COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 119 



653. Ambia obliquistpjga ,sp. nov. 



cj. Antennae rufous ; head, thorax and abdomen greyish white. Forewing white, 

 clouded with more or less obsolete brownish smears ; 2 dots on basal ^ of costa, 1 in 

 cell, a spot at apex of cell, and a streak on outer J of vein 1 dark brown ; an oblique 

 dark brown transverse line crosses wing in postdiscal area. Hindwing white, clouded 

 with brownish scales ; 3 dots in basal -3 of wing, a line running in from costa, and a 

 marginal row of dots dark brown. 



Expanse 12 mm. Length of forewing .5 mm. 



1 3 Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



654. Ambia marginalis sp. nov. 



(?. Antennae yellowish; head, thorax and abdomen white. Forewing white, a dot 

 in cell and submarginal band huffish grey. Hindwing white ; a spot in abdominal 

 area, 2 discal spots, and a submarginal band huffish grey. 



Expanse 13 mm. Length of forewing 5'5 mm. 



12 J,^ 3 ?? Base Camp, Nov. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



655. Ambia klossi sp. nov. 



cJ. Antennae huffish orange ; head and thorax orange variegated with buft' ; abdo- 

 men orange banded with buft". Forewing orange with indistinct buft markings in 

 basal ^ ; 2 median somewhat broken white transverse bands and a sooty median patch 

 on and below costa ; two postmedian white bands with some dark brown dots along 

 them, fringe chequered orange and sooty brown. Hindiving orange, base and 3 waved 

 transverse bands white ; some dark brown marks on two outer lines and fringe. 



Expanse 16 mm. Length of forewing 7 mm. 



1 a Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 1 o' Utakwa Kiver, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



656. Eristena trigonalis Hmpsn. 



Eristena Irigonalis Hampson, Ann. Mag. N.H. (7) xviii. p. 390 (1906) (Kapaur). 



2 c?J 7 ?? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



657. Nymphula foedalis (Guen.) 



Isopteryx foedalis Guenee, Dell, et Pijral., p. 228, pi. 4, f. 7 (1851) (Central India). 



7 (Jc? 5 ?? Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



658. Nymphula spilomelalis (Walk.) 



Isopteryx spilomelalis Walk., List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus.. xvii. p. 403 (1859) (Ceylon). 

 This insect has been wrongly identified by Hampson and Swinhoe with foedalis 

 Guen. ; it is a perfectly good and distinct .species. 



