242 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



35. Stauropus purpurasceus spec. nov. 



<J. Antennae deep brown ; head and thorax chocolate maroon-purple 

 powdered somewhat with white ; abdomen pale wood-brown. 



Forewing chocolate maroon-purple powdered with pale lavender and metallic 

 apple-green scales, the absence in places of these scales gives the wings the 

 appearance of being spotted with brighter purple patches ; a cinnamon-white 

 discocellular .stigma, an irregular broken postdiscal green band produced by 



the conglomeration of the green scales. Hindwing whitish washed witli 



purplish cinnamon, darker towards margins ; a deep purple-cinnamon patch 

 at apex. 



?. Similar, larger, and with denser green scaling ; no stigma in forewmg ; 

 hindwing cinnamon grey-brown ; purple apical patch powdered with green. 



Length of forewing : S 19 mm., ? 25 mm. Expanse : S 42 mm., ? 56 mm. 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Gumea, 5,000-7,000 ft., 

 February 1911 (A. S. Meek), 4 <J<J, 2 $?. 



36. Stauropus viridinitens spec. nov. 



S ?. Antennae cinnamon-brown ; palpi dark brown, thud joint orange, 

 very shaggy ; head grey with large tuft of hau- on vertex ; thorax brown, the 

 very long haii- tipped with long tips of yellowish green ; abdomen chocolate- 

 cinnamon. 



Forewing greyish white, densely covered over with metallic green scales ; 

 a double antemedial line purple-brown, a double irregular sinuous postmedian 

 band partly of lunules, partly of irregular patches purple-brown, a purple-brown 



subterminal band of streaks. Hindwing chocolate-cinnamon ; apical patch 



purple-brown, densely coated with green scales. 



Length of forewing : 3 24 mm., $ 27 mm. Expanse : 3 55 mm., $ 62 mm. 



Habitat. Biagi, Mambare River, North-east British New Guinea, 5,000 ft., 

 January 1906 (A. S. Meek) (type ?), 7 <?,?, 1 ?. 



37. Stauropus leucophaeus spec. nov. 



?. Antennae bright brown ; head and thorax pale coffee-brown mixed 

 with dirty white ; abdomen dirty brownish cinnamon. 



Forewing deep chocolate-brown powdered densely with white scaks, a 

 band before middle, a broken kregular patchlLke postmedian band, and a zigzag 

 subterminal line entirely without white scales ; a broad irregular postdiscal 



area grey, as is the double stigma. Hindwing pale chocolate-cinnamon i 



apical patch brown and white. 



Length of forewing: 25 mm. Expanse: 555 mm. 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5,000-7,000 ft., 

 February 1911 (A. S. Meek), 1 ?. 



38. Stauropus glaucoviridis spec. nov. 



?. Antennae amber-brown ; head and thorax pale bluish sage-green, hairs 

 each tipped with white, inner edges of patagia and patch in centre of thorax 

 dirty grey ; abdomen cinnamon wood-brown. 



Forewing bluish sage-green encrusted with a here-and-there broken layer 



