COLLECTED IN DUT(^H NEW C4UINEA 143 



808. NooRDA NiGRiPUNCTALis Hmpsn. 



Noonla nifjripunctalis Hampson, P.Z.S.. 1899, p. 222 (Perak). 



1 o Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



809. NooRDA AFFiNis sp. nov. 



$. Nearest to ignealis Hmpsn. Head, palpi, and thorax scarlet slightly mixed with 

 yellow ; antennae pale brown ; abdomen buff with dorsal row of scarlet patches. 

 Forewing yellow variegated all over with irregular scarlet spots and patches, 3 or 4 

 patches on costal area, a patch at end of cell and one below it purple mauve ; a post- 

 median line from costa to vein 3, where it curves round and joins patch at end of cell, 

 also purple mauve ; margin and fringe dark mauve, between margin and postmedian 

 line are four dark crimson bands. Hindwing buff", outer margin widely dark mauve. 



Expanse 22 mm. Length of forewing 9"5 mm. 



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



810. NoORDA MAGNIFICALIS Sp. nOV. 



(J. Antennae brown ; palpi deep chocolate ; head and thorax canary yellow ; abdomen, 

 basal 2 segments canary yellow, remaining segments wood-brown with narrow white 

 rings, anal tuft buff'. Forewing canary yellow ; costal area broadly steel purple, ter- 

 minal margin broadly steel purple, much wider from well above vein 2 to inner margin, 

 a steel purple median blotch from below cell to inner margin, fringe brownish buff. 

 Hindwing buff, basal § of lower half canary yellow with 2 wide streaks and a narrow 

 terminal edge steel purple, fringe buff'. 



? dift'ers in the abdomen above except 2 basal segments being dark chocolate, in 

 the terminal margin below vein 2 not being expanded, and in costal dark area being 

 much narrower ; the dark costal and terminal areas are paler opalescent magenta, 

 NOT steel purple, and are edged, the former exteriorly, the latter outwardly narrowly 

 and inwardly more widely with black ; the median spot is smaller and dull mauve. 

 On the hindwing it dift'ers in having a broad pale rufescent opalescent magenta margin 

 edged inwardly with black. 



Expanse, <J 23, ? 28 mm. Length of forewing, o^ 10, ? 12 mm. 



9 S3 Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 1913. (As the whole 9 33 are 

 badly rubbed I have been obliged to make the description from a 3 and a $ collected 

 by Mr. A. S. Meek : o^ Mt. Goliath, March 1911 ; ¥ near Oetakwa River, Dec. 1910.) 



There k a 3 also badly rubbed from Base Camp, March 1913, which appears to be 

 a distinct species, but it is quite indescribable. 



811. Calamachrous albipunctalis Kenr. 



Calamachrous albipunctalis Kenrick, P.Z.S.. p. 86, pi. 4, fij;-. 20.5 (1907) (New Guinea). 



1 3 Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. 



