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138. Risoba pratti spec. nov. 



c?. Head brownish, collar j)ale brownish grey with a rufous base surmounted 

 by a greenish band, thorax greyish brown, abdomen pale Ijrown-grey laterally. 

 Primary greyish brown, with an oliliqne cliestnut-red base ; a broad creamy white 

 subcostal stripe ; costa greenish ; renit'orm obscure greenish with an oblicjue white 

 stripe below it, edged externally by the postmedial fine oblii|ue dark line, palely 

 edged externally below, with its costal half edged broadly with greenish ; apical 

 dark area small with a whitish suffusion below it ; the usual subterminal row of 

 dark dashes very distinctly edged internally with white. Secondary creamy whitish 

 with a dark cell-spot and very broad dark termen. 



Expanse : 41 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from Dinawa, where it occnrs in August 

 and September ; other specimens are in the Tring Museum from the Aroa River, 

 March. 



13'.>. Stictoptera ekeikei spec. nov. 



Head and thorax very dark brown, abdomen blackisli brown. Primary rufous 

 brown, with a dark costa ; medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines very fine and 

 obscure, finely crenulate ; the terminal half of the wing has the appearance of 

 having a series of these finely crenulate lines over it ; the costal area is dark. 

 Secondary opalescent hyaline, with termen broadly blackish. 



Expanse : 34 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from Ekeikei, where it occurs in March 

 and April. 



140. Stictoptera rufa spec. nov. 



c?. Head and thorax dark reddish brown, abdomen sooty brown. Primary 

 pale rnfous, with antemedial, meilial and postmeilial darker oblique lines, the latter 

 slightly waved ; a trace of a subterminal line of darker shading. Secondary dark 

 uniform sooty grey. 



Expanse : 32 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, February. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



141. Stictoptera meeki spec. nov. 



(?. Head and thorax pale rufous, collar deep crimson, abdomen sooty grey. 

 Primary with base orange, very bright at its margin with the oblique antemedial 

 line ; rest of wing reddish, inclined to orange in the postmedial area ; medial line 

 waved ; postmedial line waved inwardly dentate ojiposite the reniform, which is 

 somewhat obscure ; subterminal line dentate, irregular. Secondary sooty black. 



Expanse : 38 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, February. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



142. Sadarsa purpurascens spec. nov. 



(?. Head and collar deep purplish black, nietathorax purplish grey, abdomen 

 purplish black. Primary with the basal two-fifths of costa broadly deep jinrplish 

 black, paler beneath ; remainder of costa broadly pale fawn-brown tinged with 

 purplish ; innermarginal outer three-quarters purj)lish ; a medial line e.xcurved on 



