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HindiriiHi : brig'ht red, with greenish terminal spots and fringe. 



Underside ocbreons, tinged with bright red in cell of forewing ; the costa 

 speckled with browu, the termen snffnsed with grey-browu ; a dark red outer line ; 

 hindwing with costal area thickly red-speckled, tlie inner half jiale ocbreons ; a 

 browu bent outer line in upper half. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous. 



In the ab. rubrisujfusa the forewing is almost wholly reddish, only the costa 

 and apex remaining olive ; the median shade is absent, and only the outer and 

 subterminal lines are visible. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



2 cJc?, 2 ? ? from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 

 August — September 1910 (Meek) ; 1 ? from near Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., 

 Dutch New Guinea, October — ^December 1910 (Meek) (type) ; 1 ? from Biagi, 

 Mainbare River, British New Guinea, October — December 1906 (Meek), type of 

 ab. rubrisujfusa. 



75. Acrapex melianoides spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull greyish ochreous with fuscous suiFnsion ; the paler ground 

 colour forms two broadening streaks along the cell and submedian interspace, in the 

 former case running up to apex ; costal area diffusely fuscous in the interstices, the 

 veins remaining jiale ; a dark olive-fuscous streak below cell from base widens 

 outwardly beyond middle, becoming more diffuse, its upper edge running oblirjuely 

 to just below apex ; a third fuscous sufl'nsion along inner margin ; in the terminal 

 darker area the veins are slightly paler ; orbicular and reniform stigmata indicated 

 only by blackish dots above and on median vein ; faint traces of a dark dentate 

 outer line ; some dark terminal spots ; fringe grey with a darker line at middle. 



Hindwing : dull dirty grey, darker at termen ; fringe pale with slight rufous 

 tinge. 



Underside dull ochreous grey, the folds of forewing and the whole hindwing 

 rather paler. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull grey. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



4 ? ¥ taken by A. S. Meek on the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch 

 New Guinea, 2000 to 3000 ft., June— September 1910. 



The pale streaks along the folds show traces of a flesh-coloured tinge, which 

 is probably stronger when the insects are quite fresh. Sn[)erficially the insect 

 resembles the European Meliana Jiammea. Its nearest ally seems to be A. hrunnea, 

 Hmps., from S. Africa, which is also recorded from Ceylon, Borneo, New Guinea, and 

 Australia. 



76. Sesamia grisescens spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull cinereous dusted witli dark atoms ; the two folds and the inner 

 margin dull flesh-coloured ochreous, the streaks reaching subterminal line ; inner 

 line marked only by a dark spot on submedian fold ; outer line luiiulate-dentate, 

 very obscure, the tooth on submedian fold marked by a dark spot ; a blackish spot 

 on discocellular and another beyond cell ; fringe concolorons. 



Hindwing : dirty whitish, grey-tinged towards apex and termen ; fringe 

 whitish. 



Underside slightly glossy, uniform dull grey, the iiindwing somewhat paler. 



Head, thorax, aud abdomen dull grey ; palpi externally darker. 



