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Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 

 210. Chiasmia papuensis spec. nov. 



<?. Forewing : cream-colour, sprinkled with dark brown scales ; Hues finely 

 black-brown, black-dotted on veins, accompanied by greyish olive shades; costa 

 and veins greyish olive ; first line at one-fifth, curved in cell, preceded by an olive 

 cloud ; median a little before middle, parallel throughout to basal line, starting 

 from a dark brown costal spot and enclosing a brown-edged ocelloid cell-spot ; 

 outer line at two-thirds, outcurved somewhat across cell, with distinct black spots 

 on veins, followed by a broad greyish olive shade; submarginal line formed of 

 pale lunules, outwardly black-edged, inwardly containing velvety-black crescents, 

 except that between 6 and T, that between 3 and 4, and the two in submedian 

 interval ; marginal area olive-grey : marginal lunules black ; fringe olive, paler in 

 apical half and mottled with darker beyond veins. 



Hindwing : without inner line ; the postmedian forming a blackish band in 

 lower half ; cell-spot round and black. 



¥ with the lines continuous, concise and brown, the olive shades reduced to 

 linear clouds, the veins fulvous : the postmedian of hindwing without a black 

 blotch. 



Underside like upper, but paler and less glossy. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons ; dorsum black-spotted. 



Expanse of wings : S 24 mm. ; ? 26 mm. 



A good series of both sexes. 



The hindwing is slightly protuberant beyond veins 3 and 4, distinctly crenulate 

 throughout. 



211. Chiasmia? viridochrea spec. nov. 



Forewing : greenish ochreous ; the costa black-dotted ; lines thick and black, 

 interrupted by the pale median vein and a pale streak between 3 and 4 ; a line 

 close to base ; inner line consisting of three black vertical streaks, that at costa 

 nearer base ; preceded by three much thicker black blotches ; outer line double, 

 obscurely lunulate, interrupted below middle ; median line formed by a black spot 

 on costa, a black blotch on discocellular, and a larger one on inner margin between 

 the median and outer lines ; submarginal line preceded by black blotches on costa, 

 beyond cell, and towards inner margin, followed by larger blotches beyond cell 

 and at anal angle ; marginal black spots between veins ; fringe ochreous mottled 

 with black. 



Hindwing : ochreous, without markings ; those beneath showing through only : 

 fringe yellower, with faint brown spots, those at veins 2 and 3 stronger. 



Underside yellow ochreous ; of the forewing with the markings of npperside 

 showing through ; of the hindwing striated with grey-brown and with grey-brown 

 cell-spot and outer, submarginal, and marginal lines. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ochreous, the head browner. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



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Forewing without fovea ; outer margin of hindwing slightly projecting at 

 3 and 4. 



