l-i2 XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. lillo. 



band ; a white snbterminal streak at anal angle to vein 2 ; the tcrmen above 

 vein 2 shortly whitish grey; IViuge wliitish grey with paler basal line, above vein 

 6 blackish. 



Underside grey-brown, with the termen and fringe lilac-grey; tiie cellspots 

 and lines darker ; the snbterminal preceded by a brown shade, and edged with 

 pale grey at anal angle of hindwing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ; venter and ]iectus jialer ; tarsi brown 

 with pale joints ; the fringe of mid-tibiae white. 



Expanse of wings : 58 mm. 



1 c? from the Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, November 

 10U8 to January 1909. Superficially resembling (>. copidophora Hmps., also from 

 New Guinea, but the dark postmedian area is three times as wide. 



16. Ophiusa aviceps spec. nov. 



Foreiring : grey-brown, flushed with fuscous along costa; subbasul and inner 

 lines parallel, obliijue outwards, chestnut brown with paler edges ; antemedian 

 band jialer towards inner margin, reddish grey, the veins across it paler; a white 

 dot on discocellnlar ; median line strongly curved, towards costa pale edged, 

 coalescing with outer line below costa ; this obliquely sinuous outwards to vein 0, 

 there angled and incurved evenly to inner margin close to median line ; it is edged 

 by a tine, pale line followed by a dark one ; the space between median and outer 

 lines deep brown ; a dark grey shade before subtermiual line, which is obscurely 

 dentate-lunulate, the teeth marked on vein by black white-tipped dashes, with a 

 spot of white scales at inner margin ; a triangular brown blotch at apex, nearly 

 reaching the angle of outer line ; minute black snbterminal dots ; fringe iron-grev. 



Hindwing : dark shining olive fuscous, with a spot of white scales at anal 

 angle ; the fringe blackish grey, with pale basal line. 



Underside dull greyish fuscous ; the lines darker ; the snbterminal edged with 

 paler ; a pale grey cloud at apex of forewing. 



Head and thorax brown ; the abdomen fuscous ; spurs of middle- and hiudlegs 

 black dotted with snow-white. 



Expanse of wings : 58 mm. 



1 S from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, April 1906 (A. S. Meek). 



17. Ophiusa curvilimes spec nov. 



Foreioing : with the basal area grey-brown with some darker spots anW 

 striae, edged by the vertical, straight, pale, inner line, with a dark line before it ; 

 space beyond to median line pinkish ochreons, shaded with grey-brown in its 

 inner half, more broadly towards costa; median line strongly arched, from before 

 middle of inner margin to middle of costa ; outer line outwardly oblique and curved 

 to vein 6, where it is acutely angled outwards, then evenly incurved, followed by 

 a tine pale line with darker line beyond, and a broad diffuse brown shade ; space 

 between median and outer lines deep olive-brown ; terminal area lilac-grey ; the 

 apex with a large dark brown curved blotch, edged on inner and outer sides by 

 a yellowish line, the latter curved to meet angle of outer line ; a row of black 

 subtermiual spots ; fringe pinkish grey with a pale basal line. 



Hindwing ; olive fuscous, the terminal half darker ; the termen itself from 

 vein 6 to 2 narrowly grey ; fringe grey, fuscous at apex.. 



