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postdiscal one ending in a tawny ochraceous spot, all white, shaded with olive. 



Hindwing : a cnrved liar in cell between two dark patches, a series of discal lunnles, 

 bordering a band of dark brown patches, the posterior Innnles larger, white shaded 

 with olive, external area bright tawny ochraceons including a series of five black, 

 postdiscal, jiatches proximally bordered I ly white or creamy white Innnles, the npper 

 two Innnles very thin, a white dot near abdiimiaal margin, lietwcen those and the 

 discal half-moons are deej) brown patches ; the iilack postdiscal jiatches have white 

 external borders, except the njipermost ; black marginal patches at end of veins 

 W — SIP, the middle two the largest. 



Length of forcwing : 29 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, British New Guinea, 1 t? (Weiske). 



LYCAENIDAE. 



3. Mimacraea dohertyi sp. nov. 



Wings aliorc orange, feebly reddish towards the base, especially on the f(ire- 

 wing ; external margins of lioth wings and abdominal one of hindwing narrowly 



liordercd with black ; fringe white lietween the veins. Forewing : costal margin 



black, tlie black border widened to cell, which it just enters ; fused with it are two 

 patches SC^ — W, followed or not by a spot R' — R-, and nearer apex of wing a short 

 band or patch composed of rows of blacl; scales, this jiatcli often indicated only by 



scattered scales, especially in ? ? ; veins brown. Hindwing : the dots of the 



underside shining through, often a black costal spot just beyond middle. 



Underside paler than npper, except basal two-thirds of forewing. Forewing: 



costal black area as above or a little wider, no snbajiical costal band ; veins blackish 



distally. Hindwing : veins brownish, bordered pale, thirteen black dots from 



base to beyond end of cell : three (J — SC-, equidistant, three iu cell, of which 

 the basal one stands upon the base of M, one R^ — R- touching cross-vein, two 

 SC-— R- the most distal, one behind the other, transverse, a row of three lietween 

 base of M' and SJI-, the last of them often vestigial or absent, and one M — SM- 

 behind the second cell-sjiot ; a fourteenth spot is sometimes marked behind SM-, all 

 the spots with obviously pale borders, except the npper three distal ones. 



Length of forewing : 22 to 27 mm. 



Iliib. Escarpment, British East Africa, Sejitember to November, during dry 

 weather, a series at an elevation of from 6uU0 to 9000 ft. (AV. Doherty). 



This is the first Mimacraea described from British East Africa. 



GEOMETRIDAE. 



4. Dysphania centralis sp. nov. 



r?. Head and scaling of antenna pale vinaceons cinnamon ; abdomen rufons 

 cinnamon, eighth tergite witli a bluish black sjiot, prothorax yellow, tegulao blue- 

 black. Wings dark purplish blue. Forewing with an oblong grey patch in apex 



of cell, the ordinary jiale markings of Dysphania barely traceable. Hindwing 



with a large cadmium yellow jiatch in middle incised upon the cross-veins, truncate 

 proximally, rounded distally between R^ and M', not extended to JI-, fringe mixed 

 with rufous. Underside paler than njiper, the pale Dysphania markings vestigial 

 on the forewing ; patch of hindwing rather larger than above. 



Length of forewing : 3.5 mm. 



llab. Aroa River, British New Guinea, 1 S (Weiske). 



