COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 83 



area separated from inner f by an orange rufous brown obliquely transverse band strongly 

 angled at vein 5. Hindwing similar, but has wing divided in half by the transverse 

 band ; in inner half is a transverse rufous brown line. $ differs in being uniform ash 

 grey on inner f of forewing irrorated with violet grey and outer | violet grey, the two 

 innermost short bars from costa of J are continued across to inner margin as yellow 

 lines and the transverse band is double, outside chestmit, inside yellow, a white sub- 

 apical smear ; on hindwing transverse inner line absent. 



Expanse, ,s 30, ? 28 mm. Length of forewing, o 13-5, ? 12-5 mm. 



1 o^ 3 ?? Carstensz Peak, 5000-10,000 ft., Feb.— March 1913. 



439. Hyposidra incomptaria (Walk.) 



LiKji/ra incomptfiriii Walker, List Lcji. lux. Brit. Mus.. xxxv. p. 1539 (1866) (Aru). 



4 jj 1 ? Base Camp, Nov. 1912-^Marcli 1913. 



440. Hyposidra rufo-ochracea sp. nov. 



o. Antennae pale brown ; head and thorax brownish cinnamon ; abdomen ochraceous 

 cinnamon, anal tuft buff. Forewing rufous ochraceous buff, irrorated with sooty brown- 

 grey, basal 4^ and basal * above obliquely to apex, median fold sooty grey, a grey-black 

 bar from costa to median fold at discocellulars fading into rufous from median fold 

 to inner margin. Hindwing cinnamon rufous irrorated and clouded with grey and 

 cinnamon. 



Expanse 48 mm. Length of forewing 21'5 mm. 



1 o Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



441. Hyposidra castaneorufa sp. nov. 



<S. Antennae brown with enormous pectinations, which in turn are densely hairy; head 

 and thorax sooty mauve or purplish brown ; abdomen chestnut cinnamon with chest- 

 nut red bands on basal and second segments. Forewing chocolate brown overlaid with 

 a leaden grey glaze and powdered with white scales here and there forming lines and 

 patches ; an oblique rufous chocolate antemedian band and a black cellular stigma, 

 a median rufous chestnut curved median line beginning below cell and a postmedian 

 rufous chocolate band; between cell and the postn;edian band is a large patch of bright 

 chocolate red and an anteapical wedge-like patch of same colour. Hindunng similar, 

 but with antemedian and median crenulate rufous chocolate lines and a rust-red irregular 

 cloudy postmedian broad band ; fringe of both wings rust red. 



Expanse 54 mm. Length of forewing 24-5 mm. 



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



