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dark gronnd-colonr of the c?. The spots are : A cell-bar on the forewing ; two 

 cell-dots on the hiudwing, and a median cnrved row of more or less ovate spots. 

 A series of both sexes from Mount Goliath, Snow Monntains. 



3. Dicallaneura amabilis casis snbsp. nov. 



? . Area limbalis alarum anticarum supra et subtas magis quam in subsp. 

 J), a. amabilis dicta extensa. 



Our series of S ? differs constantly from all our D. a. amabilis from British 

 New (iiiiuea in the olive-ochraceous basal area of the forewius above being 

 continued along the hindmargin, so that the pale yellow disc does not reach the 

 margin, the border of the distal margin also extending a little along the hind- 

 margin. 



On the underside the hindmargin of the forewing is shaded with fascous, 

 and the marginal and submargiual lines are continued below M" by fuscous scaling, 

 especially the marginal one. The transverse chestnut line, which emanates from 

 the lower corner of the apical area, extends to M-, where it meets (or nearly) a 

 streak which is situated at the hind side of that vein. 



A number of ? ? from Mount Goliath, Snow Mountains. 



ON THE GEOMETRID GENUS EUBOBDETA Roths. 



By Dn. K. JORDAN. 



'T^HE genus was erected in Nov. Zool. xi. 'p. 320 (19U4) for four species of 

 -^ Geometridae discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea, and figured 

 by us on PI. III. of the volume cited. These bright-coloured species appear to be 

 restricted to median and higher altitudes. In the collection made by A. S. Meek 

 during the first months of the present year in the Snow Mountains of southern Dutch 

 New Guinea there are again four species, all differing from the former ones, but 

 three of them evidently taking in that district the place of three of the former 

 species. A very noteworthy point in the differences which the new species display 

 is that two species differ on the underside precisely in the same way from their 

 respective representative forms of British New Guinea, the brigiit-orange subterminal 

 bands of E. eichho) ni Roths. (19t)4) and lu/jjocala Roths. (1901) being of a peculiar 

 bronze colour in the corresponding new species, a very striking parallelism. 



The antennae are pectinated in both sexes with the exception of the ajjical 

 third, the pectinations being long in the c?, especially those on the outer side, and 

 short in the ?. The first segment of the palj)i is rough- and long-scaled, the second 

 smooth at the side, as long as the first, and tlie third small and smooth. The hind- 

 tibia of the S is incrassate and bears on the inside a tuft of long hairs concealed in 

 a groove. The slender process projecting from the edg<; of the basal groove of the 

 abdomen is present only in the SS. The neuration is the same in both sexes. The 

 forewing has five subcostals, two branching off from the cell; the other tiiree are 

 stalked together, S(!'' being thrown off at one-third to one-half between SO'' and the 

 apex ; SO' closely approaches the costal or anastomoses with it for a slinrt distance ; 



