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porrect, decambent, laterally flattened, the segmeuts obscured ; aiiteuuae 

 lamellate, with short clavate teeth ; legs simple, hind-tibiae with four spnrs ; 

 neuration : forewing with cell a little longer than half of wing ; discocellnlar 

 vertical ; vein 2 at two-thirds, 3 close before 4; radials normal; 7, 8, 9 stalked 

 from before end of cell ; 10, 11 stalked, the stalk anastomosing at a point with 

 12, then again strongly with the stalk of 7, 8, 9 ; hindwing with costal and 

 snbcostal shortly anastomosing at middle of cell ; 3 and 7 well before angles of 

 cell ; no radial. 



Type : Mee/dajlavicosta spec. nov. 



This genns presents several anomalies. 



37. Meekia flavicosta spec. nov. and ab. tincta nov. 



Foreiciiig : shining white, speckled with olive brown ; costal streak brownish 

 yt'llow with dark freckling ; inner and outer lines at one-third and two-thirds, oblique 

 parallel to termen, formed of brown specks, plain only in lower half of wing and not 

 reaching the costa, in the S hardly marked, except by brown spots on inner margin ; 

 slight brown terminal spots, stronger in ? ; fringe white ; cell-spot round and black, 

 distinct in ?, obsolete in S. 



Hindwing : with the two lines distinct in lower half of wing in the ? , absent in 

 the S ; cell-spot present in ? onlj'. 



Underside white : costa of forewing yellow ; terminal black dots present ; cell- 

 spots present in ? only. 



Face and palpi brownish yellow ; verte.x, thorax, and abdomen white; pectus, 

 venter, and legs white; the forelegs brownish yellow in front. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 ?, 2 c?(?, from near Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Gninea, up to 

 3o0a ft., October to Doceml)er 1910 (A. S. Meek), and 1 S from the Upper Retekwa 

 Kiver, August 1910. 



2 (SS from the former locality must be separated as ab. tincta ; both wings, 

 above and below, are pale straw-colour, except at base, which is white, like the vertex 

 and thorax, while the abdomen is straw-colour; unlike the typical cJcf these have 

 the two lines, the cell-spots, and terminal dots as strongly marked as in the ? . 



