NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE SXI. 1914. 421) 



dnstiug, the two former dusted with black ; the tegnlae and patagia with a 

 lihxck line iu front ; pectus and venter whitish ; legs dusted with black atoms, 

 the tarsi mottled black and white. 

 Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



1 9 from Baigacnm, Syr Daria, June 1911 (Koshantschikofi'). 

 Distingnished by the black streak from subbasal line, and the narrow curved 



median band of hiudwing. 



5.5. Melipotis designata spec. nov. 



Voreicing : pale grey, without darker dnsting or striation, in the median area 

 between inner and outer lines tinged with pale lavender, in the terminal with pale 

 brown ; basal area black-brown, limited by a deeper inner line, which below 

 vein 1 is excurved and edged with white ; the inner margin from base of median 

 vein to lower extremity of basal patch pale mixed with brown and fuscous scales ; 

 reniform stigma narrow and elongate, of the ground colour, with a minute white 

 dot at top and bottom, sometimes outlined with pale ; a small brown spot below 

 it on vein 2 and a larger one obiiijuely below it on submedian fold, indicating 

 a median shade ; outer line black, subobsolete between the two folds, marked by 

 a brown spot on the lower, followed on costa by a large triangular black-brown 

 blotch with an oblique pale patch at middle ; a black spot on submedian fold 

 representing snbterminal line ; some slight black terminal dots, plainest at anal 

 angle; fringe rufous brown. 



Hindwhig : dull blackish, with a pale median streak forming an elongate 

 white blotch from vein 5 to 2 and a smaller indistinct spot towards anal angle ; 

 fringe black, white from vein 7 to 5 and from vein 1 to 2. 



Underside dnll blackish with a complete broad white streak preceded by 

 a black one across middle of both wings ; the base of hindwing and apex of 

 forewing paler. 



Head and palpi greyish fuscous mixed with brown ; shoulders and patagia 

 pale brown tipped with fuscous ; abdomen grey, the basal tuft brown. 



Expanse of wings : c? 42 mm. 



3 cJcJ: 2 from the Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 3500 ft., November 1908 to January 1909 (type) ; and 1 from the Upper Aroa 

 River, British New Guinea, March 1903 (B'leek). 



Allied to M. kehea Beth. -Baker, but smaller, more neatly marked, and without 

 dusting and dark suffusion. 



56. Melipotis kebea ab. nigristriata ab. nov. 



Differs from the type form in having a long diffused black streak along stib- 

 median fold from base to termen, before which it becomes fainter. 



2 ? ? from the Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, March and April 1903 ; 

 1 ? from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, April 1906 (A. S. Meek). 



ThecJcJof this species are rare; in the Tring Museum are 11 ? ¥ but only 

 \ i ; in the British Museum collection there is a single ? . The species was 

 originally described from New Guinea; iu the Tring series are 2 ? ? from Nortii 

 Borneo, and 2 from North Queensland, the last ratlier larger than the New Guinea 

 examples. 



