142 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



801. PSARA NIGRIDIOR sp. nOV. 



cJ. Much blacker and larger than fhaeopteralis and forewing more produced. Uniform 

 purplish sooty black-grey, a black cellular stigma, and a subbasal, median and post- 

 median band ; tuft of abdomen orange. 



Expanse 30 mm. Length of forewing 13*5 mm. 



1 cj 1 ? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



802. PsARA PLATYCAPUA (Meyr.) 



Pymusla plalijcapua Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 90 (Sangir). 



1 (J 1 $ Base Camp, March 1913 ; 2 S6 Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 2 ^^ Utakwa River, 

 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



803. PsARA DESMioiDES (Hmpsn.) 

 Pachyzanda desmioides Hampson, P.Z.S., 1899, p. 203 (Fergusson LsL). 

 3 cJ(? 2 ?? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



804. Prooedema inscisalis (Walk.) 



Botys inscisalis Walker, List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mas., xxxiv. p. 1410 (1865) (Darjeeliug). 



1 3 Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. 



805. DiASEMIA WOLLASTONI Sp. nOV. 



?. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen sooty grey-black slightly freckled and 

 variegated with white. Forewing sooty grey-black, an oblique subbasal transverse line 

 white, a spot in cell and a larger one below it white ; beyond the cell is a curved band 

 of white spots above veins 2 to 7, and just beyond this is a serpentine white transverse 

 line, fringe chequered with white. Himlwing sooty grey-black ; a large white median 

 band from vein 6 to tornus and just beyond a serpentine white line, fringe chequered 

 with white. 



Expanse 26 mm. Length of forewing 11*5 mm. 



2 ?? Snow Mts., 4000-6000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



806. DiASEMIA WOLLASTONI MINOR subsp. nOV. 



6 ?. Differs from w. wollastoni in being smaller and paler. 



Expanse 22 mm. Length of forewing 9 mm. 



1 cJ 1 ? Carstensz Peak, 5000-6000 ft., Feb.— March 1913. 



807. DiASEMIA RAMBURIALIS (Dup.) 

 Hydrocampa ramburialis Duponchel, Lep. Fr., viii. p. 313, pi. 233, f. 6 (1831) (Corsica). 



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



