314 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1017. 



ample, termen faintly waved, somewhat gibbou.s in middle, but not angulated ; 

 nearly as forewing, the purplish band rather broader, running from apex to 

 about three-fourths abdominal margin. 



Both wings beneath deep purphsh grey as far as the dark-grey band of 

 upperside, only with the hindmargin of both wings and base of costa of hindwing 

 pale cream-butt ; distal area pale cream-buff, unmarked. 



Kumusi River, N.E. British New Guinea, low elevation, June 1907 (A. S. 

 Meek). Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



49. Chrysocraspeda elaeophragma spec. nov. 



(J, 19-20 mm. Head pale, mixed with rufous. Thorax above olivaceous 

 anteriorly, plumbeous to blackish slaty in the middle, rufous posteriorly ; abdo- 

 men above rufous with some pale admixture and bordered bj' a darker Une ; 

 underside pale. 



Forewing witli termen not or scarcely obUque from apex to R-, gentlj- curved 

 to M, then exceedingly oblique, behind M' faintly subconcave, hindmargin less 

 than two-thirds the length of costa ; whitish buff, thickly speckled and strigu- 

 lated with rufous, the resultant tone salmon-buff ; costal margin olive, grej-est 

 proximally ; lines olive-grey ; antemedian from before one-third costa to middle 

 of hindmargin, somewhat curved anteriorly ; postmedian from two-thirds 

 costa, nearly parallel with termen in anterior half, bent about M-, a little incurved 

 behind, reaching hindmargin near tornus ; cell-speck more or less elongate ; 

 some oUve shading in distal area between il' and tornus ; terminal line rather 

 thick, broadening at apex, dark olive ; fringe yellowish, mixed (except near 



tornus) with olive. Hindwing elongate, with termen waved, very strongly 



convex, bent in middle ; an elongate white cell-spot ; first line curved, close to 

 base ; postmedian bent, but less so than termen ; terminal line thick ; fringe 

 yellowish, mixed (except at apex) with oUve. 



Underside with the markings more indistinct. 



Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea : Upper Setekwa River, 2,000 ft., 

 August — September 1910, 6 oo, including the type ; near Oetakwa River, 

 up to 3,500 ft., October— December 1910, 6 S3- All in coll. Tring Museum. 



SuBFAM. GEOMETRINAE. 

 50. Ectropis farracearia inculta subsp. nov. 



cj 9- In general sUghtly narrower winged than /. farracearia Leech {Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (6.) xix. 340), though rather variable in this respect, as well as 

 in depth of colour (densitj' of the dark irroration) ; the only $ rather broad- 

 winged, recalling a Gnophos. Always more uniform than the name-type, with 

 less strong dark suffusions, distal area less darkened, beneath without definite 

 dark distal band ; forewing above without the characteristic white anterior 

 patch between the median and postmedian lines. 



Vrianatong, Tibet, 7 <J<J, 1 ?, in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Possibly a separate species. As variations in the venation are always 

 worth putting on record in the Boarmia group, it should be .stated that while 

 in all the examples SC and SC- are coincident, in a few these are slightly con- 

 nected either with C or with SC'-', in the rest free. 



