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Forewing : basal one-fifth scarlet with basal and subbasal zigzag black lines, 

 the latter only to vein 1 ; rest of wing, basal half brick-red somewhat tinged 

 with brown and with two double lunate crenulate purple-grey cross-bands and 

 a small black stigma, outer half purplish sooty brown-grey with a huffish yellow 

 space between veins 4 and 1 just beyond middle of wing, 1 indistinct median 

 dark crenulate line and 2 postmedian distinct ones. Hindwings bright brick- 

 red washed slightly with grey on outer one-third. 



Length of forewing : 62 mm. Expanse : 136 mm. 



Habitat. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 ?. 



96. Macronadata brunnea spec. nov. 



(?. Uniform mummy-brown ; liindwings paler ; antemedian and post- 

 median lines dark rufous indistinct, a subterminal line of streaks chocolate 

 rufous, a large stigma. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. Expanse : 49 mm. 



Habitat. Waya, Lado Enclave, June 1912. 



97. Omichlis pseudolibatrix spec. nov. 



?. Except the red colouring, this species has a general appearance of Sco- 

 liopteryx libatrix. 



Antennae brown ; head brownish lavender-grey ; thorax pale wood-brown 

 suffused with lavender-grey ; abdomen pale sooty brown. 



Forewings wood-brown tinged with yellow ; a yellowish grey stigma, on 

 basal half some indLstinct buff and dark subbasal spots, and beyond these some 

 incomplete serrated dark sinuous lines from costa to median vein, basal two-fifths 

 of inner margin and a large patch joining on to it buff strongly freckled with 

 rufous ; on outer half an oblique sooty crenulate line followed by two curved 



lines of sooty coalescent lunules and a zigzag whitish subterminal line. Hmd- 



wmg sooty grey-brown, a buff and rufous patch on abdommal fold above tornus. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. Expanse : 53 mm. 



Habitat. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Gumea, up 

 to 3,500 ft., October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 ?. 



98. Omichlis plusiotis spec. nov. 



(J ?. Antennae brown above, white below ; head frons dark rufous, vertex 

 white ; thorax vinaceous brown, patagia dark rufous ; abdomen sooty vinaceous 

 brown. 



Forewing vinaceous yellowish grey freckled with dull rufous and -nith 

 some indistinct cloudy streaks ; a subbasal chocolate patch below vein 1 fol- 

 lowed by a sUver line from median fold to iimer margin consisting of two joined 

 silver moons ; an oblique median dark brown band between which and the 

 silver line is a rufous mark, a curved postmedian dark sooty grey Ime, and a 

 crenulate dark rufous subterminal line. ^Hindwing rufous chocolate grey- 

 brown, a sUver dot above tornus. 



Length of forewmg : <J 23 mm., ? 21 mm. Expanse : S 52 mm., ? 47 mm. 



Habitat. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up 



