418 NOVITATES ZOOLOGIQAK XXI. 1011. 



Hiiuhriiig : with iutuvvals in, bcyouil, and below cell dull hyaline, also that 

 above vein 1 ; the veins blackish ; terminal border broadly black, its inner edge 

 diffuse ; fringe dark at base, white at tips, slightly creunlate. 



Underside of both wings bronzy fnscous, the hyaline area of hindwing 

 bluish white. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; metathorax and dorsal tufts grey ; 

 venter and legs blackish ; a whitish scale-fan beneath patagia. 



The ? is brighter brown, with less black suffusion, that on costa forming a 

 diffuse dark blotch in middle. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



a S<S, 1 ? from New Guinea ; 1 J from Mt. Goliath ; 1 c? (type) from Kumasi 

 River ; 1 c?, 1 ? from Upper Setekwa River ; this last cJ shows hardly any 

 brown, owing to the thick purple-black suffusion. 



41. Lophoptera albistellata spec. nov. 



ForewiiKj : reddish brown, the ground colour to a great extent obscured by 

 the numerous black lines and shadings ; a thick black shade along inner margin 

 to outer line ; subbasal and inner lines black, double, dentate on subcostal and 

 median veins, on submedian fold and below vein 1 ; some blackish blotches in cell ; 

 median line double, strongly excurved beneath costa, then concave outwards to 

 vein 4, insinuate and angled outwards on vein 1 ; veins 3 and 4 black before it ; 

 outer line double, black, excurved above, indented on median vein, luuulate- 

 dentate, incurved below 4, followed by a black sharply dentate line, the inward 

 teeth of which are marked by white scales, that between veins 4 and 5 by a ronnd 

 white spot ; subterminal line pale followed by small brown patches which beneath 

 costa are sharply dentate ; a row of conjoined donble black lunules along termen 

 separated by yellowish dots ; fringe brown, creunlate. 



Hindwing: hyaline white in basal half, with deep black terminal border; 

 costal and inner margins narrowly blackish ; veins black ; fringe brown at base 

 with the tips white. 



Underside of forewing brown, with the markings and veins black ; of hindwing 

 as above. 



Head, tegulae, and patagia brown-black; thorax and basal half of dorsum red- 

 brown and grey, rest of dorsum blackish ; the tufts rufous grey; venter pale grey ; 

 legs black, paler at the joints. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 ? from near the Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, October to 

 December lOlO (A. S. Meek). 



42. Lophoptera torrens s])ec. nov. 



Forewing : chestnut brown, the basal patch rounded and edged by a white 

 line ; a large triangular patch on costa reaching nearly to ,apex and to snbmedian 

 fold below ; separated from basal patch by a large triangular space of grey streaked 

 with brown, rising from a narrow neck at costa and extending along inner margin 

 from near base to near tornus ; outer line very indistinct, double, brown, strongly 

 bent outwards to vein 0, then incurved and sinuons to submedian fold, where it is 

 again outcnrved across submedian intersjwce and lient inwards to inner margin ; it 

 is followed closely from vein 6 to snbmedian fold by a white line with a white spot 



