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of thick white scales, the ground-colour appeaiuig in patches, a broad oblique 

 postmedian band and a broad anteterminal band in wliich latter runs a sub- 

 terminal white line of short streaks ; some black spots on costa and a black 

 antemedian band reaching to above vein 1 ; fringe chequered sooty grey and 

 sage-green.— — Hindwing cinnamon grey-brown. 



Length of forewing : 23 mm. Expanse : 52 mm. 



Habitat. Biagi, JVIambare, North-east British New Guinea, April 1906 (A. S. 

 Meek), 1 $. 



39. Stauropus tripla^osus spec. nov. 



?. Anteimae brown ; head cinnamon-grey ; thorax brown, each hah with 

 outer half dirty whitish grey so that the colour appears grizzled ; abdomen 

 very pale cinnamon-brown. 



Forewmg whitish grey powdered with darker scales and m several large 

 patches washed with greenish buff ; a large patch beyond discocellulars running 

 from costa into the \^'ing, a baso-subbasal patch below median, and a patch 

 between inner margin and centre of vein 2 dark brown slightly sprinkled with 

 grey ; double zigzag ante- and postmedian lines and a sinuous subterminal 



hah-line also dark brown. Hindwing pale cinnamon-brown, costal one-third 



grey with large subapical dark brown patch. 



Length of forewing : 28 mm. Expanse : 63 mm. 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 500 ft., February 

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



40. Stauropus frugilegus spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae brown ; head and thorax mouse-grey ; abdomen mouse-grey. 



Forewhig mouse-grey suffused with olive-green, double ante- and post- 

 median darker Imes, the space between the double lines and also between the 

 two lines of each double line a sprmkling of bluish or lavender scales producing 

 a glaucous appearance ; a sinuous subterminal dark line beyond which are 



also bluish scales. Hindwing duty white ; abdominal area hauy buff ; costal 



area same colour as forewing, outer one-fifth below this pale brownish cinnamon, 

 tapering to vein 1. 



Length of forewmg : 23 mm. Expanse : 52 mm. 



Habitat. Rook Island (New Guinea), August — September 1913, 2 JS 

 (A. S. Meek). 



. 41. Stauropus viridogrisea spec. nov. 



3. Antennae brown ; head rufous cinnamon, strongly mixed with whitish ; 

 thorax cinnamon so strongly mixed with white as to appear dull whitish grey ; 

 abdomen pale cinnamon-brown. 



Forewing brown, outer half densely, basal half less densely suffused with 

 white and spangled with patches of metallic green scales ; a number of dark 

 indistmct sinuous double lines cross the disc of the wing, a waved subterminal 



dark brown hair-line. Hindwing pale greyish cinnamon-brown, a large dark 



brown subapical patch powdered with green scales. 



?. Much larger and paler « ith the sinuous lines much more distinct. 



