156 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXII. 1915 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



8c?c?, 1 ? from Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000— 7000 ft, 

 February 1911 (type), and 1 S from Biagi, Mambarc River (A. S. Meek). 



5. Palimpsestes semiobsoleta spec. nov. 



Foreiriny : pearl grey; snbbasal line angled outwards below costa and forming 

 an obliriue black dash near base of submedian fold, with a reddish tinge around and 

 below it ; inner line bigeminate, forming a dark band ; the innermost line divergent 

 and marked vpith a black spot on vein 1 ; the outermost, blackest, oblique and 

 excurved below middle, then indented ; the space beyond grey with the lines 

 subobsolete ; outer line treble, marked on costa mainly, followed at a distance by 

 another equally obscnre, and preceded by the crenulate median line, which passes 

 between the stigmata ; these are small, pale grey, the orbicula round, the reniform 

 long and narrow ; subterminal line indicated by some black marks bej'ond it, 

 ending above in a curved black streak to apex ; close before termen a row of black 

 dashes between veins; fringe white, cut with dark grey beyond veins. 



Hindwing : pale dull grey, with broad fuscous terminal border and indistinct 

 dark outer band ; fringe white. 



Underside glossy pale grey ; terminal borders darker ; costa of forewing 

 htriped with dark grey. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen mixed dark and light grey; underside and legs 

 pale grey ; the tarsi dotted with black. 



1 $ from Pengalengan, Preanger, Java. Nearest to orbicularis Moore, 

 anguligera Hmps., etc. 



6. Polyploca curvicosta spec. nov. 

 Forewing : dull grey tinged with brownish ; the inner line fine and black, at 

 one-third, curved, bent on submedian fold ; preceded by two dark lines at costa, 

 which become divergent and double towards inner margin, more or less filled in 

 with dark, forming a band ; a black spot near base of submedian fold, followed by 

 a tuft of pale scales ; onter line fine and black, with another parallel close beyond 

 it, outcurved above, bent inwards at vein 4, and indented on submedian fold, where 

 it approaches inner line ; followed by two dark-grey outcurved strongly lunnlate- 

 deutate lines ; subterminal line pale, Innnlate, followed by dark Innulate marks, 

 and met by a strong black streak from apex ; a fine black terminal festoon ; 

 fringe grey, with a fine pale line at base : stigmata plumbeous, outlined with 

 yellow ; the orbicular rounded, placed above the cell-fold; the reniform somewhat 

 pyriform, broad below and curved beneath orbicular ; a small round plumbeous 

 spot ringed with yellowish above vein 6 beyond the outer line. 



Uindwlng : fuscous brown, darker along termen ; the fringe pale brown. 



Underside glossy grey, the termen darker in both wings ; costa of forewing 

 beyond middle whitish grey, swollen into a small triangular blotch just 

 below apex. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous grey ; palpi pale, with the upper edge 

 broadly and two narrow lateral lines externally, dark olive. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 cJfrom the Khasia Hills, Assam, November 1896 (native collector). Dis- 

 tinguished by the shorter forewing with strongly curved costa. 



