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424. Plectoneura albida Warr. 



Plectoneura albida Warren, Nov. ZooL. iii, p. 390 (1896) (New Guinea). 

 1^1? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



425. BORBACHA RUBIDARIA 8p. IIOV. 



?. Antennae white, pectinations brown : head yellow variegated with scarlet, frons 

 and palpi brown with faint yellow lines; thorax and abdomen yellow strongly variegated 

 with mauve crimson, patagia with apical half entirely mauve crimson. Wings golden 

 yellow ; basal f with niunerous transverse deeply crenulated bands of scarlet and in 

 forewing more densely and hindwing more sparsely patched with leaden grey-brown ; 

 outer f leaden grey-brown, a postdiscal line of 3 or 4 spots and some terminal lines 

 and patches scarlet and yellow. 



Expanse 48 mm. Length of forewing 22 mm. 



1 ? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



426. BORBACHA PARDARIA FUSCESCENTIOR subsp. nOV. 



cJ. Differs from p. pardaria Guen. in the ground colour being rusty buff, not ochre 

 yellow, and in the main bands and spots being brownish lead grey, not greyish violet. 

 1 <s Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



427. Synezia eumeleata (Walk.) 



Anisodes emneleata Walker, List Lcp. Ins. Brit. 3Ius., xxii. p. 649 (1861) (Sarawak). 

 1 cj Base Camp, Dec. 1912. 



428. Syntaracta clathrata Warr. 

 Syntaracta clathrata Warren, Nov. ZooL, xiii. p. 135 (1906) (New Guinea). 

 1 3 Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



429. BuLONGA SUBCINEREA (Warr.) 



Antibadistes subcinerea Warren, Nov. ZooL, iii. p. 142 (1896) (Amboina, Java). 



1 ? Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 2 3S Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



430. SCARDAMIA KLOSSI sp. nov. 

 (?. Antennae dark brown ; head and thorax orange scarlet ; abdomen yellowish wood- 

 brown suffused with mauve, basal segment with transverse orange scarlet band in which 

 is a black and silver spot. Wings orange scarlet, strigillated irregularly with dirty 

 mauve ; forewing, costa brownish mauve, an oblique metallic silver antemedian band 

 bordered inwardly with brownish mauve, a mauve bar on discocellulars joinhig costa, 

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