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67. Oeonistis lifuensis sp. nov. 



S. Antennae brown ; head and thorax bnff, tip of patagia and large patch on 



metathorax steel-green ; abdomen orange-bntf. Forewing butf with satiny sheen ; 



costa for three-fourths its length a median transverse band double as wide below 

 median vein as above it, and a snbtermiual central patch metallic bright steel- 

 blue. Hindwing yellowish orange-butf. 



? paler. 



Length of forewing : S 16-5 mm , ? 21 mm. 



Ila/j. Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



68. Oeonistis aurifera sp. nov. 



cJ. Antennae sooty brown, frons black ; vertex and thorax orange-buflf with a 



metallic sheen; abdomen buff. Forewing metallic golden buff; a spot near base 



of inner margin, a large discal patch, and basal two-thirds of costal area metallic 

 steel-blue. Hindwing maize-buff. 



Length of forewing : 21 mm. 



Hab. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., 

 October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



69. Oeonistis metallescens sp. nov. 



S. Antennae brown ; frons black, vertex metallic golden buif ; thorax metallic 

 golden buff with brownish purple patch, abdomen whitish buff, last two segments 



and anal tuft maize-yellow. Forewing silvery white ; basal half below median 



vein pale metallic golden butf surrounded on three sides by a broad brownish purple 

 band which on basal third of wing includes costa and extends in centre in a 

 broad wedge almost to termen. Hindwing buff. 



? Larger and paler. 



Length of forewing : t? 19 mm., ? 24 mm. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000— 7000 ft., February 1911 

 (A. S. Meek). 



70. Oeonistis bistrigata sp. nov. 



tS. Palpi scarlet ; head grey with median band of dirty bnff, antennae grey- 

 brown ; thorax slate-grey with greenish metallic sheen, tegulae bnff with scarlet 

 edges and slate grey median band, patagia buff; legs scarlet, front of fore and 



middle tibiae satiny greenish grey ; thorax orange-buff. Forewing golden metallic 



bnff tinged or washed with brownish, a broad band along basal two-thirds of 

 costa and an obliqne broad elbowed discal band from basal third of inner margin 

 to two-thirds length of vein 4 metallic steel-green glossed with purple. Hind- 

 wing orange-buff. 



Length of forewing : 26 mm. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000—7000 ft., February 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



71. Disoidemata lactea sp. nov. 



(J. Head yellowish white; thorax and abdomen brownish sooty grey, anal 



tuft yellowish. Forewing yellowish cream-white with some scattered sooty 



dots ; a subbasal streak and an antemediau somewhat obsolete transverse line 



