4B() NoviTATES ZoorooiCAE XXIV. ini". 



Melanothrix altemans Pagenst. 



Mdanothrix alternans Pagenstecher ?, Iris, vol. iii. p. 13 (1890) (Palawan). 

 Melanothrix fumosa Swinhoe 3 (? errore), Ann. 3Iaj. Nat. Hist. 7 (XVI). p. 142. No. 1 (1905) 

 (Brunei, Borneo). 



Here fumosa Swinhoe is evidently the o of what v,e have in collections as 

 alternans Pagenst. from Kina Balu. I have never seen Palawan specimens, and 

 if they should be slightly different the Bomean form -nill have to stand as Melano- 

 thrix alternans fumosa Swinli. ; but until this has been proved the name must 

 remain for those from both islands M. alternans Pagenst. 



Habitat. Palawan ; Brunei ; Kina Balu. 



The last species is xanthomelas Griinb. 



Melanothrix xanthomelas Griinb. 



Melanothrix xanthomelas Griinb., Seitz, Grosssdimett. d. Erde. 



We only know the $ of this quite aberrant species. 



Habitat. Kina Balu, Borneo. 



The genus Drtpanojana follows now. 



Drepanojana Jasciata Auriv. 



Drepanojana jasciata Aurivillius, Entom. Tidskr. 1893. p. 212. No. 25 (Sierra Leone). 

 Drepanojana apicalis Aurivillius, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 18 (vi) p. 353 (1896) (W. Africa). 

 Melanothris maeonia Druoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 18 (vi) p. 353 (1896) (W. Africa). 



The only remark to be made here is that maeonia Druce and fasciata Aur. 

 are the ?§ of apicalis Auriv. 



Habitat. Sierra Leone. 



Lasiomorpha comes here ; it contains two species, one of which I describe 

 below as new. 



Lasiomorpha meeki sp. nov. 



3. Differs from L. noakesihy its chocolate-maroon, not purplish -black colour. 

 Fore wings differ in the costa being brilliant orange not black in the whitish 

 semihyaline patch being regidar not strongly diminished towards tornus, in 

 the band crossing the hyaline patch not being an ill-defined sinuate band of 

 scattered black scales, but consisting of a strong curved double band reaching 

 from costa to inner margin, distad deep maroon-chocolate, basad orange, and 

 in a broad streak of rufous between veins 1 and 2 from base of wing almost to 

 transverse band. 



Hindwing bright chocolate-maroon, not purplish chocolate-black. 



Length of forcwing : 38 mm. Expanse : 80 mm. 



Habitat. Owgarra, Aroa River, British New Guinea, May 1908 (A. S. 

 Meek), 2^3. 



The next genus is Melanergon with a single species, the typical subspecies 

 of which was included in his Cotana by Walker. Melanergon ditlers from Cotana 

 by vein 5 of the forewing being absent, by vein 3 of that wing arising much 

 farther from angle of cell, in the hindwing by vein 3 arising farther from angle 

 of cell, and by the sexes being non-dimorphic. Ihe single species vidua Walk. 

 falls into 4 subspecies as follows : 



