I 



NovitaTes Zoologicae XXI. 1914. 411 



Expanse of wiugs : 40 mm. 



1 (J, 3 ? ? from Ninay Valley, Central Avfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 3500 feet, November 1908 to January 1909. 



24. Targalla strigilipennis spec. nov. 



Forewing : grey suffused with purplish violet ; the lines blackish, waved; the 

 whole basal half of wing to median line suffused with purplish black, in which the 

 subbasal, inner, and median lines are visible, the space between the two last forming 

 a black band ; the reniform stigma oblique, irregular, with interrupted white 

 outline edged with black, its centre rufous ; sometimes a minute white dot in cell 

 on the black band ; outer line double, black, regularly crenulate, bent on vein 0, 

 thicker and blacker above middle ; followed by a second, much finer, double black 

 line, lunnlate-dentate, the teeth marked by white points on the veins ; subterminal 

 line black above middle, starting from a black costal triangle, indented on both 

 folds ; terminal line black, with white dots at the end of veins ; fringe purplish. 



Uindu'ing : brownish fuscous, in ? with the base slightly paler, in the c? 

 with the area between veins 2 and 6 subhyaline with the veins dark, the costal 

 and terminal areas narrowly fuscous ; the inner margin and vein 2 thickened with 

 black and vinous scales in both sexes ;*the fringe vinous; the terminal line as in 

 forewing. 



Underside blurred fuscous in forewing with the outer and subterminal lines 

 dark ; tte costa and terminal third tinged with vinous ; hindwing paler tinged 

 with vinous in costal half and terminal third in the ? with large black cell-spot 

 and three blackish waved lines ; whitish in S with lines and cell-spot plainer and 

 much less red suffusion. 



Head, palpi e.xterually, and thorax fuscous and ochreons mi.Ked with vinous ; 

 palpi internally ochreous ; dorsum dark fuscous grey, the anal segment tinged with 

 vinous ; venter and pectus tinged with vinous. 



E,\'panse of wings : S 28 mm. ; ? 28-32 mm. 



2 Jc?, 3 ? ? from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, September — October 1892, 

 (W. Uoherty). 



25. Targalla carnea spec. nov. 



Forewing : flesh-colour, diluted with greyish when worn ; inner line dark grey, 

 blackish at each end ; oblique outwards to cell, there roundly bent and oblique 

 inwards, edged with whitish, inwardly above, outwardly below middle ; inwardly 

 preceded by grey suffusion, outwardly with deeper flesh-colour ; outer line oblique 

 to vein 6, edged by a grey-green bar, then fine and sinuous, ending in a black spot 

 on inner margin ; the costal bar is followed by a deep brick-red triangle edged 

 with white, from the apex of which on vein 6 a sinuous red shade rises before the 

 ill-detined subterminal line ; cell-spot a deep red lunula preceded by a finer white 

 one ; the apex paler or altogether grey. 



Hindwing : with basal half pale, terminal half flesh-colour, sometimes with a 

 paler subterminal line limiting a somewhat darker subterminal band ; some dark 

 scaling along vein 1 at end ; fringe pale with a darker grey dividing line. 



Underside ochreous tinged and speckled with pink, except the inner margins, 

 which are whitish ; tbe outer lines only indicated. 



