420 N"ovrrATi;a Zoologicak XXI. IflU. 



1 c?, 1 ? (types) iVom Mt. Goliatli, Dutch New (Jiiiuea, February 1011 ; 1 ? from 

 near Oetakwa River, October — December 191U ; 1 ¥, Goodenongh Island, April 

 1013 (A. S. Meek). 



Subfamily ACONTIANAE. 

 45. Westermannia ossicolor spec. nov. 



Forcic'uuj : dirty boue-colour, minutely blaekish-speckled ; a dull brownish 

 flush beyond cell rnnning to termen and apex ; a black dot at lower angle of 

 cell placed in an nnspcckled space ; lines indistinct and interrnpted ; the outer 

 from costa at two-thirds outwardly oblique, bluntly bent beyond cell, then 

 inwardly oblique and plainer, but obsolescent below vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 irregularly crenulate, inangled on vein .5, ending in a grey-brown cloud on inner 

 margin; black terminal dots ; fringe brownish grey; traces of a short black dash 

 at base of ceil. 



Ilindwing : dull bone-colour, with the veins darker; the terminal area grey- 

 brown, varying in extent and depth. 



Underside bone-colour, suffused in forewing with fuscous grey, except on costa 

 and beyond the middle ; in hiudwing terminally only. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish bone-colour ; the thorax and patagia 

 black-speckled ; legs, especially the tarsi, black-speckled ; fore-coxae and femora 

 internally fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



1 (? from Arawa, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, December 1907 (type) ; 1 $ 

 from Kulambangra, Solomon Islands, March 1901 (A. S. Meek). 



Less glossy than other species and without distinct markings ; nearest to 

 jr. longijdaga Beth.-Baker. 



4U. Westermannia semifusca spec nov. 



Forewiiiy : like argentea Hmps., but the basal two-thirds paler lilac grey, the 

 dark terminal area much broader ; costal edge to outer line white ; inner-marginal 

 streak from base to onter line below vein 1 pale fulvous speckled with black, instead 

 of being cream-colour. 



Hindiciiuj : deep brownish fuscous with veins and termen still darker, and the 

 tips only of fringe white. 



Underside glossy brownish fuscous : the costa of forewing narrowly, of bind- 

 wing broadly pale ; hindwing with large dark cell-blotch. 



Palpi white speckled with black towards tips, wholly black above ; face white 

 with a black ring and dots ; vertex white ; thorax, shoulders, and patagia pale 

 fulvous speckled with black ; dorsum fuscous ; venter, legs, and pectus white ; 

 forelegs with the coxae purple black, the other segments white, speckled and 

 spotted with black. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 c? from Goodenongh Island, 2500 to 4000 ft.. May 1913 (A. S. Meek). 



47. Westermannia ichneumonis spec. nov. and ab. flavipuncta ab. nov. 



Forew/'/ig : bright greyish ochreous speckled with brown, most thickly along 

 costa and towards inner margin ; the dark purplish red-lirown figure assumes, the 

 shape of the head of an ant-eater, its edges brightly defined by whitish; the 



