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98. Dasychiroides obsoleta spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 43). 



<J. Head and tliorax greyish white, jialpi black, grey tipped ; antennae with 

 red-brown branches, set in two porreet jieucils of whitish hairs ; abdomen dark 

 brown all over ; legs grey, black spotted. 



Primary whitish, somewhat shiny, with a trace of a basal black dentate 

 line, with donble antemedial and double medial interrupted dentate lines, a post- 

 medial serrate line and an autemarginal line, the latter appearing almost as a 

 row of dots. Posterior margin distinctly dotted with black between the veins. 

 Secondary blackish grey with similar coloured fringes. 



Underside : primaries dirty grey, whitish below the cell and the centre portion 

 of costa, secondaries dark grey with a trace of a lunule in the cell. 



Expanse, 44 to 50 mm. 



Hab. Owen Stanley Range, t>/pe ; Aroa River ; etc. Flies in May to June 

 near the coast, and in August in the hills, and is not uncommon. 



The type is in my collection from Dinawa. 



99. Dasychiroides nigrostrigata spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 28). 



(J. Very similar to the previous species, but with the markings obsolescent ; 

 at the end of the cell in the primary there is an oblique broad black transverse 

 stripe from the middle of the costa to near the inner angle. 



Expanse, 47 mm. 



Ilab. Dinawa, and generally distributed. This species is a close ally to 

 obsoh'ta. 



The type is in my collection. A small series was taken from each locality. 



100. Dasychiroides pratti spec. nov. (PL VI. f. 7). 



£?. Head and thorax greyish white, palpi black latorully with white edges; 

 antennae short, with red-brown branches ; abdomen brown with whitish anal 

 tuft ; legs white, grey scaled, tibiae and tarsi of hind pair brown. 



Primary white with all the central area suffused with dark brown, leaving 

 only a small basal and the terminal area white, which latter is excavated towards 

 the cell ; the brown scaling extends to the apex, and there is a costal grey patch 

 beyond the cell, an antemedial double blackish irregular line edging the brown 

 area, a postmedial serrate blackish line edging exteriorly the brown scaling, 

 beyond which is a second similar line Termen with a dark dash in each of 

 the vein interspaces. Fringes white, darkly intersected. Secondary uniformly 

 dark brown, with paler fringes having a dark dividing line. 



?. Primary dark brown, with a pale grey terminal area produced inwards 

 towards the medial area ; the base is slightly mixed with grey; all the markings 

 are as in the male, but greatly exaggerated, and the double subterminal line is 

 strongly accentuated and is produced on each of the veins into a spear-shaped 

 mark. 



Expanse, S 50, ? 75 mm. 



Hub. Dinawa, July and August ; Ekeikei, January and February ; Aroa 

 River (Tring Museum). 



The tyjie is in my collection. A series has been taken. 



