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53. Cascera albiscripta virens .^ub,sp. nov. 



?. Similar to a. albiscripta but paler bronzy olive-green. 

 Habitat. Angabunga River, affluent of St. Joseph's River, British New 

 Guinea, November 1904— February 1905 (A. S. Meek), 1 ?. 



54. Cascera marginata spec. nov. 



9. Antennae bro\vn ; head browuLsh buff ; thorax creamy brown, tegulae 

 and patagia on inner side broadly with hairs tipped with white ; abdomen 

 brownLsh cinnamon. 



Forewing dirty w hite variegated with streak.s ard cloudings of olive-brown, 

 a deep chocolate stigma and a square pure white patch between basal half of 

 veins 2 and 3 ; outer fourth of wing and area below median nervure chocolate- 

 brown suffused with olive ; some indistinct whitish lines and spots in area below 

 median and an irregular white marginal line. Hindwing brownish cinnamon. 



Length of forewing ; 25 mm. Expanse : 56 mm. 



Habitat. Ninaj' Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 3.500 ft., November 1908— January 1909 (A. E. Pratt), 1 ? type ; near Oetakwa 

 River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3,500 ft., October — December 

 1910 (A. S. Meek), 2 ??. 



55. Cascera flavovirens .spec nov. 



?. Antennae brown ; head vinaceous mixed with cream-white ; tegulae 

 claret-colour edged with greenish white, patagia pale yellowish sea-green mixed 

 with white and edged with claret-colour ; rest of thorax and abdomen cinnamon. 



Forewing mossy yellowish sea-green variegated with darker and whitish 

 lines and clouds ; costa with alternate maroon and white oblique bands and 

 patches, a large antemedian angled maroon patch below median with white spot 

 in angle, a pale maroon stigma, a white patch above vein 2, a broad irregular 

 postdiscal maroon band, and a subterminal line of maroon and white cuneate 

 spots. Hindwings cinnamon. 



Length of forewing : 28 mm. Expanse : 63 mm. 



Habitat. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountams, Dutch New Guinea, up to 

 3,500 ft., October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 9. 



56. Cascera olivacea olivacea spec. nov. 



cJ 9. Antennae rusty brown ; head olive mixed with white ; tegulae orange- 

 buff, dark brown at base, rest of thorax buff washed with olive and with central 

 dark brown spot ; abdomen dark cinnamon. 



Forewing velvety olive-brown, with irregular buff and green baso-subbasal 

 marks, costa with white and olive on greenish buff markings, a central irregular 

 olive-buff patch clouded with olive-brown and sharply reduced to half its width 

 from base of vein 2 and with a large and smaller dark olive-brown patch above 

 median ; a white patch above vein 2 and an olive-buff zigzag subterminal line ; 

 frmge golden olive. Hindwing dark cmnamon. 



Length of forewing : o 25 mm., 9 27 mm. Expanse : cJ 57 mm., 9 61 mm. 



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

 3,500 ft., October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 o^ 1 9. 



