( ij--i-l ) 



G3. Calamidia castanea sp. nov. 

 ?. Antennae brown ; head and tegnlae yellowish brown; thorax chocolate ; 



abdomen mouse-grey. Forewing chocolate, clouded with chestnut and washed 



with pnrjile, a streak along median fold to tornns black freckled with white. 

 Hiudwing semihyaline grey. 



Length of forewing : 18 mm. 



Hnb. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, oUOO— 7000 ft., January 1911 

 (A. 8. Meek). 



64. Calamidia reticulata sji. nov. 



This is an extremely variable insect, and in my large series no two specimens 

 are quite alike; the following S ? appear most typical. 



cj. Head cream-buff, palpi black, antennae brown ; thorax testaceous pale 



brown ; abdomen cream-buff, anal tuft yellow. Forewing chestnut brown 



irrorated with buff, and with a broad whitish buff tlare between vein 1 and median 

 vein from base to two-thirds the length of the wing, a dark brown spot at the end 

 of the flare. Hindwing buff. 



? larger and paler. 



Other c? t? have forewings and thorax much darker brown and the reticulations 

 and flare mnch reduced or entirely absent, and hindwings salmon-buff. ? ? are 

 either mnch paler, and the reticulations and flare much increased, or uniform brown 

 with greyish buff hindwiugs. 



Length of forewings : c? 20 mm., ? 23 — 25 mm. 



Ilab. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft, February— April 

 1906 (A. S. Meek) (type) ; Angabunga River, afH. of St. Joseph's River, British 

 New Guinea, 6000—6500 ft, November 1904— February 1905 (A. S. Meek). 



65. Monosyntaxis aflBnis sp. nov. 



?. Closely allied to triinaculata Hamjjs. Head orange, antennae black; 

 thorax steel-green, tegulae and outer two-thirds of patagia orange ; abdomen dark 



sooty grey, sides of last three segments yellow. Forewing above median vein 



orange ; basal two-thirds of costal area and wing below median brownish purple 

 with steel-green reflections. Hindwing orauge-bnff. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. 



llab. Gunong Ijau, Malay Peninsula. 



66. Monosyntaxis persimilis sp. nov. 



S. Nqty %im\\a.x to M. hi imnctata B. Baker, which occurs with it. Differs at 

 first sight by having strongly pectinated antennae instead of serrated ones. The 

 frons is black, not dark orange, vertex, tegulae, and patagia dark buff, not reddish 

 orange, metallic blue spot on patagia almost absent, and patches on thorax indistinct, 

 and dirty grey, not metallic blue ; abdomen cream-white, not pale buff and orange, 

 an anal tuft confined to tip. Wings much larger and hindwing rounder. The two 

 spots on forewing dark brown, not steel-blue, the outer one mnch smaller and the 

 inner one a narrow half-moon, not a broal half-globular patch. 



Length of forewing : peraimilis 21 mm., hi punctata 19 mm. 



Breadth of hindwing : „ 12J mm. „ 9i mm. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 51)00—7000 ft., February 1911 

 (A. S. Meek). 



