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NEW BEEPANULIDAE, THYBIDIDAE, TJRANIIDAE, AND 

 GE03IETIIIDAE, FROM ERITISH NEW GUINEA. 



BY W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S. 



ri'^HE insects were collected by A. S. Meek at the Aiigabiuiga River, an udlnent 

 -L of the St. Joseph River, British New Gninea, at an elevation of OUOLI ft. 

 and upwards, from November 19U4 to February 1905. It is a marvellous 

 collection, the number of new species being beyond all expectation. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 

 1. Callidrepana discipunctata spec. uov. 



Forewing : rather deep yellow ; from two-thirds of inner margin a band of 

 three lines runs straight and oblique to below vein 8 ; the central line broadly 

 brown, the inner and outer slender, the pale interval before the outer slightly 

 lustrous ; below 8 the inner and central lines are retracted to costa and the outer 

 bent outwards ; dark spots on the veins represent the submarginal line ; ape.\ and 

 fringe above it brownish fulvous ; cell-mark formed of two brown-edged aunuli. 



Ilindicing : with the band central, but not reaching above vein 4 ; costal area 

 paler yellow. 



Underside fulvous yellow, paler towards inner margins ; both wings with a 

 ronud brown cell-spot, and traces of a straight brown outer line, running from 

 apex in forewing, and from three-fourths of costa in hindwing, hardly reaching 

 below middle. 



Thorax, abdomen, and legs like wings ; upper half of face black, lower half 

 yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



1 ?. 



2. Callidrepana superba si)ec. nov. 



Forewimf : jjale nnspeckled ochreous; from three-fifths of inner margin an 

 oblique olive-brown band runs straight to below vein 7 ; this band consists of a dark 

 olive fine line on the inner edge, separated by a pale interval from a broader and paler 

 olive line, which is edged externally by a somewhat diffuse line of silvery scales ; 

 before vein 7 the inner dark line is widely retracted to costa and becomes obsolete ; 

 the outer line develops into a wide shallow red-brown costal blotch with jialer 

 centre, the lustrous line forming a large bright spot below it; submarginal line 

 represented by a series of olive-brown wedge-shaped marks on the veins, the 

 whole marginal .area, especially towards apex, slightly deeper tinged ; apex and 

 fringe dark olive-brown, (lie fringe becoming jialer towards anal angle ; cell-sjiut 

 double, formed of a bent line of silvery scales on the upper arm of discocellular, 

 and a spot at the lower end. 



Ilindwintj : with the olive band central, not reaching above vein G; the 

 submarginal spots more distinct, the marginal area beyond them distinctly olive- 

 brown. 



