuedian strongly serrated and irregular line, each 
rising in a short oblique white costal dash, the interspace being more or less 
olive-brown; a dark olive-brown costal patch, edged externally by an erect white 
dash, from which descends a fine obscure subtermiual line ; termen darkly dotted; 
fringe whitish in the subapical excavation and between veins \h and 4. 
Secondary greyish, with a dark irregnlar median line with an external edging of 
lighter shading, and a short subterminal jiale line from vein 6 to the tornns. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hah. Biagi (Mambare Eiver) ; Aroa River, Blarch. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
Parilyrgis gen. nov. 
Differs from lli/ryis in that the puljii are sickle-shaped, the second segment 
reaching well above the vertex of the head; the third segment is long and fringed 
with long hair ; hindwing with vein 3 from just before the angle, 4 from the 
angle, 5 from just above the angle. 
Type ; Parilyrgi$ concolor B-B. 
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103. Parilyrgis concolor spec. nov. 
cJ. Palpi and liead whitish; mcsothnrax cream colour; thorax, patagia, and 
abdomen pale ochreous brownish. Primary pale ochreons brownish, with darker 
very irregular, somewhat scalloped median, postmedian, and subterminal lines, 
arising in a creamy costal dash, and having several creamy points ; termeu finely 
dark, with dark indefinite small iuternervular spots ; fringes creamy below the 
apex, dark and intersected below vein 5. Secondary pale greyish, with a dark 
median and a pale postmedian line. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August ; Aroa River, March. 
Tyjie in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
104. Simplicia medioangulata spec. nov. 
?. Palpi, head, thorax, abdomen, and primary uniform dark dull brown. 
Primary with an inwardly obliipie straight dark sub-basal line, a finer dark 
jiostmedian line, strongly angled outwardly beyond the cell, an obscure dark spot 
terminating the cell, a subterminal inwardly oblique dark line edged finely exter- 
nally with a fine pale line ; termen finely pale, preceded by internervular dark 
points. Secondary slightly paler than the primary, with a short dark median line, 
postmedian line dark, edged externally with a fine pale line angled below 
vein 2. 
Expanse, 31 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
105. Simplicia aroa spec. nov. 
? . Similar in general colonr to medioangtilata B-B., but not so dark, whilst 
the basal line is nearly crenulate and outwardly oblique ; the postmedian line is 
very slightly angled ; the subterminal line is represented by a fine cream-coloured 
line, with the dark inner line practically obsolete, this difference being also carried 
out in the secondary, whilst it has no angle below vein 2. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, February. 
Type in my collection. 
106. Simplicia trilineata spec. nov. 
¥ . Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous dirty grey. Primary very 
I)alo ochreous, with costa finely dark ; antemedian, median, and postmedian lines 
dark, roughly parallel ; the antemedian line very fine, median broader, postmedian 
still broader, and somewhat curved from this line to the termen suffused with dark 
grey ; termen finely dark. Secondary pale clear yellowish-white, with the post- 
median darkish line angled at vein 2. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
107. Simplicia triliaea spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, abdomen and primary uniform dull cinnamon-brown, with an 
obli(|ue waved fine antemedian line ; postmedian line excurved beyond tlie cell ; cell 
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closed b)- an obscure clash ; subterminal liae sliglitlj iiunirved, witli the area beyoud 
pale ochreous. Secondary pale ochreous brown, darker near the angled pale 
snbterminal line, beyond which the terminal area is pale ochreous. The three pairs 
of legs have the tibire covered with masses of flocculent long hairs. 
?. Like the male, but darker and without the hairy legs. 
Expanse, tyiie sjjecimen, oU mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, and all other localities. 
Type in my collection. 
The species varies considerably in size. 
108. Libisosa floccosa spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thora.\, abdomen, and both wings greyish brown. In addition to (he 
fore tibi;e, the mid tibire have a great mass of floccnlent scales, and the hind 
femora have a large pencil of long hairs. Primary with a fine blackish irregular 
serrated line, a dark small spot in the cell, and a fine serrate dark postmedian line 
e.xcnrved just below tiie costa ; an obliqne pale subterminal line ; termeu darkly 
dotted. Secondary with a darkish obscure dot in the cell, an oblique snbserrate 
postmedian line, a jiale angled subterminal line ; termen finely ochreous, darkly 
dotted. 
Expanse : c? 52 ; ? 40 mm. 
Hal). Babooni and Ekeikei. 
Types in my collection. 
Sqiiamipalpis gen. nov. 
Palpi sickle-shaped throughout, very roughly and coarsely scaled to the 
extremity ; second segment reaching well above the vertex, third segment long ; 
antennae of male tine, very finely and minutely ciliate, and with paired fine 
bristles ; thorax coarsely scaled ; abdomen smooth ; legs smoothly scaled, not 
hairy. Neuration : males with a large costal fold, occupying nearly all of the 
cell of the primary, and ending well beyond its end, vein 3 from below the 
lower angle, 4 from tiie angle, o from just above the angle, from the upper 
angle, 7 from directly below the end of the ariole, which is just visible in the 
male, and well developed in the female, 8 and 9 forked, lo and II from the 
aborted costal vein in the male, in the female 9 anastomoses with In to form 
the ariole ; secondary 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 from directly above the 
angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle ; costa straight, depressed near the apex, 
which is very acute, almost falcate ; termeu excurved at veins 3 to 5 ; secondary long, 
slightly excavated below the apex ; termen cut off straightish from vein 2 ; inner 
margin very short. 
Type : Squamipalpis unilinmta B-B. 
109. Squamipalpis unilineata spec. nov. 
S. Palpi tawny brown ; thorax and abdomen tawny grey ; both wings pale 
tawny ochreous ; primary with a trace of a fine dark serrate sub-basal line, a broad 
straight inwardly oblicpie dark median line edged externally with whitish; renifimu 
chestnut (Hjlour; a trace of an interrupted somewjiat crenulate jiostmedian line 
excurved beyond the cell ; a subcreiiulate auteterminal darkly dotted line palely 
edged externally, irregular and excurved about veins 7 and 8, and again about 
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vein 5 ; termen with (lark points ; secondary with the obliqne median lines and 
the snbterminal line of the jjrimary carricil through. 
?. Like the male, but without the obliijue lines, with the reniform stigma, and 
the snbterminal line darker. 
Expanse : c? 33 ; ? 30 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, September ; Area River, Febrnary and March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
110. Badiza albopunctata spec. nov. 
S . Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings olive-brown. Primary with the 
antemedian fine line, indistinct, obliqne, and dentate, a white point followed by a 
white spot in the cell ; postmedian line irregular, serrate, receding at the costa and 
inner margin ; subterminal line irregular, marked out by white dots ; termen darkly 
spotted. Secondary with median line irregular, postmedian line marked out by 
white points. 
Exj)anse, 33 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa lliver, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
111. Pseudoglossa novog'uineana spec. nov. 
c?. Palpi dark chocolate-brown; thorax cinnamon-brown; abdomen greyish 
brown. Primary greyish brown, with a pinkish suffusion, especially in the post- 
median and terminal areas ; sub-basal darker line interrupted; postmedian dark line 
edged externally with whitish, excnrved beyond the cell, slightly incurved ou the 
fold; a trace of a pale subterminal line; termen darkly dotted; reuiform with two 
dark dots. Secondary uniform greyish brown. 
?. Like the male, but the lines are more defined. 
Expanse, S and ? 30 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, September ; Kebea Range, May and June. 
Type in my collection. 
■ 112. Bleptina bifurcata spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen umber-brown. Primaries umber-brown, with a 
pale creamy line bisecting the cell longitudinally and bifurcated at the end of the 
cell along veins 3 aud 4 to the termen ; a basal short scalloped creamy line ; an erect 
sub-basal stripe ; a strongly angled postmedian line, the angle occurring between 
veins 3 aud 4 ; an irregular subterminal line internally edging a small pale apical 
patch ; a creamy dash closes the cell, and is preceded by a creamy dot in the cell. 
Secondary uniform greyish brown, with an indefinite median and a pale crenulate 
postmedian line. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
This species is nearly allied to B. albieenuta Leech. 
113. Bleptina serratula spec, nov 
c?. Head and thorax fawn-brown, irrorated with dark grey ; abdomen darkish 
grey. Primary pale fawn-brown, with a dark basal line; a dark, somewhat oblique. 
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internally serrate snb-basal line; a median black band, broad at the costa and in the 
Cfll, but narrow at the npper margin of the cell, descemling in an angled line below 
the cell to the margin ; postmedian line fine, strongly serrate, projected outwards 
beyond the cell ; snbterminal line iiue, interrnpted, dentate, rising in a black costal 
patch; termen with fine dark scallops; reniform palely marked out except on its 
enter side. 
Secondary nniform pale ochreons grey, with a jjale median baud. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Ilah. Monnt Kebea, July. 
Type in my collection. 
114. Bleptina albonotata spec. nov. 
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown; both wings pinkish brown, 
with a short curved dark basal line, edged palely externally ; two white crescents in 
the cell; a median curved band of dark shading; an oblique white fine dash at 
two-thirds of the costa ; a broad indefinite band of dark postmedian shading ; termen 
with dark internervnlar dashes edged externally with white. Secondaries with 
an indefinite median band of dark shading ; a jiale postmedian fine line, beyond 
which the terminal area is dark. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
Aneliopis gen. nov. 
Palpi long, recurved ; second segment reaching well over vertex, heavily 
fringed ; third segment with a tuft on the inner side ; antennae of male bipectinate 
with cilia, the termination of the pectinations being a longish simple spine ; in tlie 
female the bipectination is very fine, and shorter ; thorax roughly scaled and tufted ; 
legs, fore- and midtibiae thickly haired, the latter with one pair of spurs ; hindlegs 
smoothly scaled ; tibiae with two pairs of long spurs ; both wings broad and 
ample. Primary with costa slightly arched ; termen evenly excnrved. Secondaries 
full, long, depressed at anal angle. Neuration : primary with vein 3 before the 
angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from directly above the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 
7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked. Secondaries with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from directly 
above the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 
Type : Aneliopis alampeta B-B. 
115. Aneliopis alampeta sj)ec. nov. 
c?. Palpi, head, and thorax dark bronzy brown ; abdomen pale greyish brown. 
Primary darkish umber-brown ; a short blackish basal line ; sub-basal line broadly 
dentate, with a paler internal edging ; median blackish line very irregular, acutely 
internally angled about vein G ; postmedian dark line irregular, roughly parallel 
with the median line and palely edged ; a terminal row of small spear- head |dashes. 
Secondary uniform greyish brown. 
?. Like the male, but smaller, paler, and all the black lines much less 
prominent. 
Expanse : <? 40 ; ? 34 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra; Diuawa, August. 
Types in my collection. 
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IIC). Aneliopis albipuncta spec. nov. 
?. Head and thorax greyish brown; abdomen paler. Primary pale browri, 
somewhat irrorated finely with darker brown ; a short, fine blackish basal line ; 
sub-basal line fine, irregnlar ; postmedian line very irregular, receding to costa and 
inner margin ; subterminal line dentate, pale, edged internally with a series of 
blackish spots or short dashes ; termeu darkly dotted ; a whitish spot in the cell 
beyond the sub-basal line, followed by a blackish one, with a few whitish scales in 
it. Secondary uniform pale greyish brown. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
117. Aneliopis adelpha spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax ochreous brown ; abdomen paler. Primary darkish brown, 
closely irrorated with ochreous up to the postmedian line, and less so in the 
terminal area ; basal dark line roughly describing three-quarters of an irregular 
circle ; sub-basal line indistinct, produced outwards on the fold ; postmedian line 
serrate, produced forwards beyond the cell, palely edged externally ; subterminal 
line ochreous, with a dark edging between it and the postmedian line ; termen 
dotted with ochreous, with an internal, almost scalloped, blackish edging. 
Secondary pale greyish, with a trace of a short line at the anal angle ; termen 
dotted with ochreous, with a scalloped fine internal line. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
lis. Aneliopis trilineata spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax darkish brown ; abdomen grey. Primary olive-brown, with 
an indistinct ochreous basal line ; autemedian, postmedian, and subterminal lines 
ochreous, serrated, edged slightly with black ; two black spots in the cell ; termen 
with small dark spear-head spots. Secondary uniform pale dirty greyish. 
? . Like the male, but darker purpler brown, with the autemedian and 
subterminal line without serrations. 
Expanse : c? 46 ; ? 48 mm. 
Ilah. Dinawa, July. 
Type in my collection. 
Cristatopalpus gen. nov. 
S . Palpi with second segment reaching above the vertex, fringed with very 
long hair ; third segment with a large expanding tuft ; antennae bipeetinate ; eyes 
with thick long lashes, especially below ; legs, fore with femora and tibiae having 
long heavy tufts of hair; midtibiae smoothly haired; hindtibiae densely scaled, 
and having a flat pad of longish blackish hairs on the outer side, outside which 
is a long spreading fan-like tuft of fine hairs from the femoral joint. Neuration, 
vein 'i from near the middle of the cell, 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 from just 
above the angle, 6 from below the ujiper angle, ariole small, 7 from near the end 
of the ariole, 8, 9, and 10 stalked on a long stalk from the end of the ariole ; 
secondary with 3 and 4 stalked, o from just above the angle, and 7 from the 
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angle. Primar}' with costa straight, with an expandible tnft from near the base ; 
termen evenly rounded ; wings broad ; secondary with wings ample. 
Type : Cristatopalpus olivens B-B. 
110. Cristatopalpus olivens spec. nov. 
c?. Head and tliorax olivaceous greyish brown ; abdomen olive-grey. Primary 
pale olive-brown, with a blackish basal spot ; an irregular sub-basal pale line darker 
edged on each side, with a blackish <• shaped internal mark on the inner margin ; 
a pale dot in the cell, with two pale small spots at the end of the cell ; postmedian 
line irregalar, serrate, receding at the costa and inner margin : subterminal line 
very irregular, with a dark costal internal filling between it and the postmedian 
line; terminal area jialer, with a blackish patch between veins 4 and 5 ; termen 
with a fine crenulate dark line; fringes darkly intersected. Secondaries olive-grey, 
with a median and postmedian pale line darkly edged, and darkly filled in between 
a very fine crennlate terminal line. 
Expanse, 41 mm. 
Bab. Mount Kebea, Jnly, and Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
Systaticospora gen. nov. 
? . Palpi with tufts on the back of the second and third segments ; second 
segment long, reaching far above the vertex ; third long, curved backwards ; 
antennae with fine short hairs ; patagia raised into lateral thoracic tufts. 
Neuratiou, jirimary with veins 2 and 3 from before the angle, 4 and 5 from 
about the angle, 6 from just below the angle, 7, 8, and 9 stalked, 7 on a short one, 
8 and 9 on a long stalk, 9 and lU from the cell ; secondary with veins 3, 4, and 5 
from the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. Both wings broad and ample. 
Primary with costa slightly arched, depressed near apex ; termen evenly rounded. 
It is not ordinarily advisable to describe a genus from one sex, and especially 
the female ; but this is so evidently new that I cannot do otherwise. 
Type : Systaticospora orphnina B-B. 
120. Systaticospora orplinina spec. nov. 
? . Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish brown. Primary dark olive-brown, 
thickly irrorated with blackish ; a basal and sub-basal interrnpted black line ; a 
small black spot in the cell, with a minute white pnpil ; reniform outlined with 
black, with pale internal dash ; postmedian line black, strongly serrate ; subterminal 
line ochreous, edged with black on each side, with a black patch about veins 6 
and 7 ; termen dotted with ochreous, with internal black scallops. Secondary 
uniform dark greyish brown, with a fine black scalloped termen. 
Expanse, 60 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Megaloptera gen. nov. 
cJ. Palpi with second segment long, recurved over the liead, thickly but 
smoothly scaled ; third joint of moderate size, scaled ; antennae bipectinate ; legs, 
with all the femora, having a large spreading fringe of hair on each side; tibia 
smoothly scaled ; thorax with patagial crests formed of long fine straight hairs. 
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combined with shorter heavy spatulate scales. Neuration, primaries with vein 3 
from before the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from well above the angle, C> and 7 
forked on a short stalk, 8, 9, 10, and 11 free from the cell; cell short, broad, 
with a spurions cell at its upper apex formed by a short bar to near the middle 
of the discocellulars, the end of which has a deep pit corresponding with the 
heavy tuft of androconia on the npper side ; secondaries, cell very short, veins 3 
and 4 from the lower angle, 5 from jnst above, and 7 from the upper angle, 
8 free from the base. 
Type : Megaloptera lophota B-B. 
121. Megaloptera lophota spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and jjrimary uniform bronzy brown ; abdomen and secondaries 
uniform brown as the primary, but lacking the bronzy lustre. The cell of the 
primary is filled with reversed androconial hairs, and at the end of the cell there 
is a raised tuft of similar hairs, but heavily spatulate at the tips ; termen spotted 
with ochreous at the veins, and having a preceding dark scalloped edging ; a similar 
edging is just traceable in the secondary. 
Expanse, 71 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July ; Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
122. Mastigophorus (?) dinawa spec. nov. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark slate-brown ; both wings dark slate-grey, 
with a trace of a blackish autemedian line ; reniform blackish palely edged ; a trace 
of an indefinite median line ; postmedian line blackish, excurved and waved ; from 
this line to the termen the wing is darker and has a few scattered lavender scales 
on it. Secondary with a dark median line palely edged externally, and a trace of 
a snbtermiual paler line ; lavender scales scattered sparingly over the wing. 
Expanse, 28 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
123. Mastigophorus olivens spec. nov. 
(?. Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen olive-grey, the two latter spotted with 
black ; both wings olive-grey, with black markings. Primary with four costal 
spots, one near the base, two before the centre, one beyond it, a short dash in the 
cell ; antemedian spotted line interrupted, meeting the double oblique interrupted 
median line on the inner margin ; postmedian line serrate, incurved below 
vein 3, irregular, with a pale external edging; subterminal line irregular and 
interrupted; termen finely scallo|»ed. Secondary, with two inner-marginal dark 
small patches, between which is the irregular median line, outside the lower jjatch 
is the double postmedian spotted line ; termen darkly scalloped. 
Expanse, 28 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, Sejitember. 
Tyjje in my collection. 
124. Mastigophorus biagi spec. nov. 
c?. Palpi, head, and thorax dark reddish brown ; abdomen paler. Primary 
dark reddish brown, of a dark rusty tone, with a pale grey irregular antemedian 
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line ; postmediau Hue pale grey, irregnlar, siibcrenulate, projecteil outwards t)e}-ond 
the cell, receding on the fold ; a trace of a pale grey irregnlar dentate subterrainal 
line; termen narrowly black, with white dots; a whitish spot at the reniform. 
Secondary grey, with a median and postuiedian pale grey line ; termen dotted 
with whitish. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Ilab. Biagi, Mambare River. 
Type in my collection. 
125. Rejectaria albolineata spec. nov. 
i. Head, thora.K, palpi, abdomen, and both wings dirty greyish brown ; both 
wings withont any mark except that there is in both a snbterminal, narrow, 
straightish white line. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, February. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Insolentipalpus gen. nov. 
c?. First segment of palpi long, reaching to the vertex, long and heavily 
scaled ; second segment long, roughly scaled, scales shorter, curved over the head ; 
third segment moderately long, with a tuft of hairs on the inner side; antennae 
bijjectinate ; legs long, smoothly scaled. Neuration, primary with vein 2 from 
tlie centre of the cell, 3 in front of the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from jnst above 
the angle, 8 and 9 stalked from 7 before the end of the ariole, connected with 10 
by a short bar to form the ariole, 1 1 from the cell at a third from the base ; 
secondary, 2 from the centre of the cell, 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from directly 
above the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle ; wings, costa slightly arched, 
depressed at the apex ; termen evenly curved ; primary broad, expanding rapidly 
outwards ; secondary long, fairly ample. 
Type : Insolentipalpus ochreopuncf,ata B-B. 
12(3. Insolentipalpus ochreopunctata spec. nov. 
S- Head, palpi, and abdomen olive-grey; end segment of palpi with a tuft of 
fine white hairs. Primary olive-grey, with a basal black interrupted line ; an 
irregular antemedian black line ; median line obliquely confluent with the dark 
reniform, below which it is serrate; postmedian line serrate, receding at the costa, 
with a fine pale external edging; snbterminal dark line serrate, dotted with 
ochreous externally, finely dashed with ochreous at the termen, the dashes being 
edged internally with black spear-head marks. The reniform is palely edged and 
dotted externally with ochreous ; secondary grey, darker fur the outer half; a 
median dark line to the cell ; postmedian line excurved and serrate ; snbterminal 
line pale at the tornus, faintly traceable above ; termen with ochreons dashes 
between the veins, spotted internally with black ; fringes to both wings, tessellated 
ochreous and dark gre}'. 
Expanse, 29-30 mm. 
J lab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
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127. Falcimala aurea spec. nov. 
S. Palpi, bead, and thorax greenish olive-brown ; abdomen pale ochraceons 
grey. Primary greenish olive-brown, spotted with pale melallie gold; a largish 
spot at the base of the inner margin, witli a second beyond the middle, between 
which nearer the basal spot is another ; a spot at the end of the cell ; two spots 
below each other in the postmedian area, with one or two dots below the second ; 
a terminal series of small spots : all these spots are very irregnlar in shape and 
size ; fringes goldenish, darkly intersected ; secondary nniform pale rose-coloar 
with ochreons fringes. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Mambare River; Milne Bay. 
Type in my collection ; a single specimen in the British Museum from Milne 
Bay. 
128. Falcimala brunneistriga spec. nov. 
<?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish; terminal segments of the 
latter smoky. Primary pale brownish, with an erect dark antemedial line edged 
externally with whitish ; median pale line angled outside the reniform, which is 
faintly traceable (in my somewhat rnbbed specimen) ; subtermiual pale line inter- 
rupted and obscure below vein 4, with dark dashes between the veins. Secondary 
straw-yellow, with a very broad greyish-brown termen, in which is a subtermiual 
yellowish line. 
Expanse, 23 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August : Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Triug Museum. 
Ceilodiastrophon gen. nov. 
Palpi scaled, upturned ; second segment long, above the vertex ; third segment 
long, with a slight pencil of hairs on the inner side ; antennae with very short 
fine cilia, with evenly interspersed longer, very fine hairs. Legs, fore heavily 
clothed with hair, mid and hind naked. Neuration, cells short ; primary 
veins 4 and 5 from the lower angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle, 8, 9 and 10 
stalked on a long stalk ; secondary with 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 from the lower 
and upper angles, 5 from directly above the lower angle. lu the r? a heavy 
tuft of hair on the fold of the primary near the base, the base of costa 
produced into a short sharp shoulder with a tuft on its underside. 
Type : Ceilodiastrophon brunneum B-B. 
129. Ceilodiastrophon brunneum spec. nov. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen darkish brown. Primary entirely uniform 
dark brown, without any marks at all except two white points in the cell, one 
near the base and the other slightly larger at the end. Secondary slightly paler 
brown than in the primary, with the area above vein 6 pale greyish. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type iu my collection. 
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130 Hydrillodes aroa spec. nov. 
<J. Head, thorax, and abdomen pnrplish brown. Primary pale ochreons brown, 
with basal line broadly chocolate-brown ; reiiiform chocolate-brown ; postraeJial 
line clear pale cream colonr, with an ontward cnrve beyond the cell and an 
inward cnrve on the fold : beyond this line the whole of the area is chocolate- 
brown, with a short obliqne cnrved line to the costa before the apex and a trace 
of a snbterrainal row of pale spots. Secondary ochreons fawn colonr, with a 
median and postmedian dusting of pnrplish brown ; a slight dark fold along 
vein lb ; termen dark, with ochreons fringes. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Uab. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
131. Hydrillodes emmelodes spec. nov. 
(?. Palpi, head, and thorax sooty grey ; the third segment of the palpi is 
covered with a long pencil of fine hairs; abdomen brownish ; both, wings lavender- 
grey up to the oblique postmedial line, beyond which the colour is bronzy brown, 
shading into lavender-grey near the termen. Primary with a dark basal line, 
and an obliqne dark cloudy median line; cell closed by a subhyaline oval dash ; 
secondary with a dark oblique cloudy median line ; a snbterminal irregular row 
of five ochreons points ; termen of both wings finely dark. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
132. Hydrillodes mediochracea spec. nov. 
(J. Head and palpi dirty ochraceous ; thorax purplish brown ; abdomen brown. 
Primary with base purplish brown, sharply terminated in an erect oblique line ; 
median area dirty ochraceous, terminating in a postmedial pure ochraceous line, 
with a small acute angle at the lower angle of the cell ; the rest of the wing 
dark purplish brown, with a more or less distinct spotted ochreous snbterminal 
line with a small pale inward spot about vein 6 and a large one near the tornns ; 
termen with fine black dashes ; a dark dot at the reuiform. Secondary uniform 
brownish grey, with a dark spot closing the cell. 
Expanse : c? 34 ; ? 36 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, March and April, also June and July ; Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other sjiecimens in the Tring Museum. 
The cf of this species has a tuft of curved hairs on the underside of the 
secondaries along vein 4 beyond the cell. 
133. Hydrillodes funerea spec. nov. 
?. Palpi, head, and thorax dark purplish brown; abdomen somewhat paler. 
Primary with base dnsky ochraceous, terminating irregularly with a projection 
between the lower margin of the cell and vein lb ; the whole of the rest of the 
wing dark purplish brown, with a trace of an outwardly oblique irregular dentate 
postmedian line, and a similar waved snbterminal line rising in a small costal 
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whitish patch ; termen with a fine pale line, preceded by a series of blackish 
small lunular spots. Secondary nuiform darkish grey. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
134. Hydrillodes subalbida spec, no v. 
?. Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen dark russet-brown. Primary with the 
basal three-fifths rusty brown, the outer two-fifths dark purplish brown ; the former 
terminates with a paler rusty brown crenulate line, edged internally with a very 
fine darker crenulate line ; a trace of an irregular antemediau line ; a dark spot 
in the reniform, a series of subterminal white points. Secondary with the basal 
three-quarters white, and a white irregular line in the brownish terminal quarter 
rising from the tornus. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
135. Echana meeki spec. nov. 
cJ. Head, palpi, and thorax bronzy brown. Primary uniform dark brown, 
with a deep hairy pit beyond the cell up to the costa, outside which is a deep 
oblique fold into the tornus ; this fold assumes the form of a deep ridge exactly 
as if a piece of cotton had been drawn across the wing into a groove and the 
wing membrane had partially closed over it ; a broad patch of androconia below 
the cell. Secondary uniform brownish grey, the terminal third covered with 
somewhat shining short androconia. 
Expanse, 44 mm. 
Eab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Triug Museum. 
136. Echana dinawa spec. nov. 
c?. Head, palpi, and thorax cinnamon-brown; abdomen greyish. Primary 
cinnamon-brown, with a trace of an antemedian oblique line ; median line angled 
ontwards in the cell ; an obscure trace of a postmedian line ; termen darkly dotted ; 
fold distorted with a mass of grey scales and hairs below the end of the cell. 
Secondary uniform pale brownish with a small tuft of darker hairs in the cell. 
H . Like the male, but the primary without the distortion of the fold and the 
accompanying tuft ; basal line erect and irregularly waved ; two dark dots in the cell. 
Both sexes beneath are alike, the secondary having one longish dark dot in the 
cell, with a median and postmedian irregular curved line. 
Expanse, c? and ? 37-38 mm. 
IJab. Dinawa, August and September. 
Type in my collection. 
137. Echana owgarra spec. nov. 
cj. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey. Primary ochreons grey, 
with a fine very oblique black basal line, an angled black median line lost in the 
contortion and scales of the fold, a trace of a postmedian line arising in a pale costal 
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dash ; termen very strongly arched with prominent black spots. Secondary very 
pale greyish, with a pencil of fine hairs along the centre of the cell and a patch 
tif fine slightly shining audroconia beyond it between veins 2 and 5 ; nnderside 
with a small spot, followed by a large one in the cell, with a median and 
postmedian line. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra, Upper Aroa River. 
Type in my collection. 
138. Echana nigra spec. nov. 
i. Head, pal])i, thorax, and abdomen Idackish ; thorax barred with rusty 
brown. Primary black, with a basal, median, and postmedian white costal spot, 
the two latter being the origin of their respective lines, which, however, are almost 
quite obscured ; reuiform marked by a deep black spot ; termen strongly arched and 
dotted with deep black. Secondary dark grey, with an ochreous pale grey pencil 
along the cell, followed by a patch of pale grey androconia. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra, Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection, a ? in the Tring Museum. 
139. Echana kebea spec. nov. 
Section with costal fold at end of cell. 
S. Head and thorax pale chocolate-brown. Primary pale cbocolate-brown, 
with a trace of a basal line, a pale serrate median line below the costal fold, and 
a fine dentate pale snbterminal line. Secondary whitish, somewhat hyaline, pale 
pinkish brown at the apex and termen, tapering rapidly to vein 2. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, June. 
Type in my collection. 
Echanella gen. nov. 
(?. Antennae with a swelling and small tuft at a third from the base; palpi 
strongly curved backwards, with second segment long well over the head ; third 
segment moderate, both thickly scaled ; legs, fore with femora heavily scaled ; a tuft 
of hairs at the tarsal joint ; mid and hind smoothly scaled. A strong contortion 
at the end of the cell affecting the wing right across ; a fine basal costal fold. 
Neuration, primary with veins 3 and 4 from the angle, .5 from just above the 
angle, 6 from near the middle of the discocellnlars, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 
11 short, converging into 12, which (latter) is waved and contorted; secondary, 
cell short, veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 stalked, 5 from just above the angle. 
Type : Echanella ■purpurea B-B. 
140. Echanella purpurea spec. nov. 
cJ. Head and thorax purplish brown ; abdomen chocolate-grey. Primary dark 
purplish brown, lustrous in the contorted area ; base fawn-brown, terminating 
irregularly with a strong acute angle along the lower margin of the cell ; postmedian 
fawn line fine from below the costal heavy tuft of scales ; from this tuft a fawn stripe 
to the terffiep about vein 7 ; a fine obscure subterminal irregular line rising in 
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a whitish costal lanular mark ; termen dotted with velvety black. Secondary 
brownish grey. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
JIah. Diuawa, September ; Area River. 
Type in my collection. 
Cellacrinata gen. nov. 
(?. Pal])i with second segment above vertex; third segment long, very heavily 
tnfted for three-tif'ths ; apex curved upwards, naked ; antennae fine with very fine 
short cilia; legs, fore with femora tufted, tibiae heavily tnfted, mid pair tufted 
on femora and tibia, hind legs nearly bare, with two pairs of spurs ; wings, 
primary costa depressed in centre, termen evenly rounded. Neuration, primary 
with cell very short, veins 3, 4, and .5 stalked, 6, 7, 8, 0, and 10 stalked, from 
behind the discocellulars, 9 and 10 very short, 11 absent ; secondary with 3 and 4 
and and 7 stalked, 5 from jnst below the middle of the discocellulars. Primary 
with costa produced into a shoulder at the base, but without any hairs. Secondary 
witli an androconial fold along the cell, beyond which is a thick mass of androconial 
hairs to half-way towards the termen. 
Type : Celiac linata grisea B-B. 
141. Cellacrinata grisea spec. nov. 
(?. Palpi and head ochreous grey ; tuft on third segment rich chocolate-brown ; 
thorax chocolate-brown ; abdomen greyish. Primary pale ochreous grey, sparingly 
dusted all over with pale chocolate-brown, except in the terminal area, which is 
entirely pale chocolate-brown ; an antemedial dark line interrupted at the veins 
with a paler internal edging ; a dark spot in the reniform ; an ochreous obscure 
Bubterminal series of small spots, that on the costa being larger and whitish. 
Secondary uniform chocolate-grey. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
Cheillophota gen. nov. 
6. Palpi thickly scaled; first segment long ; second shorter, curved strongly 
over the head, third segment with a long pencil of tine hairs ; antennae with long 
bijiectinations ; thorax with crested patagia and crested metathorax ; legs nearly 
bare. Neuration, primary with vein 3 from directly below the angle, 4 and 5 from 
the angle, 6 from just below the upper angle, 7 stalked with 8 and 10, stalked 
from 8, a fold lying along and beyond the cell, with tufts of hairs at its extremity, 
a deep contortion below the cell causing a falcate projection of the inner margin in 
front of the tornus, androconial hairs on the under surface and a thick covering 
with terminal tuft on the upper surface ; secondary with veins 3 and 4 also 6 and 7 
stalked, 5 from just above the lower angle ; on the upperside a patch of short 
androconia beyond the cell. 
Type : Cheillophota costistrigata B-B. 
142. Cheillophota costistrigata spec. nov. 
(J. Palpi and collar dark rusty brown ; terminal pencil ochreous ; thorax dark 
purplish brown. Primary with a broad pale ochreous costal stripe, dusted with pale 
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rnsty scales ; rest of wing sepia-brown, except the hairs and tnft below the cell, which 
are purplish brown ; termen darkly spotted. Secondary nnifonn greyish brown, with 
a trace of a median waved line ; nudersnrftice of secondary with a dark cell-spot, 
followed by a waved dark median and postmedian line. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hub. Kebea Range, Jnly. 
Type in my collection. 
Pseudogyrtona gen. nov. 
Palpi scaled short, uptnrued ; second.segment not reaching to the vertex ; end 
segment small, obli(jue ; antennae minutely ciliate, with longer equally fine hairs ; 
wings, primary long, narrowish. Neuration, primary, vein 2 from the middle 
of the cell, 4 from the angle, 5 from close to the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 
7, 8 and U stalked, 7 nearly midway from the ariole, 8 and 9 close to the apex, 10 
from the ariole ; secondary with veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 from their respective 
angles, 5 from below the middle of the discocellnlars. 
Type : Psetidogtjrtonafuhana B-B. 
143. Pseudogyrtona fulvana spec. nov. 
3 . Head and thorax tawny brown ; abdomen with a greyish tinge. Primary 
uniform tawny brown, with a trace of an interru}}ted antemedian line ; a small 
whitish wedge-shaped spot in the cell, confluent with the ])ale chestnnt reniform ; 
a trace of an interrupted postmedian spotted line, and a more distinct subtermiual 
line rising in a whitish costal snbapical spot ; termen darkly pointed, the points 
preceded by a pale tawny short dash. iSecondary uniform greyish brown. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Jlab. Dinawa, August and September ; Aroa River, February and March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
144. Pseudogyrtona aroa sjiec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax ochreous grey. Primary pale ochreous grey, with an 
irregular dark brown antemedian line, and a dark waved postmedian line, these two 
lines being connected below tlie cell by a dark curved line, above which is a broad 
luuular pale mark to the costa, enclosing the darkly outlined reniform stigma, which 
is not reniform but spherical ; a dark fine indefinite liuo almost adjoining the 
postmedian ; subtermiual waved dark line edged externally by a pale line ; termen 
darkly edged by a fine scalloped line. Secondary uniform pale greyish. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Catadoides gen. nov. 
Palpi sickle-shaped, each of the segments long, of nearly equal length, the 
second reaching over the top of the head, all roughly scaled ; antennae of male 
bipectinate, with tine cilia ; pectinations tapering at about two-thirds rapidly up 
to the tip ; legs almost naked ; midtibiae flattened with a short tuft at the tarsal 
joint, one pair of spurs ; hindtibiae with two pair of spurs ; those at the tarsal joint 
minute ; thorax roughly scaled ; patagia slightly raised. Neuration, primary with 
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vein 3 from before tlie angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from just above the angle, from 
below the upper angle ; ariole most minute, formed by the anastomosis of 8 and 10, 
7 from the end of the ariole, 8, 9 and 10 stalked; secondary with 3 and 4 stalked. 
5 from directly above the angle, and T stalked. 
Type : Catadoides punctata B-B. 
145. Catadoides punctata .spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax ochreous, with the scales on the head and collar tipped with 
brown ; both the wings pale ochreous. Primary with a dark dot in the cell, followed 
by a larger one at the end, touching which internally is a faint trace of an oblique 
dark line ; postmedian line evanescent, dotted, waved ; subtermiaal waved line 
whitish, preceded by a row of dark dots on its inner margin, and with a faint dark 
e.xternal edging ; termeu darkly dotted. Secondary with all the markings of the 
primary repeated, but the median line is distinct, and from the faiat postmedian 
line the outer area has more or less suffusion of pinkish brown scales. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Ilab. Diuawa, August and SejJtember. 
Type in my collection. 
14(i. Nodaria dinawa spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown ; palpi dark brown; legs dark 
brown. Primary greyish brown, with a trace of a very oblique, strongly serrated 
basal line ; a curved antemedian dark line crossing an ochreous small cell spot ; an 
obscure median band of dark shading across the dark brown reniform ; a trace of a 
postmedian line ; a distinct subterminal dark line of shading, edged externally 
somewhat palely. Secondary greyish brown, with a waved median and postmedian 
line, the later with a pale e.xternal edging. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
147. Nodaria pratti spec. nov. 
c?. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous grey. Primary pale 
ochreous grey, minutely irrorateJ with darker grey, very sparingly on the basal and 
median areas, but plentifully in the terminal area ; a trace of an angled antemedian 
double darkish line ; a dark point at the end of the cell, followed by an obscure 
oblique darkish postmedian line, beyond which is an indistinct curved row of dark 
dots, a trace of a scalloped pale subterminal line ; termen finely dark. Secondary 
pale cream colour, irrorated slightly on the fold, more plentifully at the termen ; 
termen finely dark. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August and September ; Aroa River, .January and February. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
148. Nodaria kebeae spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax pale ciunamon-brown ; abdomen ochreous brown. Primary 
cinnamon-brown, with roughly parallel ochreous antemedian, median, and post- 
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median lines ; costa narrowly ochreons ; termen finely ochreons. Secondary pale 
yellow, slightly cinnamon at the tornus, in which is a yellow dash. 
Expanse, 43 mm. 
Ilab. Kebea Range, March and April ; Aroa lliver. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
149. Catada ocellata spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax brownish grey ; abdomen greyish. Primary greyish 
brown, with a broad median dentate darker band ; a very broad similar post- 
median band projected outwards about vein 5, with the outer edge snbserrate; a 
]iale serrate subtermiiial line; a whitish -=: shaped mark at the end of the cell ; 
termen finely ochreons. Secondary greyish brown, with a short angled subtornal 
dark dash with a pale external edging ; between veins 2 and 4 a black ocellus with 
a white pupil and a pale tawny external edging ; termen finely ochreous. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Hab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
150. Catada alboapicalis spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish brown. Primary blackish brown, 
with the basal half tinged with reddish ; an antemedian and median waved 
metallic lead-coloured line ; a large triangular snow-white apical patch broadly 
edged internally with black ; termen tawny, edged internally below the white 
patch with metallic lead colour ; termen with black points. Secondary sooty 
grey, with a short tawny zigzag median line, with a tawny patch at each angle 
and an ocellus outside the upper patch ; termen tawny, edged internally with 
metallic lead colour ; termen with black points. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum ; one specimen also in the British Bluseum. 
101. Catada variegata spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax pale cinnamon-brown ; abdomen greyish sooty brown. 
Primary pale cinnamou-browu, with a small basal costal deej) sepia-brown spot, 
a dark sepia median large inner marginal patch, above which is a small dark 
sepia spot with a costal patch over it ; a very large jiostmedian irregular deep 
sepia patch, edged above by a curved pale cinnamon dash about vein 7, over which 
is a costal similarly coloured smaller patch ; area from the dark patch to the 
termen dark greyish, with a paler reddish-brown curved irregular subterminal 
line and a dark sepia subajjical costal patch ; termen with dark points. Secondary 
pale yellow, with termen very broadly, irregulary blackish. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
152. Catada sanguinea spec. nov. 
cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale creamy grey. Primary pale creamy 
greyish, with a dark basal point on the cell margin ; a point on both cell 
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margins near the middle, and another pair at the end ; an oblique darker band 
of shading from in front of the apex on the costa to a third from the base on 
the inner margin, where tliere is a shurtisli blood-red dash in the shaded band ; 
a waved deep red spotted sabterminal line, edged internally with whitish, with 
an external band of darker shading from tlie termen below the apex to near 
the tornns ; termen darkly spotted. Secondary pinkish. 
? . Very much darker grey (though the males are somewhat worn), with the 
red dash and spotted line much accentuated, being quite sanguineous. 
Expanse : c? 24 ; ? 26 mm. 
Hall. Area River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
153. Heterogramma biangulata spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and abdomeu dark brown, with a fine white line at tlie 
second abdominal segment. Primary with the base pale brown up to the irregular 
tine autemedian line ; median area dark brown from the cell to the inner margin ; 
reniform marked by a dark dash, with a pale external edge ; an irregular indis- 
tinct dark fine postmedian line ; subterminal line dark, edged externally with 
whitish, prominently angled twice ; beyond this the terminal area is paler. 
Secondary greyish brown, with a median and subterminal dark irregular line, the 
latter edged finely with white in the tornal area. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
This sjiecies is near //. lapmlis Wlk. 
154. Lysimelia aroa spec. nov. 
(J. Head and thorax pale brown; abdomen darker brown. Primary pale 
brown, with a fine dentate dark antemedian line, a fine dark strongly serrate 
postmedian line, a fine irregular somewhat dotted dark subterminal line, with a 
fine small angle just below the apex, and a dark terminal dash above tlie tornus ; 
termen darkly dotted, the dots with a whitish external edging. Secondary palish 
brown, with an indistinct median line and a distinct subterminal line, edged 
externally with whitish in the tornal area. 
Expanse, 22 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August ; Aroa River, January. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
155. Olulis rosacea spec. nov. 
?. Head and thorax pale creamy fawn colour; abdomen pink, i'rimary pale 
lawn colour, with the outer two-thirds of the cell creamy ; a trace of a double 
scalloped median line, followed by a trace of a similar postmedian line ; a sub- 
terminal series of dark spots ; termen very finely dark ; four black minute spots 
on the costa beyond the cell ; reniform just visible. Secondary uniform pinkish, 
with a fine series of blackish subterminal spots ; termen finely dark. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
JIab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
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Olulodes gen. nov. 
Palpi oliliqnely erect, long, heavily scaled ; second segment with a long brnsh 
on its njipcrside ; end segment small ; antennae fine, with minute fine cilia. 
Wings, primary of even width ; costa curved jnst beyond the base, then straight 
to the apex ; termeu excised from the acute apex, produced from veins 5 to 3, 
receding below ; scalloped ; secondary small ; termen scalloped produced below 
apex, from where it recedes. Neuratiou as in Olulis, except that veins 7, 8, 
9, and 10 are stalked, T and 10 from the same point midway from the cell, 8 and 
9 from close to the apex ; secondary, veins 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from 
well above the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 
Type : Olulodes pulchra B-B. 
156. Olulodes pulchra spec. nov. 
? . Palpi dark mauve ; head and thorax mauve-grey ; abdomen pinkish 
ochreous. Primary lavender-grey, with a restricted tawny ochreous base ; a trace 
of an antemediau and median line ; postmedian whitish line more distinct, 
excurved beyond the cell, from whence it recedes rapidly ; a broad band of 
indefinite ochreous follows ; snbterminal tawny dotted line roughly parallel ; 
termen darker beyond this line, a dark apical cloud, and a dark tawny patch on 
the inner margin at the subterminal line. Secondary ochreous grey, fading into 
lavender-grey, with a tawny patch at the anal angle. 
Expanse, 22 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Mn.seum. 
157, Singara ochreoplagata spec. nov. 
c?. Palpi, head, and thorax chocolate-brown ; abdomen greyish brown. Primary 
chocolate-brown ; antemedial line dark, waved ; postmedial line erect, slightly 
curved, angled round the ochreous reniform to the costa pale lavender-grey, edged 
externally by a dark line ; in the reniform some dark scales, a trace of an ochreous 
serrate interrupted line ; between this and the postmedian line the area is mostly 
slate-grey. Secondary chocolate-grey up to the lavender-grey median line, darkly 
edged externally ; the rest of the wing slatey grey ; subterminal line dotted ochreous. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
158. Singara ochreostrigata spec. nov. 
i. Palpi, head, and thorax rufous; abdomen rufous grey. Primary rufous 
brown, with a darker waved antemedian line; a broad ochreous postmedian line, 
darkly edged externally ; a waved more or less interrupted subterminal line, 
broad above vein 5, narrow below it ; termen finely dotted with ochreous ; 
reniform pale ochreous. Secondary dark greyish, with a broad ochreous median 
serrate line and a narrow irregular obscure postmedian line. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, February. 
Type in my collection. 
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Temnoptera gen. nov. 
Head and thorax ronghly scaled ; palpi nptnrned, long, and roughly scaled ; 
eud segment naked ; antennae long, with very fine short cilia ; legs, forelegs 
with the tibiae roughly scaled with long hairs, a horuy cliitinous hook from 
its socket with the femora ; midleg with long heavy tufts of coarse carled scales 
on the femora and tibiae, tibiae with one pair of spines; hindlegs with hairy 
tibiae having two pairs of long strong spines. Nenlation : primary with vein 3 
from near the angle, 4 and 5 from the angle or its close vicinity, 6 from below 
the upper angle, 7 from just beyond the angle, 8, 9, and 10 stalked from 7, the two 
former near the apex, the latter from nearer the angle than the apex, 11 from near 
the middle of the cell, strongly depressed so as to nearly touch 7, rising to the 
costa just in front of 10 ; secondary with 4 and 6 from the lower angle, 5 and 6 
from the upper angle, a large patch of androconia from vein la to 3. Primary 
with wings long, wide, of moderately even width ; costa nearly straight ; termen 
with a slight, even curve ; inner margin produced into a slight arch a third from 
the base. Secondary triangular, with the termen truncated, quite straight from 
apex to vein 1 ; costa slightly arched upwards. 
Type : Temnoptera meeki B-B. 
159. Temnoptera meeki spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax ochreous brownish grey, the thorax having a dark patch 
on the centre and the patagia ; both wings ochreous brownish grey, with dark 
brown bars and patches. Primary with two or three dark spots and speckles 
at the base ; a very broad antemediau dark bar below the cell, followed by a second 
similar one ; a dark patch in front of the toruus, bisected by an ochreous line 
between veins 1 and 3 ; a subterminal spot between veins 3 and 4, edged by an 
ochreous line ; a subapical patch between veins 6 and 8, bisected by a twice-scalloped 
ochreous line ; a small dark spot in tbe cell, with a dark patch at the end of the 
cell, bisected by a curved ochreous line; termen darkly spotted, the spots with 
ochreous external edging. Secondary with a dark postmedian bar edged externally 
with an ochreous line ; preceding this is a trace of a median patch ; between veins 
3 and 4 a dark spot edged externally with an ochreous line ; termen darkly spotted, 
spots with ochreous external edging ; the wings are more or less irrorated with 
dark rough scales, and the ochreous veins interrupt all the markings. 
Expanse, 54 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Cyttaralopha gen. nov. 
Palpi obliquely porrect, tufted on the upper side, long, reaching above the 
vertex, end joint lougish, naked ; antennae finely and minutely bipectinate ; legs 
with hairy tibiae ; hindtibiae broadly flattened and inflated, with a heavy tuft of 
hairs. Neuration : primary with cell very short, veins 3, 4, and 5 in male 
converging at three-quarters and lying almost touching each other to the lower 
angle, 6 from the upper angle, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked; secondary with two 
internal veins ; veins 2, 3, 4, and 5 from the lower angle of the cell, the three 
latter stalked from one point, and bent upwards from beyond the cell, which is 
very short and broadish ; veins G and 7 from the upper angle, tlie former bent 
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deeply down to thrce-qnarters from 7, cnrved sharply ronnd, bnt wideninjc upwards 
slitrhtly from voiii o at the tcrmen ; vein 8 bent down close to the base and touching 
7, then bent suddenly upwards in a bold curve towards the costa, terminating just 
below the apex ; both wings very broad and ample. Primary, costa with a bold 
curve to the centre ; a short suddeu depression, followed by a bolder curve to the 
apex ; termen receding very slightly from the apex ; inner margin with a deepish 
curve outwards from the base. Secondary, costa with a bold outward curve 
to its middle, receding from thence rapidly to the somewhat acute apex ; termen 
obliquely straight to vein 2, below which it is straightly truncated to the angle. 
Primary below, with the costa fringed with long hair to the middle. Secondary 
with a heavy curled tuft of coarse long scales, the upper portion of the wing 
covered with androconia and the cell with an androconial-tafted excrescence. 
Type : Cyttamloplm loxographa B-B. 
160. Cyttaralopha loxographa spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax dark sepia-browu ; abdomen dark fawn browny grey. 
Primary dirty fown-brown, with the base bark sejiia-brown, receding raj)idly 
basewards from the cell ; a broad oblique dark sepia-brown median band, from 
whence the outer area of the wing is more or less covered with short oblique 
fine dark striae ; a broad excnrved dark sepia-brown band from in front of the 
apex to a third from the tornus, the band being quite indefinite as to its outer 
margin ; termen dark grey from the baud aforementioned. Secondary with upper 
half of wing to vein 6 creamy opalescent in certain lights ; lower portion of wing 
fawn brownish, with dark sepia oblique fine striae and a dark oval spot about 
the middle of vein 5. The curled tuft on the costa below is dark chocolate- 
brown. 
Expanse, 5.5 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tiing Museum. 
Ifil. Camptocliilus cinnamomeus spec. nov. 
S. Section with antennae with very minute fine cilia with rather longer fine 
bristles. Palpi dark slate-grey; head and thorax pale cinnamon colour; collar 
edged and bisected with slate-grey ; abdomen cinnamon. Primary pale dull 
cinnamon, with antemedian fine oblique line to vein \b; median and post- 
median lines darkish, slightly curved basewards, colour lietween the two first 
lines pale ocbreons ; area beyond the jMstmedian paler cinnamon ; the least 
trace of a somewhat waved subterminal line, beyond which the terminal area is 
darker, with a dark cloud at the tornus, in which is a short irregular lavender- 
grey dash. The whole of the wing has the appearance of being very finely 
irroratcd. Secondary ochreous, with a trace of antemedian, median, and post- 
median dark fine lines ; subterminal area broadly dark grey ; fringes ochreous to 
about vein 4, greyish below. 
?. Like the male, but more ochreous, and with all the Hues strongly 
accentuated. 
Expanse : cJ 40 ; ? 50 mm. 
IJab. Ekeikei, Aroa River, March and April. 
Type in my collection ; other si)ecimens in the Tring Museum. 
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162. Camptochilus rufus spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufons brown. Primary uniform red-bi'owa, 
lighter red in the postmedian area, witli a small blackish spot at the end of the 
cell. Secondary uniform greyish browu. 
Expanse, 42 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Mnsenm. 
Plinthopa gen. nov. 
Palpi obliquely porrect, scaled; second segment long, reaching above the 
vertex, with a slight pencil of hairs on the upper side ; end segment small ; 
antennae almost simple, the cilia being so extremely short and fine; legs scaled. 
Neuration : primary with veins 4 and 5 from the lower angle of the cell, G from 
the upper angle, 7, 8, and 9 stalked, 10 and 11 from the cell; secondary, 3 
from before the angle, 4 and 5 from the angle, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 lying almost 
along 7 to well bej'ond the origin of ; cell very short. Primary with costa 
depressed at base and apex, excurved between ; apex acute ; termen excavated 
below ajiex produced outwards at vein 5 ; wing broad. Secondary ample ; termen 
slightly excavated below apex. This description is taken from a female. 
Type : Plintkopa rurhni B-B. 
163. Plinthopa rubra spec. nov. 
?. Head dark grey; thorax bright red ; abdomen greyish brown. Primary 
with base to antemedian line bright red ; a short oblique dark basal line ; post- 
median line dark crenulate, excurved below the costa ; cell closed by a dark spot ; 
area between this line and the antemedian reddish grey; a dark broadish, nearly 
erect, slightly curved subterminal line in a grey area ; terminal area reddish grey, 
the wing more or less finely irrorated with black. Secondary uniform greyish 
brown, with a terminal band of reddish. 
Expanse, 48 mm. 
Hah. Ekeikei, January and February ; Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
104. Corcobara lutea spec. nov. 
Piilpi rusty brown laterally, pale grey on the upper side ; thorax cinnamon- 
grey ; abdomen yellow. Primary rnsty brown, with a sub-costal row of black dots 
above the cell ; a dark line from the upper angle of the cell bent upwards to 
the apex before its centre ; an obscure, dark, strongly angled postmedian line 
receding very obliquely from its angle about vein 6 to the inner margin ; beyond 
this the area is darker from vein 3 to the dark line already mentioned, up to 
which it tapers rapidly ; subterminal area paler ; termen dark rusty brown ; the 
costal area is tinged with lilac ; the whole of the wing is more or less irrorated 
with rusty scales ; reniform with a dark spot at its lower margin. Secondary 
uniform spotless ochre-yellow. 
Expanse, 04 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River. 
Type in my collection. 
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105. Marapana punctitoma spec. nov. 
c?. Head and tliora.x pale cinuamon-browii ; abdomen pinkish. Primary pale 
cinnamon-browu, more or less densely irrorated with dark grey ; two blacki.sh points 
in the cell, one at the middle and one at the lower angle ; a trace of a broad stripe 
of the dark irrorations from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, edged 
externally by an obliipie row of fine black points ; a largish dark spot close to the 
tornus ; a subterminal row of fine black points. Secondary pinkish, with a dark spot 
at the tornus and a subterminal row of black dots. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
llab. Dinawa, July and August. 
Type in my collection. 
106. Marapana ekeikei spec. nov. 
S . Head and thorax pale creamy grey ; abdomen cinnamon-grey. Primary jiale 
creamy grey, slightly irrorated with grey ; two black points at the end of the cell, 
the lower one the larger of the two ; a trace of an oblique line of black points from 
the apex, followed by a baud of pale ground colour; termen with black points. 
Secondary pale cream colour, somewhat pinkish below vein 6 ; termen dotted with 
very distinct blackish dots ; underside witli a distinct black dot in the cells of 
both wings. 
Expanse, 37 mm. 
llulj. Ekeikei, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
167. Marapana angulata spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax pale cream colour ; abdomen darker. Primary very pale 
washed-out straw colour, with a short obliipie dark dash from vein \b to the cell ; 
four dark parallelogramic points at the end of the cell ; a postmedian strongly 
angled pinkish indefinite band, angled beyond the cell about vein o, followed 
by an interrupted fine dark crenulate line ; a dark spot on vein 3 near the termen ; 
three black sjiort costal dashes in front of the apex. Secondary pinkisli, pale 
creamy above the cell ; a dark spot at the end of the cell ; termen broadly grey ; 
underside, primary pinkish, with a broad dark angled postmedian line ; secondary 
pale creamy, with a dark cell-spot and a trace of a dark postmedian line. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
168. Marapana bilineata spec. nov. 
i. Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings brick-red, tinged with pink. 
Primary darker than secondary, with two paler oblique lines, the postmedian 
being more oblique than the antemedian; a trace of an irregular subterminal line 
of paler ground colour ; termen with black points ; a black dot at the end of the 
cell. Secondary with an oblique paler median line ; termen with black points. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hall. Dinawa, Augu.it and September; Aroa River, January and February ; 
and other localities. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
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169. Marapana pulchra spec. nov. 
c?. Head and throax olive-grey; collar tipped with white; abdomen white, with 
olive-grey dorsum. Primary olive-grey np to the reniform, receding somewhat 
to the inner margin ; beyond this pale lilac, irrorated slightly with olive-grey np 
to the pale pinkish oblique postmedian line ; area be3'ond this line olive-grey, 
paler and mixed with lilac at the termen ; a trace of a pale pinkish serrated 
snbtcrminal line ; reniform palely edged with two dark olive dots ; termen with 
dark points. Secondary exactly similar to the primary. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Avirostrum gen. nov. 
Palpi very long, porrect, thickly scaled, end segment small ; thorax and 
abdomen smoothly scaled ; legs, tibiae heavily scaled ; wings, primary tapering 
to broad ; costa nearly straight, depressed before apex ; termen excised below 
apex to a projection at vein 4, whence it recedes to the tornns ; secondary with 
termen crennlate, slightly angled at vein 4. Neiiration : primary with vein 4 from 
the angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 7, 8, 9, and lU stalked, 
the first from the end of the ariole, the three latter on a long stalk ; secondary 
with veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 from their respective angles, 5 from below the 
middle of the discocellnlars. 
Type : Avirostrum pratti B-B. 
170. Avirostrum pratti spec. nov. 
(?. Head and collar pale fawn-brown, darkly speckled ; thorax and abdomen 
brownish. Primary pale dull madder-brown, with a short dark basal line, a distinct 
dark antemedian and median line roughly parallel angled near the costa, receding 
basewards in a slight curve to the inner margin ; postmedian line obscnre, roughly 
parallel to the preceding lines ; subtermiiial line dark, oblique ; an ochreous terminal 
patch from vein 5 to 2 (this patch is occasionally almost absent) ; a whitish dot in 
the cell ; two dark dots at the end of the cell. Secondary, base somewhat ochreous ; 
a dark madder-brown irregular median band, ]ireceded by a dark basal line; a broad 
ochreous postmedian band edged externally by an oblique rusty subterminal line; 
the ochreous band is bisected by a fine dark line excurved at veins 3 and 4 ; apex 
with a dark madder-grey jjatch, below which is an ochreous patch ; a whitish sjwt 
in the cell. 
?. Entirely ochreous, with dark lines ; the secondary has also dark median 
and apical areas. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Ilab. Dinawa, August, March, and April ; also other localities, including the 
Aroa liiver. 
Type ill my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
171. Avirostrum ochraoeum spec, nov 
$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale tawny ochreous. Primary pale ochreoUsj 
finely speckled in parts, with autcmcdiau, median, and postmedian dark lines, the 
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median being most distinct, all excnrved; below the costa ; a tawny subterminal 
line, with an outer angled purplish line and a large darkish apical patch. 
Secondary ochreons, somewhat speckled, with a broadisb tawny snbterraiiial line, 
from which the whole terminal area is slate-coloared, with a dark angled fine 
line bisecting it. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March and April ; Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Mnsenm. 
1T2. Avirostrum pallens spec. uov. 
?. Palpi, head, and thorax pale cream colonr ; abdomen deep cream colour. 
Primary pale creamy white, with a broad purplish grey diffused curved basal line, 
a waved excnrved diffused median and postmedian line, rather deeper in colour 
than the ground ; a dark purjilish brown irregnlar wavy subterminal line, beyond 
which the whole of the area is purplish grey mixed with purplish rusty colonr, with 
a paler large irregnlar costal patch ; fringes rusty brown. Secondary pale creamy 
white, with a manve-grey broad costal border and a similar coloured basal line ; 
a median and i)ostmedian wavy grey line ; a fine waved whitish subterminal 
line from the apex to vein 6, where it meets an excurved deep crimson terminal 
liue, to above vein 2, from whence the white waved line is continued into the angle ; 
a rnsty spot between veins 6 and 7 in frout of the white line, outside which line 
the termen is manve-grey, with a similar colouring at the anal angle. 
Expanse, 28 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August ; Aroa River, February. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
Marapana modesta Swinhoe belongs to this genus; also falc/tcitia \\'a.vT. 
should form a section of the same. 
173. Rhynchina aroa spec. nov. 
S- Head and thorax umber-brown ; abdomen greyish brown. Primary umber- 
brown, with a black dot below the cell, and another in the cell above and beyond it ; 
a slightly dusky dash between them outwards ; au irregnlar oblique j)Ostmediau line ; 
an oblique dark stripe of shading from the apex to the postmedian line near the 
inner margin; termen with internervnlar dark dashes, with a pale inner edn-e. 
Secondary uniform dark greyish brown. 
Exjianse, 33 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
1T4. Rhynchina meeki spec. nov. 
{?. Head and thorax msset-brown ; abdomen pale greyish. Primary darkish 
brown, with the inner margin below the cell broadly pale rusty brown ; a dark dot 
in the cell, below which is a dark outward dash ; a very irregular fine blackish 
double postmedian line ; rcniform between them slightly rusty ; a whitish apical 
patch extoudiug downwards obli(inely in a short tapering dash, outside which is a 
dark indefinite oblique dash, with three whitish dots beyond it, one on veins 2, 3, 
ond 4, each being edged internally with blackish ; termen with a dark interrupted 
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Bcalloped line edged finely internally with whitish. Secondary nniforni pale 
brownish grey ; termen with a fine dark line. 
Expanse, 28 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Mnsenm. 
175. Rhynchina ides spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax mottled greyish; abdomen pale greyish. Primary irro rated 
slaty grey, with an olive costal streak ; antemedian pale waved line edged finely 
internally with olive, with a pale whitish basal dash in the cell ; postniedian line 
slightly waved, whitish, edged finely internally with olive ; a dark dash on the 
lower margin of the cell, with a whitish edging above ; a carved, slightly oblique 
white line from the apex to the inner margin in front of the tornus, edged internally, 
broadly, and indefinitely, with olive ; termen finely white. Secondary uniform greyish 
brown, with a short ochreous dash, 2 and 4 laterally edged with brown ; termen 
very finely white, edged internally finely with olive. 
Expanse, 29 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, January. 
Type in the Tring Mnsenm. 
This sijecies has bipectinated antennae, and has a heavy pencil of hairs on the 
underside of the primary along the lower margin of the cell. 
176. Plumipalpia tripunctata spec. nov. 
? . Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale cinnamon-brown. Primary pale cinna- 
mon-brown, with a dark horizontal streak from the base along the upjjcr margin of 
the cell into the apex ; the dark area expands from the cell more or less outwards to 
about vein 2 ; three blackish small raised sjaots in the median area, two in the cell 
and one below the cell ; a postmedian row of minute black points ; a pale streak 
above the dark one from the apex to beyond the spotted row, broadest by the black 
points. Secondary uniform pale greyish brown. 
Expanse, 37 mm. 
Hah. Owgarra, Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
177. Hypena medionigra spec. nov. 
$. Head and thorax very dark brown; abdomen sooty brown, with darker 
dorsal tufts. Primary very dark velvety brown np to the waved pale postmedian 
line; a trace of an antemedian pale line, beyond which the area is darkest; the 
postmedian and subterminal areas not velvety nor quite so dark, with a trace of 
a black spotted deeply waved subterminal line ; a slight dark snbapical cloud on 
the termen. Secondary uniform dark sooty brown ; underside greyish brown ; 
both wings with a trace of a median darker line. Primary with a single white 
snbapical dot below the costa. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Bah. Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection. 
178. Hypena nodyna spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax clay-brown; abdomen sooty brown. Primary uniform 
clay-brown, with a basal interrupted fine white line, a sharply defined broadish 
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white erect oblique line, a white subapical dot, below which is a trace of a darkly 
dotted curved snbterminal line, the dark dots having a minute white external 
edging ; a dark dot in the cell. Secondary dark greyish browu. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Ihth. Ekeikei, Jlarch and April ; Aroa lliver, February. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
179. Hypena aneliopis spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Primary dull greyish brown, 
with a waved darker antemedian line and an erect oblique postmedian dark line 
finely edged externally with white ; a broadly waved subtermiiial dotted line, into 
which runs a dark line from the apex, extending to the inner margin ; a dark dot in 
the cell ; termen finely dark. Secondary uniform greyish brown. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Ual. Dinawa, August ; Ekeikei, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
180. Hypena hedychroa spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Primary greyish brown, with 
a paler antemedian line edged finely with olive-brown externally ; a dark dot in 
the cell, beyond which the ground colour is dark velvety brown np to the white 
tri-waved postmedian line : a slight angle is created at the two points where the 
waves meet about veins 2 and 6 ; three or four small dark snbterminal spots, below 
which is a pale waved line to the tornus ; a dark dash from the apex, sharply 
curved basewards below the second sj)ot, edged above palely ; termen finely dark. 
Secondary uniform dull greyish brown ; underside with a median line in both 
wings. Primary with two vertical white subapical dots below the costa. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hah. Ekeikei, January and February ; Dinawa and Aroa River. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
181. Hypena subalbida spec, nov, 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey. Primary pale greyish brown, 
with a trace of a curved fine dark antemedian line touching a black dot in the cell ; 
postmedian line white, erect, slightly oblique ; the area adjoining, and before this 
line darker ; a trace of a spotted snbterminal line interrupted below the second 
subcostal spot by a broad dark snbapical dash curved basewards ; the tornal part 
of the snbterminal line unspotted. Secondary white, with a broad dark termen 
tapering rapidly to the tornus. 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Hah. Aroa River, January, 
Type in my collection. 
182. Hypena leucoprepa spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax russet-brown, abdomen blackish brown. Primary russet- 
brown up to the tri-waved white postmedian line, which is slightly but distinctly 
angled at veins 2 and ; a dark dot in the cell, in front of which is the antemedian 
dark strongly excurved line ; subterminal line dotted above vein 5 with a large dark 
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snl)-apical cloud invaJing it below the second subcostal spot and confluent with 
a snbcrenulate band of dark shading outside the iiostmediau line. Secondary 
almost snow-white, with a broad black termen tapering to the tornns. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Ilab. Keboa Range, March and April ; Aroa River. 
Type in my collection. 
Other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
183. Hypena aroa spec. nov. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish grey. Primary pale olive-grey 
up to the fine oblique slightly curved whitish line; a dark dot in the cell, from 
whence up to the postmedian line the colour is more olivaceous ; an oblique indefinite 
band of darker shading from the apex to the inner margin ; termen dark slate-grey ; 
with a fine scalloped dark line. Secondary entirely whitish, slightly tinged with 
cream ; a fine blackish-brown termen, with a slight suiFusion at veins 2 to 5 ; 
fringes dark. 
Expanse, 29 mm. 
llab. Aroa River, February. 
Type in my collection. 
Other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
184. Hypena zapluta spec. nov. 
? . Head, thorax, and abdomen rich dark brown, inclined to blackish. Primary 
chocolate-brown ; the upper portion of the wing from vein 2 very dark reddish sooty 
brown, finely irrorated with pale grey in parts, with a chocolate spot showing 
through here and there a trace of an antemedian line ; postmedian dark waved line 
more distinct and finely edged externally with whitish ; a trace of a spotted sub- 
terminal line, in which is a series of whitish points ; fold with dark bands and 
spots. Secondary snow-white, with an extremely broad terminal border of deep 
sooty black. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
llab. Kebea Range, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
185. Hypena griseata spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax pale greyish, finely irrorated with pale lilac ; abdomen pale 
greyish, with paler segmental divisions. Primary pale greyish, with pale lavender- 
grey irrorations ; a very strongly dentate antemedian line dark externally, lavender- 
grey internally ; a pale dot in the cell, and a larger pale spot at the reniform ; 
postmedian dark line, pale externally, curved over the reniform, ,then recurved, 
below which it is nearly erect to the inner margin; a broad pale lavender-grey band 
follows, succeeded by an olive-brown band with a pale lavender band beyond this, 
whence up to the termen it is olive-brown, the two olive-brown areas being confluent 
about veins 7 and 8 ; termen darkly dashed, the dashes having pale internal 
edgings ; four whitish points on the costa. Secondary uniform greyish brown, 
with dark dashes on the termen. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum, 
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186. Hypena erecta spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish brown. Primary greyish brown, 
finely irrorated more or less all over ; autemedial line irregular, excurved, in parts 
olive-brown, very evanescent, being only distinct in quite fresh specimens ; post- 
median line erect, white, slightly obliqne, with a dark somewhat snfFused internal 
edging ; three blackish dots in the snbterminal area below the costa, the lowest 
widely separated from the ui)per two by a broad dark brown dash from the apex, 
which dash is angled inwards along vein 7 ; terminal area slightly darker than 
the general colour ; termcn with fine dark scallops. Secondary uniform greyish 
brown, with a fine dark terminal line. 
Expanse, 33 mm. 
JIab. Ekeikei, Aroa River, February. 
Type in my collection. 
Other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
187. Hypena zaplutagramma spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax mottled brownish grey ; abdomen greyish brown. Primary 
mottled brownish grey, with the deep cream-coloured antemedian and postmedian 
lines parallel and somewhat oblique, the former externally, the latter internally, 
edged with olive-brown, the latter also having an indefinite dark suffusion pre- 
ceding it ; a black point in the cell ; reniform visible as a fawn-coloured dash ; 
subterminal line pale and irregular into the tornus, descending from four 
blackish irregular spots edged palely externally, below the second of which is a 
curved pale line with a blackish edging below, descending from the apex ; 
terminal area greyish, with a dark terminal line. Secondary uniform pale 
brownish, with a fine dark terminal line. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Ilab. Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection. 
Allied to //. tijlistalis Swinhoe. 
188. Hypena themerodes spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen greyish brown. Primary olive- 
brown ; antemedian line waved, obscure ; postmedian line fine white, waved with 
a darker internal edging ; subterminal pale line interrupted, more or less dotted, 
strongly waved and somewhat interrupted ; terminal line fine and dark. Secondary 
uniform brownish. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
JIab. Kebea Range and other localities, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
Other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
Allied to //. phecomalis Swinhoe. 
189. Hypena lichenalis spec nov. 
?. Head and thorax roughly scaled greyish brown ; abdomen jialer brownish. 
Primary roughly scaled greyish brown ; basal pale line erect from the costa into the 
cell, then roughly excurved below ; postmedian ])ale line irregular, produced out- 
wards from vein 8 to 4 ; subterminal area broadly lichen grey ; termen broadly 
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greyish brown. Secondary roughly scaled greyish brown, with a brown median 
line, beyond which is a broadish tapering band of lichen grey ; termen broadly 
brownish. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Hah. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
190. Hypena irregulinea spec. nov. 
(?. Head and thorax dark brownish grey ; abdomen brown, with reddish 
dorsal tufts. Primary brownish, with basal dark line twice strongly waved 
outwards ; postmediau pale line produced strongly ontwards beyond the cell, 
angled slightly outwards on the fold ; area between these lines somewhat reddish 
darker brown ; a dark dot in the cell ; a subterminal waved series of dark dots, 
the costal two with white external edging ; terminal line finely dark. Secondary 
uniform brownish ; termen finely pale, with a fine external dark edging. 
Expanse, 37 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
191. Hypena albicomma spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen slightly paler, with dark dorsal 
tufts. Primary rich velvety burnt brown to the pale waved postmedian line ; 
a trace of an antemedian line across the snow-white comma mark on the lower 
margin of the cell ; outer area beyond the postmedian line dark fawn-brown, 
paler than the median area, with two large slate-grey patches, one on the costa, 
the other in the upper radial area, separated by a narrow stripe of the fawn-brown 
along vein ; the whole of this outer area is strongly stippled with largish dark 
irrorations. Secondary uniform dark brown. 
Expanse, 40 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
102. Hypena ovisig^nata spec nov. 
(J. Head, thorax, and primary palish brown. Primary with an obscure 
whitish antemedian line nearly erect from the costa across the cell, receding 
basewards from the lower margin of the cell ; postmedian line whitish, nearly 
straight, very oblique; between these two lines is an ovate, very dark velvety spot 
along the fold ; a darkish cloudy suffusion occupies a large portion of the outer 
area beyond the oblique jjostmedian line ; a trace of a spotted subterminal line 
across this suffusion. Secondary uniform brownish. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Ilab. Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection. 
193. Hypena unicolor spec. nov. 
S . Head and tliorax darkish brown ; abdomen somewhat paler. Primary 
uniform umber-brown, slightly darker in parts, with a somewhat paler large 
irregularly ovate spot beyond the end of the cell ; postmedian line tine dark, twice 
waved ; a subterminal row of white points ; a whitish apical spot. Secondary dull 
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brown, whitish above the cell. On the underside of the primary in a whitish 
ground is a deep crcam-colonred pencil of long hairs lying along the fold, and a 
corresponding pencil of like hairs lies along the njjper margin of the cell of the 
secondaries. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Ilah. Kebea Range, 0000 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
104. Hypena albonotata spec. nov. 
c?. Head, thorax, and primary darkish greyish brown, tinged with rnsty in 
the median area and with much dark grey suifusion ; a fine waved antemedian 
line excnrved on the fold, edging internally a good-sized snow-white spot in 
the cell ; postmedian line waved, excnrved beyond the cell, with a snbterminal 
row of fine white points ; a whitish apical spot ; termen with fine white points 
between the veins. Secondary greyish brown, whitish above the cell ; termen 
with fine white internervular points ; underside, primary with a cream-coloured 
pencil of hairs lying in the fold, the white cell spot showing through cream- 
coloured. Secondary with a similar pencil along the upper margin of the cell. 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
105. Hypena nephoptera spec. uov. 
c?. Head and thorax brown ; abdomen paler. Primary pale umber-brown, 
with a pale slightly waved antemedian line and a white nearly erect postmedian 
line ; a black dot in the cell, followed by a dark suffused cloud backing up to the 
white line; a very dark irregular cloud in the snbterminal area from the apex 
obliquely inwards and thence to the tornus ; an interrupted subterminal line 
arising in two white subcostal dots ; three or four whitish costal points in front 
of the apex ; termen with dark internervular dashes. Secondary uniform brownish, 
Expanse, 34 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, February and other localities. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
196. Hypena callilinea sjioc. nov. 
?. Head and thorax dull sepia-brown; abdomen paler brown. Primary dark 
sepia-brown up to the irregular white line, which is slightly angled twice at vein 5 
and about vein 2 ; a fine dark irregular antemedian line ; a dark spot in the 
cell ; area be3'ond the white line pale lavender-brown, deepening in tone towards 
the termen ; snbterminal darkly spotted line strongly waved ; a short dark cloudy 
dash from the apex inwards ; termen with internervular dark dashes. Secondary 
uniform dull brown. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
197. Hypena plinthopa spec. nov. 
i. Head and thorax dull reddish brown"; abdomen dull brown. Primary 
dull reddish brown, with an irregular darkish antemedian line and an irregular 
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postmedian pale line, the area darker up to this point ; an irregalar waved 
series of dark snbterminal points, arising in a snow-white suhapical dot ; a dark 
point in the cell ; the whole of the wing is stippled with slate-grey irrorations. 
Secondary uniform darkish brown. 
Expanse, 29 mm. 
Hah. Ekeikei, March and April, and other localities. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
In some specimens the area to the postmedian line is quite bright reddish. 
198. Hypena callipona spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax purplish brown ; abdomen paler brown. Primary 
purplish brown, with a reddish tint in the median area ; antemedian deep cream- 
coloured line, obscure, straiglitish, very slightly oblique ; postmedian line deep cream, 
more distinct, roughly parallel with the previous line but slightly waved; area 
beyond the postmedian line paler, but with a subapical terminal dark velvety 
wedge-shaped suft'usion ; a waved subterminal series of small dark spots externally 
edged with white ; termen fine blackish, preceded by a series of short snow-white 
fine dashes ; the wing is more or less finely irrorated with lavender-grey. Secondary 
dark grey ; termeu with fine white points. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
JIab. Kebea Range, 6000 ft., March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
199. Hypena orphnina spec nov. 
? . Head and thorax grizzled grey ; abdomen darkish grey. Primary grizzly 
grey, with an obscure irregular antemedian paler line darkly edged externally ; 
postmedian line pale, irregular, outwardly produced from vein <8 to 4 ; a broad 
subterminal irregular band of bluish grey; reniform fawn colour. Secondary 
brownish grey, with a dark median line, followed by a band of bluish grey, beyond 
which the terminal area is dark, 
Expanse, 38 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, September. 
Type in my collection. 
200. Hypena spodopa spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen ashy gre}'. Primary slightly ochreons pale 
ashen grey, very finely and densely irrorated ; median and postmedian lines roughly 
parallel, slightly oblique, dark brown ; subterminal line dark brown, slightly 
excurved about veins 4 and 5 ; a dark brown oblique dash from the apex to 
the subterminal line at vein G ; termen finely dark. Secondary uniform pale 
brownish grey. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
JIab. Dinawa, May ; Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
201. Hypena leucospora spec. nov. 
S. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Primary dark umber-brown, 
with an oval white small spot in the cell ; a trace of a pale postmedian line darkly 
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edged internally ; enbterminal band obscnre, darkly spotted. Secondary palish 
grey-lirown. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Area River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
The type is iu poor condition, but it belongs manifestly to a new species 
and is in a condition to be quite recognisable. 
202. Hypena styx spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Primary dark brown, with an 
irregularly broad, waved, blackish-brown velvety antemediau line; postmedian 
line deep velvety black, edged externally with deep cream colour ; the area 
between these lines is filled in for its outer half by a suffused band of blackish ; 
subterminal line fine blackish, very irregular and somewhat dentate, with a 
subapical terminal cloud extending into it ; outside the postmedian line is some- 
what dnsted with whitish grey. Secondary darkish brown. 
Expause, 29 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
203. Hypena aiana spec. nov. 
S- Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings uniform dull brownish, slightly 
paler beyond the postmedian line ; a trace of an excnrved antemedian line ; 
postmedian line dark, nearly straight, slightly oblique ; termen with a scalloped 
linear black line. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
204. Hypena incognata spec. nov. 
? . Head and thorax dull brown ; abdomen paler. Primary olive-brown up 
to the waved white postmedian line ; a trace of a fine dark scalloped antemedian 
line; postmedian line followed by a broad indefinite band of quite pale greyish; 
terminal area very broadly dark, with an oblique pale subapical patch. Secondary 
uniform dull brown. 
Expanse, 22 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
205. Hypena mambara spec. nov. 
(J. Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; abdomen greyish. Primary purplish 
brown, with a rich velvety, dark pnrplish brown streak in the cell to the termen, 
and several internervnlar similar dashes in the radial area ; a broad similar stripe 
all along the fold from base to termen ; a dark interrujited antemedian line ; a 
trace of a similar median line ; postmedian line finer, irregnlar, produced slightly 
outwards at the cell, with a paler external edging ; subterminal line irregnlar, 
somewhat waved, dotted with pale bluish grey ; a bluish-grey dot W the cell ; 
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reniform bluish grey, with a darlj central dash ; termen interrnpted finely pale 
grey. Secondary greyish brown. 
Expanse, 32 mm. 
Hub. Biagi, Mambare River. 
Type iu my collection. 
Parhypena gen. nov. 
Differs from Stenhypena Hmpsn. iu the antennae being fasciculate ; no raised 
specks in the cell. Secondary with veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 from the lower and 
upper angles respectively. 
Type : Farhjjpena albopunctata B-B. 
206. Parhypena albopunctata spec. nov. 
S. Head and thorax darkish cinnamon-brown; abdomen greyish. Primary 
darkish cinnamon-brown, with a trace of an autemedian dark interrnpted line, a 
more distinct dark serrate postmedian line, and an irregular subterminal series of 
dark points with whitish external edging ; cell closed by a dark broken dash. 
Secondary uniform pale ochreous grey. 
Expanse, 28 mm. 
Ilab. Diuawa, July to September. 
Type in my collection. 
Argillana gen. nov. 
Palpi of moderate length, scaled ; second segment fringed above ; end segment 
short, oblique ; antennae with minute cilia ; wings, primary expanding outwards ; 
costa moderately straight ; apex depressed ; termen evenly produced outwards. 
Neuration : primary with veins 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from near the angle, 
from the upper angle, 7 from the ariole, 8, 9, and 10 stalked from beyond the 
middle. Secondary with veins 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from below the middle of 
the discocellnlars, and 7 from the ujiper angle. 
Type : Argillana albistrigata B-B. 
207. Argillana albistrigata spec, nov. 
cJ. Palpi slate-grey, fringed with white above on the second segment ; head, 
thorax, abdomen, and both wings bright fulvous ; an orange-tawny antemedian 
line ; a dark median line confluent with a white line below the cell, on each side of 
which (latter) is a short orange dash ; beyond the obscure reniform a curved white 
dash bordering internally a pale orange patch, below which to the inner margin is a 
large patch of slate-grey; an interrupted waved orange-tawny subterminal line. 
Secondary with a broad orange median band bisected by a waved white line ; an 
obscure darkly dotted excurved subterminal line. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
Brithodes gen. nov. 
Pali)i with second segment very long, porreot, scaled, haired on the upper side ; 
end segment obliquely upturned, short, haired with naked apex ; antennae minutely 
and finely bipectinate in both sexes, more strongly in the male. Neuration : 
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primary with G from below the angle, T from the angle, 8, 0, and 10 stalked neaf 
the apex. Secondar}' with 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from near the lower angle, 6 and 7 
from the npper angle. 
Type : Britkodes tetralinea B-B. ^-t^ ^ ^<.*jL.nA,u^_ 
208. Brithodes quadrilineata spec. nov. 
S and ? . Heiid, thorax, and primary lilac-grey. Primary with four pale lines 
with tawny external edging, more sufFased in the female than in the male ; basal 
line short, parallel witli the antemedian line, which is sliglitly ubliqnc ; jiostmedian 
and snbterminal Hues ronghly parallel, both slightly angled and shortly curved 
abont vein 7 to the costa ; termen with a fine linear scalloped dark line, preceded 
by a similar but slightly broader line ; a dark spot at the end of the cell. Secondary 
pale straw, with a slight pinkish suffusion in the female. In the female the lines 
are more distinctly white than in the male, and there is a broad white suffusion 
preceding the snbterminal line. 
Expanse, 24 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August and September. 
Type in my collection. 
209. Chusaris aroa spec. nov. 
S. Head pale lemon-yellow; thorax pale lemon, with a black central meta- 
thoracic spot and black collar. Primary pale lemon-yellow, with four black costal 
spots, one at the base, two in the median area, one near the apex ; a large black 
patch in the fold excavated above and below, extending upwards to touch the third 
costal spot, but not touching the second ; a black dot at the apex, and two terminal 
patches below it. Secondary greyish, with slight pale lemon invasion near the tornus. 
Expanse, 18 to 19 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
210. Chusaris dinawa spec. nov. 
S. Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings ochraceous grey. Primary with a 
darker indefinite oblique median line, a narrower parallel postmedian line, a broadish 
pale obliqne snbterminal line tapering up narrowly to the apex, finely edged 
internally, and broadly externally with darker ground colour, a greyish line between 
this and the termen, after which the termen is broadly paler ; termen darkly dotted. 
Secondary with the snbterminal markings of the primary carried through, but 
waved. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Hab. Dinawa, August. 
Type in my collection. 
211. Chusaris olearia spec. nov. 
S- Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey. Primary pale brownish, with 
a slight tinge of jiurjilish ; antemedian line dark, waved ; postmedian line dark, 
irregular, waved, and jiroduced outwards about vein and 7 ; this line is more or 
less distinctly finely edged externally with pale ochreous ; a trace of an interrupted, 
very irregular pale snbterminal line ; a dark indefinite spot at the end of the cell, 
with the least trace of a median line crossing it ; termen with fine iuternervnlar 
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ochreons dashes. Secondary pale brownish grey. The whole insect has a slightly 
shiny appearance, as if it were greasy. 
Expanse, 26 mm. 
Ilab. Owgarra. 
Type in my collection. 
Foveades gen. nov. 
Palpi long, porrect, very heavily scaled, with a long fringe on the upperside 
of the second segment ; end joint minnte ; antennae bipectinate ; pectinations long ; 
wings, primary broad, termen arched, secondary ample. Nenration : primary 
with veins 4 and 5 from the lower .angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle, 8, 9, 10, 
and 11 stalked, 8 and 9 from near the apex, 10 and 11 from a common stalk given 
off 8 near the cell ; a deep pit in the cell extending nearly to the costa, causing the 
costal vein to be curved downwards beyond the pit. Secondary with 3 and 4 from 
the lower angle, 5 from about the middle of the diacocellulars, (3 and 7 from the 
npper angle. 
Type : Foveades aroensis B-B. 
212. Foveades aroensis spec. nov. 
cJ. Palpi ochreons, heavily scaled with blackish ; thorax and abdomen cream- 
coloured. Primary cream-coloured, with a black costal spot near the base, followed 
by a second black spot ; a third small black costal spot above the end of the cell ; 
a blackish oblique postmediau line preceded by a row of black dots, both shortly 
angled inwards above the inner margin ; termen dotted with black ; a small 
black dot in the cell, followed by two at the end ; a black dot below the cell near 
the base. Secondary creamy, semihyaline, whitish, with a trace of a dark median 
line. 
Expanse, 20 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, April. 
Type in tlie Tring Museum. 
213. Hypenagonia briinnea spec. nov. 
tS . Head, thorax, and abdomen umber-brown. Primary darkish brown, with 
the trace of a waved basal line, beyond which the median area is darker ; post- 
median dark line strongly angled about vein 6, up to where it is finely edged with 
white externally, below this point most obscure ; a tawny wedge-shaped costal 
patch before the apex ; termen darkly dotted. Secondary brownish, with an irregular 
median band darkly edged ; a tawny indefinite dash from the tornus. 
Expanse, 19 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 
214. Goinocraspedum aroa spec. nov. 
¥. Palpi, head, and thorax white; body pale olive-brownish. Primary pale 
greyish to olive-brownish in parts ; base and median area grey, with a trace of 
a white basal interrupted line ; two slight olive patches on the costa and on the 
inner margin also ; a patch at the end of the cell, with a white costal patch above 
and another white patch nearer the apex ; a largish white patch before the tornus 
on the inner margin ; a trace of an interrupted white postmedian line ; a white 
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Rl)otted siibterminal line ; termen with a white spot below the apex, with another 
helow it ; fringes with white patches. Secondary greyish whitish at the base, 
with a dark curved median line, followed by a white band below the cell nearly to 
the tornns ; a white short dash, nearer the termen from the tornns. 
Expanse, 21 mm. 
Ilab. Aroa River, February. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
Hypenarana gen. nov. 
Palpi very long, porrect, thickly scaled ; second segment with long scales 
on upper edge ; end segment at nearly right angles ; basal half scaled ; apex 
naked ; antennae serrate, very fine in both sexes, with minnte cilia ; wings, 
primary moderately broad ; termen excised from the apex to vein (i. Secondary 
small, angled at vein 2, excised from there to the angle. Neuration : primary, 
vein 4 from the angle, 5 from directly above the angle, 6 from well below the 
npper angle, 7 from the upper angle, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 11 appressed almost 
on to 10 ; secondary, veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from above the angle, 6 and 7 
from the upper angle. 
Type : Hi/penarana rosacea B-B. 
215. Hypenarana rosacea spec. nov. 
S • Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen cinnamon-brown. Primary cinnamon- 
brown ; antemedian pale line angled on the fold ; postmedian line pale, subcrenulate, 
produced outwards beyond the cell, angled inwards on the fold; area between 
these two lines filled in with darker brown ; snbterminal line darkly dotted ; 
termen with dark dots ; cell with a dark dot, followed by two dark dots at the 
end of it. Secondaries rosy. 
?. Like the male, without the dark median infilling. 
Exjianse, 19-2ii mm. 
Hah. Biagi, Mambare River. 
Type in my collection. 
Paranoratha gen. nov. 
Palpi longish, obliquely porrect ; second segment scaled with a tuft on the 
upper side ; end segment small, scaled ; antennae fine, with fine minnte cilia. 
Legs, foreleg with a small tibial tuft, hindlegs with both femora and tibiae 
somewhat flattened ; both wings broad. Primary, costa nearly straight, slightly 
depressed at the apex ; termen straight to vein 4, from where it recedes rapidly 
to the tornns. Neuration with vein 2 from near the middle of the cell, 3 from 
nearer the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from directly above the angle, from the 
npper angle, 7 from the ariole, 8 and 9 stalked very near the apex, lO from 
the ariole. Secondary with vein o from directly below the middle of the 
discocellulars. 
Type : I'aranora.tha fusca B-B. 
216. Paranoratha fusca spec. nov. 
S • Palpi sooty brown ; head and thorax sooty grey ; abdomen j)aler grey. 
Primary greyish, with an irregular waved rusty line rising in a dark rusty 
brown costal spot ; postmedian line strongly excurved from vein 7 to 4, the curve 
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being filled in from before the reuiform (which is darkly outliued) with pale 
rusty brown ; a trace of a darkly spotted interrupted subterminal line, roughly 
parallel with the preceding one ; termen with black dots. Secondary greyish, 
with a distinct dark postmediaii line, angled at vein 6, followed by an indefinite 
darker line of shading ; termen darkly pointed. 
Expanse, 22 mm. 
Hab. Aroa River, March. 
Type in the Tring Musenm. 
217. Moscha modesta spec. nov. 
<?. Head, thorax, and abdomen oclireous grey. Primary ochreons grey, with 
a slight greenish shade; a dark interrupted antemedian line from a costal sjjot; 
an olive-brown postmedian line, broad and dark below the costa ; a subapical 
costal olive-brown patch ; a trace of a pale subtenninal irregular line ; termeu 
dark for the apical half; reniform blackish. Secondary darkish grey, with a dark 
median line. 
Expanse, 18 mm. 
Hab. Biagi, Blambart^ River. 
Type in my collection. 
SATURNIIDAE. 
218. Opodipthera strigata spec. nov. 
cJ. Head and face orange-colour ; collar broadly white-edged finely above, 
below with chocolate-brown, with a deep crimson spot on each shoulder ; thorax and 
abdomen yellowish buff. Both wings yellowish buff, with an obliijue slightly waved 
brownish mauve line from well in front of the apex through each wing, and a small 
ocellus at the end of the cells, having a fine yellow pupil ringed alternately with 
mauve, yellow, and mauve. Primary with a whitish subapical small costal patch 
with a black wedge-shaped centre ; base of costa broadly purplish for a fifth. 
Secondary with a waved mauve postmedian line, in addition to the oblique line 
mentioned before ; a series of dark mauve spearhead marks in the postmedian area. 
Expanse, 72 mm. 
Hab. Mafalu, 0000 ft., August. 
Type in my collection. 
CHALCOSIIDAE. 
219. Eusphalera semiflava ab. subflava nov. 
S. Head and thorax steel-blue ; abdomen black above ; veutral surface straw- 
colour. Primary very restricted black, with steel-blue scales at base, basal two- 
thirds chrome-yellow ; apical third black with steel-blue scales between the veins 
near the apex. Secondary with extreme base narrowly black ; rest of wing canary- 
yellow, becoming deeper at its edge. Termeu broadly black, tapering down 
narrowly at the angle. Under surface similar to upper surface, but with a steel-blue 
spot at the apex of the secondary. 
Expanse, .50 mm. 
Ilab. Ekeikei, March and April. 
Type in my collection. 
I think the neuration of this genus must be very inconstant, as in my specimens 
oi semiflava and subjlam vein 11 does not anastomose with 12, but is quite free. 
Hi 
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220. Eusphalera semiflava ab. ekeikei nov. 
cJ. Similar to semijiaca, but the yellow baud of the hiudwing exteudiug right 
np the inner margin. 
Jlab. Ekeikei, Jannary and February ; and Kebea Range. 
Type in my collection. 
221. Eusphalera semiflava ab. sublutea nov. 
S. Similar to ab. suhjlara, but the forewiug black, with an orange-yellow 
band. 
Expanse, 50 to 54 mm. 
Hab. Ekeikei, March and A\m\. 
Type in my collection. 
222. Eusphalera nigrovata spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax metallic blue; thorax and patagia with an oran.ge-red 
central strijje ; abdomen black. Primary orange-red, with the apical third black, 
and a large subovate black ]iatch occupying the inner margin from the base and 
extending upwards in a curve well into the cell, but not reaching through the 
orange to the apical black area. Secondary wholly black. Underside as above 
with the addition of a metallic bine spot at the apex of the secondary-. 
?. Like the male, but larger and brighter, and the inner-marginal black area 
reduced to a large spot or patch in the centre of the margin. 
Exjjanse, (f 52 ; ? 60. 
Jlab. Kebea Range, June ; Ekeikei, March. 
Types in my collection. 
The female of this species is a handsome insect. 
Probably also an aberration oi semijiava, as may be the following insect. 
223. Eusphalera pratti spec. nov. 
c?. Head and thorax metallic greenish or steel-blue. Both wings intense black, 
primary with a defined orange-red curved stripe across the median area, expanding 
very slightly basewards at the costa ; subapical scales metallic blue. Secondary 
with an orange-red patch above the angle, narrowly extending to the costa. Under- 
side like the upper, except that the secondary has a steel-blue marginal stripe, broad 
at the apex, tapering narrowly towards the angle. 
Expanse, 49 to 56 mm. 
llab. Ekeikei, January to April. 
Type in my collection. 
224. Eusphalera bicolora spec. nov. 
(?. Head, thorax, and extreme base of primary steel-blue ; abdomen black 
above, white below. Primary black, with a creamy white slightly curved median 
band ; metallic scales in the subapical area. Secondary creamy white, with extreme 
base grey; termen broadly black, ta{)eriug somewhat towards the angle. Underside 
as the ujjper, except that the base of both wings is metallic blue, that the secondary 
has the costa narrowly black, not iuterru])tet! as it is above, and that it also has a 
metallic blue apical patch extended into a short marginal line. 
Expanse, 56 mm. 
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Hah. Ekeikei, March. 
Type in my collection. 
The genitalia appear to be identical in all the preceding forms. 
225. Eusphalera splendens spec. nov. 
?. Head, thorax, and antennae brilliant bronzy green, abdomen pale grey, 
bronzy green laterally and below. Both wings velvety black. Primary with the 
base bright bronzy blue and golden green for nearly a quarter, and extending along 
the veins to the narrow creamy white transverse band, crossing the wing obliquely 
in front of the end of the cell ; band finely edged with metallic bluish green ; a 
cnrved scalloped snbapical metallic blue stripe from the costa to vein 2, interrupted 
by the veins. Secondary witli a large inner-marginal pure white patch extending 
all along the margin, and well over the cell edged with brilliant pale blue, especially 
in the cell, and more or less tinged with mother-of-pearl ; a slight scaling of metallic 
blue at the apex. Underside as above, but very strongly suffused with pale 
metallic blue, and the secondary with a terminal line of metallic blue rising in an 
apical patch of the same colour. 
Expanse, 49 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 3600 ft., July. 
Type in my collection. 
22Ci. Evtsphalera lutescens spec. nov. 
S. Head and collar metallic blue; thorax sooty black; abdomen yellow; 
terminal segment finely edged with blackish ; ventral surface creamy. Primary 
black, with two short sub-basal orange-red dashes ; a chrome-yellow patch on the 
costa near the end of the coll, extending broadly to near the tornus, but not entirely 
dividing the wing ; a snbapical steel-blue patch intersected by the veins. Secondary 
clear chrome-yellow, with a broad black termen, whicli is invaded by the yellow from 
vein 2 to 5 ; costa narrowly pale grey. Uudersurface as above, except that the 
costa of the primary is finely steel-blue, and the secondary is encircled with a steel- 
blue line, broad in parts except along the inner margin. 
Expanse, 46 mm. 
Hob. Ekeikei, March and Ai)ril ; Kebea Range, July. 
Type in my collection. 
227. Eusphalera lutescens ab. alboplagata nov. 
t?. Head and thorax metallic blue; abdomen deep yellow, with terminal 
segment edged with blackish, ventral surface pale straw-colour. Primary black, with 
two short snbapical orange-red dashes, and a large whitish costal spot at the end of 
the cell edged indefinitely and obscurely with steel-blue, with a small canary-yellow 
dash on its basal edge ; a subajjical steel-blue patch interrupted by the veins. 
Secondary chrome-yellow, with costa finely paler; termen broadly black, invaded 
by the yellow from veins 3 to 4. Underside as above, except that the costa of the 
primary is finely steel-blue, and the costa and termen of secondary are encircled 
with steel-blue, the former narrowly and the latter mure or less broadly. 
Expanse, 40 to 44 mm. 
Hab. Kebea Range, 3000 ft,, July ; Ekeikei, January and February. 
Type in my collection.