408 lithostadj:. 



beyond middle, some subterminal black points and minute spots 

 from above vein 5 to below 3, sometimes almost obsolete, and an 

 oblique series of three patebes from above vein 2 to tornus, the 

 uppermost sometimes conjoined to tbe postmedial series. Hind 

 Avinij scarlet ; a small discoidal black spot, postmedial spot on 

 costa near apex, and sinuous series of small spots between veins 3 

 and 1 ; an obliquely curved series of small spots from termen 

 below apex to vein 5 and three spots between vein 3 and tornus. tbe 

 middle spot lar^e : cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing scarlet 

 except apical and terminal areas ; hind wing pale scarlet. 



Hob. Ditch X. Guinea. Pak-fak {Pratt), 1 c , type f ? in 

 Coll. Joieey. Exp., 6 48, ? 56-60 millim. 



# 1790<7. Spilosorna holobruimea. 



Diacrisia holobru tinea. Joieey, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1915, p. 373, pi. 61. f. 4. 



9 . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; sides of frons and palpi 

 blackish ; abdomen dull brownish orange, tbe base, extremity, and 

 ventral surface red-brown, a maculate black dorsal stripe from 

 3rd to penultimate segment and lateral and sublateral sj>ots 

 except towards base. Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with some 

 ocbreous brown ; a rather darker curved discoidal striga and faint 

 curved postmedial line. Hind wing red-brown mixed with some 

 greyish ocbreous ; an oblique black discoidal lunule ; blackish 

 subterminal spots above and below veins 5 and 2 and above tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing with black discoidal lunule, tbe postmedial 

 line diffused dark red-brown, from costa to vein 3, slight subter- 

 minal black spots on and below costa ; bind wing with oblique 

 blackish bar from costa above end of cell and more complete 

 maculate subterminal band. 



H«J. Ditch X. Guinea. Arfak Mts.. Angi Lakes (Pratt), 

 type t 2 in Coll. Joieey. Exp. 62 millim. 



*1791 a. Spilosoma novaeguineae. (Plate LX. fig. 16.) 

 Ardkes novaeguineae, Eoths. Xov. Zool. s S> p. 278 (1913). 



d . Head and thorax fulvous yellow ; antennae, palpi, and sides 

 of frons blackish, pectus fuscous brown, scarlet in front ; legs 

 fuscous brown and fulvous yellow, the femora scarlet above ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown dorsally suffused with scarlet, ventrally 

 with fulvous yellow. Pore wing fulvous yellow with broad black 

 es leaving the veins, a fascia on medial part 

 of costa, a streak in end of cell, irregular fascia in submedian fold, 

 and a fas--ia on inner margin except towards tornus yellow: traces 

 of a black antemedial line, incurved below submedian fold; a 

 narrow fulvous yellow postmedial band, interrupted between veins 

 1 -i and incurved below v. in -i ; a narrow fulvous yellow 

 terminal band, interrupted between - 5 and 3, angled out- 



wards below vein 6 and inwards at submedial f old j cilia fulvous 



