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wing semihyaline whitish, more or less thickly clothed with rusty cinnamon hairs 

 especially on abdominal and costal regions. 



Length of forewing : cj 22 mm.. $ 29 mm. Expanse : d 50 mm., 5 67 mm. 



Habitat. 3 cJeJ, 6 ??, Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 (S. M. Klagea) 

 (? type). 



32. Trichoraoplata stigmatica spec. nov. 



(S. Antennae amber-yellow ; head dark buff ; thorax and abdomen rusty 

 cinnamon. 



Forewing rusty cinnamon, disc beyond middle semihj'aline, basal one-third 

 of wing washed with pale brown m type and with blackish in second specimen ; 

 at apex of cell a veniform black stigma with buff centre and an orange spot 



outside it distad ; a large rufous orange patch on vein 2. Hindwing 



semihyaline white ; costal and abdominal areas densely clothed with cmnamon- 

 buff hairs. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. Expanse : 46 mm. 



Habitat. 2 (JcJ, Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 (S. M. Klages). 



33. Stauropus nitidus spec. nov. 



o. Antennae amber-brown ; head and thorax yellowish golden bronze ; 

 abdomen brownish cinnamon. 



Forewing deep rufous chocolate densely powdered with metallic green ; 

 a subbasal spot and an angulated streak below median white, a white irregular 

 discocellular patch ; a postmedian band of white lunules angled outwards and 

 a postdiscal green band angled mwards meet between veins 3 and 4 and form 

 a cross (x), the inner, upper, and lower arms being formed by the band of white 



lunules and the outer by the green band. Hindwing : basal three-fifths pale 



cinnamon clothed with yellowish hairs, outer two-fifths darker cinnamon. 



$. Similar, but the metallic green powdering much denser, and in conse- 

 quence the insect appears almost green. 



Length of forewing : <J 22 mm., ? 24 mm. Expanse : ij 49 mm., ? 53 mm. 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5,000-7,000 ft., 

 January— February 1911 (A. S. Meek), 7 (JcJ, 2 ??. 



34. Stauropus flavicollis spec. nov. 



<J ?. Antennae brown ; head and tegulae huffish yellow, base of tegulae 

 white ; rest of thorax chocolate-purple, most of the haiis with small white tips ; 

 abdomen clayey wood-brown. 



Forewing chocolate-purple powdered with white scales, the absence of 

 these white scales in places causes the wing to appear banded with sinuous and 

 zigzag dark transverse lines ; along costa patches of metallic apple-green, 

 some similar green scales near centre of disc, three postdiscal green lunate patches. 

 — —Hindwing pale cinnamon, apex with chocolate-purple and white patch. 



Length of forewmg : cJ 20 mm., $ 23 mm. Expanse : 3 45 mm., ? 52 mm. 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5,000-7,000 ft., 

 February 1911 (A. S. Meek), 1 (J, 1 ? (? type). 



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