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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 



