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NEW SPECIES OF DBEPANULIDAE, UBANIIDAE, EPI- 

 PLEMIDAE, AND GEOMETIUDAE FROM THE PAPUAN 

 EEGION, 



COLLECTED l'.V .MR. ALl'.EliT S. MEEK. 

 By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DREPAXULIDAE. 

 1. Drepana fleximarg'o sp. uov. 



Forewings : ochreous, daiipled and suft'used with grey-hrown ; costal area pale, 

 the extreme costal edge dark brown, towards apex spotted with brown and paler 

 intervals ; first line at one-fourth, pale and indistinct, outwardly toothed on the veins, 

 followed by a deeper brown shade ; cell-spot round, black ; outer line pale ochreous, 

 slender, straight, from inner margin at three-fourths to shortly before apex, where 

 it is acutely angled, runs inwards parallel to veins for a short distance, and is again 

 angled before reaching costa ; veins within this line all pale ochreous ; marginal 

 area brownish, above anal angle with a patch of mixed ochreous, grey, and blackish 

 scales; fringe reddish brown. 



Hiitdivings : darker brown, except along costa, which is ochreous freckled with 

 brown and black ; outer line of forewings produced across middle of hindwings, 

 slightly wavy, preceded by dark grey and blackish shading, and with the veins all 

 pale ochreous within it; marginal space deep brown, mottled with black, with a 

 hyaline space beyond the cell formed of two contiguous ovals, nearly touching the 

 central line, and bearing minute black raised scales ; fringe dark brown. 



Face and palpi bright red-brown ; vertex and shaft of antennae white ; terminal 

 half of shaft fuscous, the pectinations rufous; thorax and abdomen brown, the latter 

 becoming ochreous on anal segments. Underside pale j-ellowish ochreous, with coarse 

 dark fuscous specks and reddish and fuscous suffusion towards hindmargin ; the outer 

 line of forewings thick and dark, and not so near margin as on upperside ; inner 

 margin of both wings and apex of hindwings whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One (J from Fergusson Island, October 1894. 



The costa of forewings is abruptly bent at two-thirds; the ajjex produced anfl 

 bluntly falcate; hindmargin with a blunt tooth between veins 2 and 'A, wilh a 

 shallow excision above and below it. llimhvings with the apex at vein 7 prominent 

 and rectangular; the hindmargin nearly straight. 



The species bears a su]ierfi(ial resemblance to D. spccularis Moore. 



2. Drepana sera sp. nov. 



Foreivings : dull yellow, (he markings obscure; a rufous spot on the upper 

 vertical arm of discocellular, and a white rufous-edged spot at the lower angle of cell ; 

 a rufous curved line near base, plainest on inner margin ; a rufous outer line from 

 centre of costa to middle of inner margin, strongly outcurved and thickened opposite 

 cell, then obliciue inwards; a submarginal curved line of lilackish sjiols between the 

 veins, that opposite the cell most distinct and swollen ; apical region sutfu.sed with 

 rufous; fringe rufous from apex to middle, then yellowish. 



