250 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



63. Rhuda posttriangulum spec. nov. 



(J. Differs from iuisa Schaus in the forewiiig being narrower and more 

 pointed, and in the baso-subbasal bluish white oblique band being prolonged 

 farther along vein 1. On the hindwing in the absence of the terminal brown 

 band, in having an indistinct or rather ill-defined dirty brown bar running up 

 from tornus to almost base of wing, and in the termen being deeply concave not 

 convex, and the apex and tornus are produced to long blunt points, making 

 the wing absolutely triangular instead of rounded. The hindwing is yellow 

 suffused with dirty brownish grej'. 



Length of forewing : 31 mm. Expanse : 69 mm. 



Habitat. Potaro, British Guiana, May 1908 (S. M. Klages), 3 <?<? type ; 

 Omai, British Guiana, June 1908 (S. M. Klages), 1 S. 



64. Hoplitis cimiamomea spec. nov. 



(J ?. Close to strigata Moore. Antennae deep rufous ; head brown ; thorax 

 grey, slightly mixed with brown hairs ; abdomen rufous cinnamon. 



Forewing rufous cinnamon ; costa and a concave band from apex curving 

 round to middle of costa deep rufous ; within this line and just behind it three 

 pale grey patches ; a slate-grej' cloudj' patch in centre of disc ; termen and 

 inner margin from vein 4 to middle of inner margin including vein 1 broadly 



slate-grey ; a large deep rufous patch above tornus. Hindwing semihyaline 



white, a blackish patch at tornus. 



Length of forewmg : 33 mm. Expanse : 75 mm. 



Habitat. Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dvitch New Gumea, 

 3,500 ft., November 1908— January 1909 (A. E. Pratt), 3 63, 1 ? (<J type). 



65. Hoplitis insignifica spec. nov. 



$. Antennae rufous brown, shaft grey ; head and thorax dirty brownish 

 mouse-grey, a dark streak in centre of thorax and on patagia ; abdomen dirty 

 brown-grey. 



Forewing mouse-grey with dark grey streaks on costa ; ante- and post- 

 median dark grey lines. Hindwing dirty white, passing into grey-browni along 



costa, apex, and termen ; an ash-grey and dark patch at tornus. 



Length of forewing : 34 mm. Expanse : 74 mm. 



Habitat. Dammer Island, November 1898 (H. Kiihn). 2 $?. 



66. Hoplitis dasychiroides spec. nov. 



?. Antennae shaft crimson, pectinations black ; head and thorax mouse- 

 grey ; abdomen greyish white, a root patch on first segment. 



Forewing mouse-grey ; three or four black-brown lines run from costa 

 across cell to median nervure and some oblique dark grey bands one-third from 

 apex on costo-subcostal area ; a postdiscal curved and slightly sinuous black 



line and a shadowy darker grey subterminal bai:d. Hindwing semihyaline 



white, outer one-third slate-grey. Second specimen forewing more brownish. 



Length of forewing : 31 mm. Expanse : 68 mm. 



Habitat. Isumeb, IS. W. African Protectorate. 



