COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 133 



739. Nacoleia aurantiimaculalts sp. nov. 



cJ$. Deep yellow; basal f of forewing and body patched and mottled with blackish 

 brown, a cellular stigma black-brown with yellow centre ; outer f of forewing with 

 2 irregular black-brown coalescing transverse bands ; margin yellow divided by a dark 

 brown spot ; hindwing dark yellow patched and mottled with black-brown. 



Expanse 16 mm. Length of forewing 7 mm. 



8 63 13 ?? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Feb. 1913. 



740. Nacoleia affinis sp. nov. 



(J?. Dark wood brown variegated with dull yellow spots, patches and streaks ; hind- 

 wing, basal f yellow with two irregular dark brown bands, outer | dark brown with yellow 

 line and marginal edge ; fringe of both wings chequered yellow and brown. 



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



7 5 J 14 ?? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Feb. 1913. 



741. Nacoleia distinctifascia sp. nov. 



(?. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen cinnamon hazel. Forewing cinnamon hazel 

 washed with dull brown, an oblique antemedian transverse line, a median and a crenu- 

 lated postmedian dull brown ; the median line below costal vein forms the disco- 

 cellular ringed stigma ; beyond postmedian line the forewing is almost entirely suffused 

 with dull brown, the pale ground colour only appearing as a row of marginal dots. 

 Hindiving cinnamon hazel with very distinct antemedian and median-transverse bands, 

 the latter strongly crenulated ; the outer half of wing as in outer ^ of forewing. 



Expanse 18 mm. Length of forewing 8 mm. 



1 cJ Base Camp, March 1913. 



742. Nacoleia assimilis sp. nov. 



<S. Differs from distinctifascia in the absence of the antemedian and median lines of 

 forewing, which are replaced by irregular brown cloud-like patches, and in the post- 

 median line being much more strongly sinuate with an outside border of dirty buff. 

 Hindwing differs in being wood grey, darker on outer \, and only showing indistinct 

 traces of discal bands. Body dark brown. $ similar. 



Expanse 16 mm. Length of forewing 7 mm. 



3 (Jc? 1 ? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



743. Nacoleia fuscalis sp. nov. 



(?9. Sooty brown. Forewing with darker stigma, basal ^ with some irregular pale 

 buff markings, an oblique pale buff' transverse postmedian line from costa to tornus 



