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NEW OEOMETEIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM FROM 



NEW GUINEA. 



By W. WABREN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 



1. Ozola violacea spec. iiov. 



Forewing : ypllowochreoiis, the o;TOund colour almost entirely hidden by reddish 

 iind violet-brown suffusion; costal edge yellow dotted with black ; the costal streak 

 filled with deuse reddish striae; inner line oblique outwards from one-third of costa 

 to middle of cell, blackish, thence nearly vertical or slightly curved inwards and ill- 

 defined to middle of inner margin, the basal area witliin it red, being almost covered 

 with confluent vinous striae and suffusion ; outer line from two-thirds of costa, dark 

 and sinuous, to inner margin a little beyond inner line, the excurved portion between 

 costa and vein 2 filled up with deep red ; the central area hyaline white with coarse 

 red granular speckling and with a red triangle at top below subcostal vein ; sub- 

 terminal line formed of black blotches between the veins, often indistinct ; area 

 beyond outer line vinous red-brown glossed with violet, containing a small yellow 

 red-speckled ]iatcli on termen from vein 4 to 2 and a slighter patch at apex ; terminal 

 dark dots between veins ; fringe reddish except beyond the yellow areas. 



Ilindwing : with the whole basal half yellowish hyaline with partially contiuent 

 red speckling ; the outer half as in forewing, but without any yellow patches. 



Underside similar to upper ; the outer lines blacker, distinctly crenulate. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red speckled with yellow, the dorsum more solidly 

 red ; venter, pectus, and legs variegated red and yellow. 



The ? is less strongly suffused with red, the pale ground colour being more in 

 evidence. 



Exjjanse of wings : 35 mm. 



A series from near Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, up to 

 3500 ft., October and December I'JlO (A. S. Meek). 



Subfamily GEOMETRINAE. 

 2. Agathiopsis maculata angustifascia subsp. nov. and unanimis subsp. nov. 



In Soc. Zoo/, iii. p. -SO I described this species from Fergusson Island ; in it 

 the c? (lifters from the ? in having the marginal dark border narrower and darker, 

 with straigbter inner margin, than in that sex ; of the four from the Solomon Islands 

 (Bougainville), subsp. a/u/us/i/'ani-ia has this border still narrower and more concise, 

 the inner edge white ; on the other hand, of four examples from Ninay Valley, Central 

 Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, subsp. ui/aHimin, the '2 <S S are only distinguishable 

 from the ? ? by the round green terminal blotch between veins 3 and 4, the border 

 in both sexes being of the same colour and shape as in typical ? ?. 



3. Anisogamia absona Wan-, ab. exalbata nov. 



Differs from the tyjje in having all tlie white spaces exaggerated ; in the fore- 

 wings the spots forming the outer line and the inner of the two submarginal lines 



