PAPERS READ. 



ON SOME LEPIDOPTERA FROM THE FLY RIVER. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. 



The following species were taken on the Fly River, New 

 Guinea, by the New Guinea Expedition, and with the addition of 

 several species of Noctuina, and a few unrecognisable specimens, 

 constituted almost the whcle collection of Heterocera taken. As 

 such, it is very deficient in numbers, and not particularly 

 remarkable for interest, including only 25 species, of which 15 

 appear to be new. Nearly all of these may be said to be of 

 normal Indo-Malayan types. The specimens, which from their 

 bad condition, were unidentifiable or unfit for description, included 

 three species of Bombycina, one of Boarmiadce, and three of 

 Botydidce ; also one possibly referable to the Depressariadce. 



BOMBYCINA. 



NYCTEMERID M. 



Nyctemera, Hb. 



1. Nyct. artemis, Boisd. 



(Lejrfosoma artemis, Boisd., Voy. Astr. V., 199.) 



One specimen. 



Ctimene, Boisd. 



Antenna? in £ strongly bipectinated, towards apex simple, 

 moniliform. Palpi short, curved, ascending, filiform. Forewings 

 with transverse vein obsolete between 4 and 6, 6 remote from 9, 

 7 and 8 out of 9, 11 anastomosing with 12 at a point. Hind- 

 wings with vein 5 absent, 6 and 7 tolerably remote at base. 



