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GEOMETRIDAE. 

 12. Presos angelus sp. uov. 



c? ? . Upperside : forewing as in mariana White, which I have from Queensland 

 and British New Guinea, but the median white band mnch reduced, consisting of a 

 patch in the cell, a triangular spot between veins 'i and 3, and a small sjiot behind 

 vein 2, all much shaded at the edges with pale slate-colour; costal margin in front 

 of band and two minute spots just beyond apex of cell pale slate-colour; a series of 

 four small spots midway between cell and apex of wing, pale slaty, centred with 

 wliite; the indistinct pale line near hinder angle in mariana replaced here by two slaty 

 spots centred with white; a snbmarginal series of seven small slaty spots with white 

 centres ; an oblique indistinct slaty line at basal fourth as in mariana. 



Hindwing with a large white median area, extending from abdominal margin, 

 where it is 16 mm. wide, to a little beyond vein 7, at median nervure only 4 mm. 

 distant from base, its inner edge nearly straight, somewhat oblique : shaded with 

 slate-colour at the outer edge, especially in S, including at the end of the cell a 

 black spot which is joined to black outer area of the wing. The latter contains two 

 series of yellow spots : the inner series consists of four spots, there being no spots 

 between veins 7 and 8, 4 and 6 — the iirst spot is minute, the last linear ; the onter 

 series consists of six spots, of which the fourth is the largest, but is mnch smaller 

 than the respective spot in mariana ; near the last spot stands a minute dot. 



On the underside the markings of the forewing are more distinctly white : the 

 median band and the two slaty spots at the onter side of the discocellulars include 

 between themselves a black imtch ; on hindwing the yellow spots of the inner series 

 are in S partly joined to those of the outer series. 



Body as in mariana., also size, but first abdominal segment slate-colonr. 



Jlab. Eon I., Geelvink Bay, July 1897, 1 <?, 1 ? (W. Doherty). 



13. Callhistia grandis kaporaua subsp. uov. 



i. Differs from C. yramiis (/ranr/is in tlie band of the forewing being mnch 

 narrower, measuring at the costal margin only 3 mm. and at hinder margin 5 mm. 

 The inner edge of the band is almost straight, crossing the median vein just outside 

 the origin of vein 2 ; the outer edge is nearly straight from costal margin to inter- 

 nervnlar fold between veins 2 and 3, where the band is 9 mm. wide, and then turns 

 at a sliarp angle to the hinder margin of the wing ; the tip of the angle is 3A mm. 

 distant from the outer margin of the wing. The band of the hindwing is sliglitly 

 narrower than in i/randis, its outer edge being at vein 4 only li mm. distant from 

 the ajiex of the cell ; the first partition between veins 7 and 8 is sharply cut oft' by 

 vein 8 ; on underside the band extends beyond vein 8. 



Ilab. Kapaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, January 1897, 1 6 (W. Doherty), at 

 a low elevation. 



Note. — Milionia regina Druce, Ann. Macj. N. H. (7). I. p. 149 (1898), from 

 Woodlark I., is the same as Milionia ra/ca/ti'n.^i.f /roor/lar/dana, Itotlischild, Nov. Zool. 

 189C. p. 328, from Woodlark 1. Mr. Druce's specimens as well as mine were from 

 collections made by Mr. A. S. Meek on Woodlark. 



