NOVITATES ZOOLOGKAE XXIV. 1917. 231 



ON SOME APPAEENTLY NEW NOTODONTIBAE 

 By lord ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D. 



1. Spatalia aifinis spec. iiov. 



?. Similar to plusiata Walk., but much darker. 



Differs from plusiata on the forewings in the colour bemg deep black-brown 

 not chocolate, in the silver T and stigmatic grille bsing larger and farther away 

 and not fusing with pale area of forewing, in the brown apical quadrate patch 

 extending farther back into the pale area, and in the hindwings havuig the 

 basal two-thirds pale buff and outer one-third only dull brown. 



Length of forewing : 30 mm. Expanse : 68 mm. 



Habitat. Upper Aroa River, British New Guhiea, March 1903 (A. S. Meek), 

 2 $?. 



2. Spatalia indistincta spec. nov. 



2. Nearly related to laticostalis Hmpsn. but paler. 



Differs in the pale area of the forewuig being less well defined arid variegated 

 with small streaks and clouded spots, and there is a pale spot in the dark apical 

 patch ; the dark portion of the forewing is paler and clouded with pale violet. 

 Hmdwing is much paler brown. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. Expanse : 56 mm. 



Habitat. TownsvUle, North Queensland (Dodd), 1 ?. 



3. Naprepa fusconubilata spec. nov. 



Nearest to fle.vifera Schaus, but has shorter and broader wings. 



(J. Forewing much less rufous, the outer one-third obliquely clouded and 

 streaked with greenish grey, the two obliquely vertical white spots above vein 

 1 absent and replaced by a longitudinal white line on vein 1, the oblique zigzag 



dark band of forewing less distinct. Hindwings rufous wood-brown not dark 



rufous chestnut, the white and black ocellate spot above tornus enclosed in 

 a grey irrorated patch, the lighter postmedian line longer and more evenly 

 curved. Thorax dark chocolate ivithout whitish tufts. 



?. Similar, but much larger, and has a large whitish tuft on first abdominal 

 segment. 



Length of forewing : <? 41 mm., $ 62 mm. Expanse : 3 92 mm., ? 136 mm. 



Habitat. Las Quignas, near San Esteban, Venezuela (S. M. Klages) ; San 

 Esteban, Venezuela, July 1909 (S. M. Klages) (type, (J San Esteban), 2 (J<J, 1 ?. 



4. Naprepa adusta spec. nov. 



?. Resembles nothing else in the genus, but nearest to pulcheria Druce. 



Antennae brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen huffish cinnamon, a darker 

 median line on patagia. 



Forewing huffish cmnamon suffused with rusty brown, giving the appear- 

 ance of having been scorched, this burnt appearance being much stronger 



