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115. Deilemera pratti spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 38). 



c??. Head whitish, with a black spot; collar black, fringed and divided in 

 the middle with pale yellowish ; patagiae black, fringed with wliite ; thorax 

 black, with a white stripe on each side meeting in the centre ; abdomen j'ale 

 smok}' brown, with fine pale segmental divisions. 



Primary smoky brown, with the basal half of the veins showing pale ; a fine 

 white line in the fold below the cell and another in the cell ; a posterior oblicjue 

 broad smoky white patch from the costa to close to the tornns, the veins all being 

 outlined in brown. Secondary subhyaline white, with a broad smoky brown termen 

 increasing towards each angle. 



Antennae of tnale deeply, oi female narrowly, pectinated. 



Expanse: c? 41, ? 47 mm. 



Hub. Owen Stanley Range, September, and Marcli and April. 



The type is in my collection, a series being sent home from various places. 



Family ARCTIIDAE. 



Subfamily AROTIINAE. 



110. Maenas punctatostrigata spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 1.5). 



S. Head and thorax creamy white, palpi and antennae black; abdomen 

 yellow spotted with black on the dorsum of the hinder segments ; legs creamy, 

 with black tarsi and tibiae black below; thorax with a single black spot on 

 each patagia. 



Primary yellowish cream-colour, with three black costal spots at base above 

 the middle and beyond the end of the cell ; a single transverse oblique black 

 spotted stripe from near the apex to near the middle of the inner margin ; by 

 the inner margin a black spot on each side of it divided by vein 1, and two or 

 three black spots divided by veins 4 and o be3'ond the strijje ; termen with three 

 black sjiots below the apex. Secondary sjjotless creamy white. 



Expanse, 37 — 40 mm. 



llab. Mount Kebea, Dinawa, Aroa River (Tring Museum), August, and 

 March and April. 



Type from Mount Kebea in my collection. 



117. Diacrisia pratti spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 23). 



<?. Head and thorax pale pinkish brown, commonly called "buff"; thorax 

 with a broad dark central velvety stripe ; frons and palpi jet black, pectus and 

 antennae black ; abdomen crimson red above with a central dorsal row of black 

 spots ; below the abdomen is black, slightly yellowish at the segmental divisions, 

 with a marked black ellipse, beyond which the extremity is pale buff; legs sooty 

 black. 



Primary pale pinkish brown, with a few black spots ; a small one at the 

 base of vein Vi, an antemecUal row of five very small ones, the fifth on vein 1 

 being the largest ; a small one two-thirds along the costa, below which is another 

 at the lower angle of the cell broken up into three by the veins, below this 

 shifted inwards a large one divided by vein 1, the least trace of a submargiual 

 row of points divided by the veins terminating in a small spot at the inner angle. 



