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is probiibly stroni^^er when the insects are (initf fresh. Snperticinlly the insect 

 resoiuhles the Enropeau Meliant fiimmei. Its nearest ally seems to.bL- ^1. brnnnfa 

 Hraps. from S. Africa, which is also recorded from Xew (Jninca mid Anstralia. 



22. Sesamia grisescens s|)ec. nov. 



Forewinq : dull cinereous dusted with dark atoms ; tlie two folds and the 

 inner margin dnll flesh-coloured ochreous, the streaks reaching snhtermiual line ; 

 inner line marked only by a dark spot on snbraedian fold; outer lini' hiiiniate- 

 dentate, very obscure, the tooth on submedian fold marked by a dark spot : 

 a blackish spot on discocellular and another beyond cell ; fringe concolorons. 



Iliii(hciiiq : dirty whitish, grey-tinged towards apex and terraen : fringe 

 whitish. 



Underside slightly glossy, uniform dull grey, the hindwing somen-hat paler. 



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



Expanse of wings : c? 26^32 mm. : ? 32 mm. 



4 cJ(?, 2 ¥ ?, taken by A. S. Meek on the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., 

 Dutch New Guinea, 2000— 3U00 ft., August— September 1910 {t>//je), and 1 (J, 1 ? 

 from Haidana, C'olliugwood Bay, British New Guinea, April 1907, also taken 

 by Meek : the pair from Haidana have purer white hindwiugs. The ? is 

 consistently larger tlian the <S, which varies considerably in size. The species 

 comes nearest to 'S'. calamistis Hmps. from S. Africa. 



