(240) 



Length of forewing : 12-5 mm. 



llab. Near Oetakwu Iliver, Suow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., 

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



141. Neoscaptia cupreonitens sp. no v. 



?. Head and thora.x steel-green, antennae brown, basal two-thirds of jiatasia 



white; abdomen deep black, anal tuft white. Forewing: basal third metallic 



bright steel-green, a white spot on subcostal nervnre and a smaller one above 

 vein 1, outer two-thirds metallic coppery red glossed with blue on basal half, 



costal and terminal edges black. Hindwing: basal half snow-white; outer half, 



abdominal and tornal areas deep black. 



Length of forewing : 13-5 mm. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5UUU — TOuO ft., Februar\' 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



142. Neoscaptia albicoUis sp. nov. 



(J. Head steel-green, antennae brown ; thorax steel-green, tegulae snow-white, 



abdomen black, anal tuft cream-white. -Forewing : basal fiftli bright steel-blue 



concave on outside, a wide irregular white patch-like transverse antemedian band 

 snow-white, a median band of deep brilliant steel-blue, onter half of wing copper}- 

 crimson-maroon edged with black. Hindwing : basal half semihyaline snow- 

 white, tornal area and outer half black. 



?. Duller, white on forewing re])laced by whitish cream, steel-blue replaced 

 by black, outer half of forewing dark chestnut. 



Length of forewing : S H mm., ? 12 min. 



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

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



143. neoscaptia basinitens sp. nov. 



?. Head and thora.K black glossed with dull steel-green, antennae black, 

 tegulae white; abdomen black, anal tuft greyish buff. Forewing: basal two- 

 fifths bright steel-green blue, outer three-fifths coppery chestnut edged with black. 

 Hindwing : basal half white, outer half dull black. 



Length of forewing : 11-5 mm. 



llab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, .^OOO— TOGO ft., February 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



144. Scaptosyle plumosus sp. nov. 



3. Head and antennae black; thorax black, tegulae and basal half of patagia 



golden yellow ; abdomen black, anal tuft yellowish grey. Forewing : base black, 



basal two-thirds of wing golden yellow followed by an indented black transverse 



band, outer third maroon chestnut edged with black. Hindwing golden yellow, 



apex from costa to vein 3 black. 



9 . Differs in the forewing in having the black band and margins wider and 

 the chestnut darker and duller. On the hindwing tlie black forms the outer third 

 of wing, narrowing to tornus. A huge cushion-like anal tuft. 



Length of forewing : c? 13-5 mm. ; ? 14-5 mm. 



llab. Kina Balu, North Borneo (J. Waterstradt). 



