COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 105 



these strigillation.s are alinnst obsolete, an angled series of dark spots from apex to 

 vein 2. Hindwing similar, but with dark marks above tornus and at and above vein 2 

 at margin. 



Expanse 52 mm. Length of forewing 24'5 mm. 

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



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577. Epiplema urapterygia sp. nov. 



$. Antennae whitish buff ; head, thorax and abdomen yellowish grey. Forewing 

 yellowish grey strigillated with chestnut brown ; antemedian and median oblique 

 transverse bands chocolate brown, a faint postdiscal line of brown smears. Hindwing 

 yellowish grey strigillated with chestnut brown ; a longitudinal band on disc, a post- 

 median strongly angulated band, a number of submarginal striae, outer margin and 

 tail spot chocolate brown. Fringe of both wungs white. 



Expanse 28 mm. Length of forewing 12-5 mm. 



1 ? Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



578. Gathynia nigrescens Warr. 



Gathynia nigrescens Warren, Nov. Zonl., vol. iii. p. 279 (1896) (Fergusson IsL). 



2 ?? Base Camp, March 1913 ; 2 <S<S 1 ? Canoe Camp, Nov. 1912 ; 4 cJ<J 2 ?? Utakwa 

 River, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



579. DiRADES DECORATA BRUNNEA subsp. nOV. 



(?. Differs from d. decorata by its uniform wood brown, not grey ground colour ; the 

 white patch in costal half of hindwings runs out to a rounded point, the apex not being 

 concavely truncate as in d. decorata. 



Expanse 18 mm. Length of forewing 7*5 mm. 



3 ,53 Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



580. Decetia dichromata Walk. 



Decetia dichromata Walker, List Lrp. Ins. Brit. Mus., xxxv. p. 1558 (I8()(5) (Chin Hills). 



1 3 Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



LASIOCAMPIDAE 



Only 1 species of this family is in the collection, and it is new. 



581. Taragama purpureocastanea sp. nov. 

 S. Antennae sooty grey ; tibiae of forelegs orange ochraceous ; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen chestnut maroon. Forewing chestnut maroon, an antemedian and median 

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