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100. Caprimima aurantiomarginata sp. nov. 



cJ. Head, frous, and antenuae rufous oranj^'e, vertex liver-brown glossed with 

 pnrple ; thorax liver-brown strongly glossed with pnrple ; abdomen brown, anal 



tuft large and wide, centre grev, sides dark brown. Forewing witli eosta 



strongly arched, liver-brown strongly glossed and washed with reddish-purple, 



costal and terminal margins broadly bright reddish orange. Hindwiug brownish 



wood-grey. 



Length of forewing : 9-5 mm. 



Ilah. Arawa, Bougainville, Decambar 19U7 ; Buin, Bougainville, Januarv 

 1908; Isabel Island, June 1899— July 1900; Solomon Islands (A. S. Meek). 

 (Type, Arawa.) 



161. Utriculifera varieg'ata sp. nov. 



S. Head wood-grey ; antenuae serrated rufoui brown ; bladder neir base black, 

 flattened and hollowed out with serrated edges ; thorax yellowish pale wood- 

 brown ; abdomen ash-grey, last two segments and anal tnft pale wood-brown. 



Forewing: basal third obliquely cream-butf, at outer corner on inner margin 



a brown lunule, and above median fold an orange spot; outer two-thirds huffish 

 jiale wood-brown saturated with dark brown, a costal and terminal row of brown- 

 black spots, a zigzag oblique whitish line beyond middle, inner margin strongly 



convex. Hindwing: basal third greyish white, outer two-thirds wood-brown, a 



longitudinal buff b uid runs from termen along vein 4 to middle of cell. 



Length of for. wing : 10 — \\'^ mm. 



Ilab. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft., March 1906 (A. S. 

 Meek). 



162. Utriculifera utricularia sp. nov. 



<?. Head pale wood-brown ; antennae much less serrate than in preceding 

 species, the bladder is so deeply serrated, however, that it appears to be divided 



np into a number of lamellae ; abdomen ash-grey, anal tuft huffish yellow. 



Forewing : basal half obliquely inwards pale huffish wood-brown, with three brown 

 marks on eosta, the centre one running obliquely across cell, and a number of 

 indistinct brown dots and scalings ; outer half buff with a few brown dots and 

 .suffusions of scales. Hindwing brownish buff. 



Length of forewing : 9o mm. 



Hab. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft., April 1900 (A. S. 

 Meek). 



163. Stictosia pallidimaculata sj). nov. 



S. Head creamy ; antennae brownish yellow ; thorax and abdomen yellowish 

 bnff, anal tnft very large and darker. Forewing wood-brown, base, two wedge- 

 shaped marks on eosta and an oblique median band more or less interrupted 



pale cream-bnff. Hind>ving greyish buff, a broad wood-brown terminal band 



from apex to vein 1, fringe buff. 



Length of forewing : 95 mm. 



Hab. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft., January 1900 (A. S. 

 Meek). 



