260 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



to 3,500 ft., October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 <J type ; Upper Setekwa 

 River, Snow Mountains, 2,000-3,000 ft., September 1910 (A. S. Meek), 1 <? ; Ninay 

 Valley, Central Arfak Mountain.s, Dutch New Guinea, 3,500 ft., November 1908— 

 January 1909 (A. E. Pratt), 1 ?. 



99. Omichlis mediofasciata spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae brown, shaft pale cuinamon ; head mixed pale grey and 

 cinnamon ; thorax brownish cinnamon washed with grey ; abdomen cinnamon- 

 brown. 



Forewmg vinaceous cinnamon ; stigma pale rufous, two antemedian and 

 one postmedian double darker lines, between the stigma and the postmedian 

 double line is a sooty smgle line from below subcostal vein to inner margin ; a 

 heavy chocolate rufous band from base to termen at vem 5 (angle) along median. 



Hind wing brownish cinnamon, some irregular rufous-brown marks above 



tornus. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. Expanse : 50 mm. 



Habitat. Biagi, Mambare River, North-east New Guinea, 5,000 ft., AprU 

 1906 (A. S. Meek), 2 S3. 



100. Pachychira excellens spec. nov. 



(?. Antennae rufous ; head vinaceous mauve ; thorax vinaceous mauve 

 passing into cream-bufi behind ; abdomen creamy white sufiused with mauve. 



Forewing bright heliotrope-mauve with strong silvery gloss ; a buff stigma, 

 a mauve luae from base along median to vem 4 where it is sharply angled upwards 

 and reaches apex ; below this line are a number of cloudings giving a watered 

 silk appearance ; a subapical duUer more sooty mauve patch ; there is a large 

 projecting lappet from mner margin. Hindwing white. 



Length of forewing : 32 mm. Expanse : 73 mm. 



Habitat. Prestea, 70 miles inland from Sekondi, Gold Coast. 



101. Pachychira olivaceoJusca spec. nov. 



5. Antennae brown ; head and thorax olivaceous mauve-brown ; abdomen 

 wood-brown. 



Forewing mauve-brown, some dark olivaceous bufi markings and patches 

 in cell and on subterminal one-third of wing ; a deep chocolate rufous band 



runs from middle of inner margin to just below apex. Hmdwmg wood-brown, 



paler on costal half. 



Length of forewing : 26 mm. E.xpanse : 58 mm. 



Habitat. Moyamba, Sierra Leone (Dr. Cator), 1 ?. 



102. Scalmicauda bisecta spec. nov. 



?. Antennae dark brown ; head black-brown freckled with lavender-grey ; 

 tegulae black-brown ; rest of thorax greyish cinnamon mauve ; abdomen dark 

 buff. 



Forewing greyish cinnamon-mauve, costal two-fifths, a wedge-shaped band 

 along postmedian line, and a patch behind tornus brownish chocolate ; two 

 oblique antemedian and an oppo.sitcly oblique postmedian Ime whitish, as are 



