470 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXIV. 1917. 



wing below cell ; a postmedian band of intranervular coalescent golden-yellow 

 patches, the upper four wedge-shaped, the lower four arrowhead-shaped, the 

 points of all truncated.- — • — Hindwing same ground-colour but only six patches 

 in postmedian band, all of which are arrowhead-shaped, the lower three only 

 having their points truncated. 



Length of forewing : 32 mm. Expanse : 71 mm. 



Habitat. Aroa River, British New Guinea. 



Cotana variegata sp. nov. 



(J. Antennae brown ; head cinnamon-rufous ; thorax chestnut ; abdomen 

 orange. 



Forewing basal one-fourth cream- white ; in this is an oblique chocolate 

 streak, below which is a looped zigzag line which just below streak forms a 

 white stigma ; an antemedian dark-chocolate transverse band, central one-third 

 of wing pale chocolate becoming paler distad ; outer one-third creamy grey, a 

 crenulate postdiscal brown line, a dark-chocolate spot before tornus, and a 

 quadrate dark-chocolate patch between vein 7 and half-way between veins 6 and 

 5. — ■ — Hindwing orange ; a postmedian transverse crenulate dark band be- 

 yond which is a similar lunate one. 



?. Antennae black ; head and tegulac orange ; thorax and last two 

 abdominal segments grej'-brown ; rest of abdomen deep orange. Forewing 

 chocolate rufous-brown, nervures yellow ; a round white spot belcw cell in basal 

 one-third of wing, a slightly curved median darker chocolate band, a pcstdiscal 

 row of eight intranervular wedge-shaped white patches, the one below costa 



very small. Hindwing ground-colour and median band similar ; postdiscal 



row of wedge-shaped patches golden yellow. 



Length of forewing : o 21 mm., ? 33 mm. Expanse : 3 47 mm., $ 74 mm. 



Habitat. Upper Setekwa River and near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, 

 Dutch New Guinea, 3,000-3,500 ft., August to December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 



4 <?o^ 2 ??. 



Cotana meeki sp. nov. 



(J. Antennae shaft black, pectinations basa-1 two-fifths orange, outer three- 

 fifths sooty black ; head, tegulae, and patagia brilliant orange ; rest of thorax 

 chocolate-rufous tinged with grey ; abdomen fiery orange. 



Forewing basal one-third cream-white, with an irregular somewhat hourglass- 

 shaped rufous-chocolate patch running into middle from costa with white dot 

 in centre, from this patch a somewhat indistinct irregular dark line runs to inner 

 margin ; median one-third chocolate bordered exteriorly by a lunulate whitish 

 band and with the nervures white ; a postmedian broad crenulate lavender- 

 grey band edged narrowly outwardly with chocolate ; outer one-fourth below 

 vein 5 creamy wiiitc, above vein 5 chocolate with a large greyish-white apical 



patch. -Hindwing basal two-thirds orange, outer one-third chocolate ; 



some indistinct darker shadow lines in basal portion and a lunulate cream band 

 in outer one-third ; marginal line cream, fringe chocolate. 



$. Antennae black ; head, thorax, and abdomen fiery reddish orange, anal 

 tuft lavender-blue. Forewing base reddish orange, costo-subcostal area for 

 basal two-thirds orange chestjiut-brown, rest of wing rufcnis marccn-chccDlate 



