COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 59 



Forewing cinnamon purplish mauve, a few white subbasal dots, a sinuate antemedian 

 hne of white dots outside which is a sinuate black transverse line, a cellular band-like 

 sooty black stigma, a sooty median band outside which is a sinuate line of black-and- 

 white dots which coalesces with the band at vein 2 and to inner margin ; outer half 

 with several faint sooty bands. Hindwing cinnamon puipJish mauve, abdominal 

 and costal regions sooty brown-grey, a median slightly sinuate line of black-and-white 

 dots and a number of faint sooty lines and baiids. 

 Expanse 46 mm. Length of forewing 20 '5 mm. 



1 3 Canoe Camp, Nov. 1912. 



306. Paranympha klossi sp. nov. 



?. Antennae brown ; head and palpi yellowish grey-brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 brownish chestnut. Forewing brownish chestnut somewhat strigillated with dark 

 brown ; two antemedian sooty brown-grey somewhat shadowy bands, in the outer of 

 which is an orange median dot ; a broad postdiscal rufous chestnut band from costa 

 to vein 4, outside which is a shadowy sooty blackish grey band reaching to vein 3 ; 

 a chocolate spot on vein 1 near tornus. Hindwing, costal half dark brown-grey, lower 

 half brownish chestnut with darker strigillations. 



Expanse 52 mm. Length of forewing 23 mm. 



2 ?9 Base Camp, January 1913. 



307. Praxis caeruleotincta sp. nov. 



3. Antennae black ; head and thorax deep brown intermixed with black and blue 

 smooth glossy scales ; abdomen clothed with wood-brown and grey-blue scales. Fore- 

 wing greyish mauve blue with an antemedian spot and some postmedian splashes of 

 rufous, wing transversed by 7 or more sinuate sooty black lines of spots, a deeply 

 indented marginal black line and yellowish streaks in fringe. Hindwing similar. 



Expanse 42 mm. Length of forewing 18'5 mm. 



1 c? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



308. Praxis i^'Ebulosa sp. nov. 



3. Antennae strongly serrate black ; head and thorax velvety black-brown slightly 

 mixed with bluish white scales ; abdomen blackish brown-grey. Forewing velvety 

 black-brown, slightly tinged with lighter brown ; on basal half in costal area and below 

 median fold are patches of blue-grey scales, a cream yellow stigma, a median shadow 

 band darker, a postmedian curved line of half-moons, arid beyond it a dark shadow 

 band, termen and fringe with whitish marks ; outer half 'of wing with numerous and 

 close patches of blue-grey scales. Hindwing base, basal | of costal area, abdominal 

 margin yellowish wood-grey ; rest of wing velvety black-brown, a median dentate black 



