COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 151 



with scales ; hind tibiae somewhat roughly scaled, hairy above, the basal joint of 

 the hind tarsi also roughly clothed above. 



Apparently a development of Crocanthes Meyr., as represented by such species as 

 thrasijdora Meyr., and carcharias Meyr. — Ptilosticha Meyr. is an allied genus, but differs 

 in neuration. 



Diascepsis benisteiniella Snln. 

 Dasycem? bernsteinidla Snln., Tijd. Ent. 21 14.5-7, Pf. S'T-IO (1878), from Salwatti, Ron, and Dutch 

 New Guinea, must be referred to Diascepsis. 



Diascepsis fascinata, sp. n. (Drnt.) 



Antennae black, clothed with long, rough, purplish black scales. Palpi orange- 

 ochreous, blackish along their upper edge. Head and Thorax black, with gi-eenish 

 iridescence ; face whitish, with bluish iridescence. Forewings blackish, with purplish 

 gloss, a broad orange- ochreous fascia in the middle third, running slightly obhquely 

 outward from costa to dorsum ; the orange fascia leaves the dorsum with almost straight, 

 but slightly expanding, margins, until it attains the radius, where it is rounded-off, 

 somewhat obliquely on its outer margin, by the blackish ground-colour, and does 

 not attain the costa ; a blackish spot is somewhat conspicuous on the cell, near the 

 inner margin of the orange fascia ; ciUa purplish blackish ; underside as above. Exp. 

 al. 21-3 mm. Hindwings blackish, with an orange- ochreous fascia occupying the median 

 third, running obliquely inward from costa to dorsum, almost parallel with the termen ; 

 cilia concolorous with the adjacent parts of the wing ; underside as above. Abdomen 

 orange- ochreous, the terminal two segments, and half the preceding, blackish. Legs 

 orange-ochreous, banded and shaded with purplish blackish. 



Type S (350361) ; 9 (350362) B.M. 



^ff6.— Utakwa Kiver, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912 ; Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



1 S, 4 ??. 



In Diascepsis benisteiniella Snln. the direction of the orange fasciae is continuous, 

 being obliquely inward from costa to dorsum in both wings, but in fascinata the fascia 

 on the forewings runs obliquely outward. 



Crocanthes Meyr. 

 Crocanthes thrasydora Meyr. 

 Crocanthes thrasydora Meyr., Tr. Ent. Sor. Lnnd., 1910, 444 (1910). 



Hab.—Base Camp, Nov. 1912 ; Utakwa River, 2000-3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



2 oV. 



Crocanthes niiltina, sp. n. (Drnt.) 

 Antennae shoi-tly fasciculate-ciliate, blackish. Palpi smooth, ochreous, the terminal 

 joint suffused with blackish. Head and Thorax blackish, face ochreous. Forewings 



