APPENDIX 



PTEROPHORDJA 



PTEROPHORIDAE 



Steganodactyla Wlsm. 

 Steganodactyla cretosa, sp. n. (Dint.) 



Antennae clialk-white. Palpi challv-wliite, tinged with fuscous externally. Head 

 whitish, tinged mth fuscous ; with fuscous bifid hair-scales on the crown. Thorax 

 chalk-white, tinged with fuscous posteriorly. Foreivings chalk-white, irrorated with 

 fuscous scales which coalesce along the costa from its middle to four-fifths, along the 

 termen, and in three bluntly dentate dorsal spots ; the spot at the end of the cell is 

 connected along the dorsum with another, immediately before the tornus, and is pre- 

 ceded by a third spot midway between it and the base, an elongate spot occurring 

 in the fold between them ; the fuscous irroration is almost absent along the dorsum, 

 the spaces between the fuscous spots ajipearing white ; ciha fuscous, white at their 

 base along the termen. Exp. al. 17 mm. Hindwings greyish fuscous ; ciha sHghtly 

 paler, with a whitish hne along their base. Abdomen white, second and fourth somites 

 greyish fuscous above ; anal tuft tipped with greyish fuscous — on the under side, 

 the somites are narrowly edged mth the same colour. Legs white, variegated with 

 fuscous ; hind tibiae above with fuscous spurs, with a fuscous spot before the first 

 pair of spurs, and another beyond at their base ; hind tarsi with the first and second 

 joints fuscous above, except towards the end of the joint, the last joint also fuscous. 



Ttjpe <S (350401, Mimika R.) B.M. 



^o&.— Ternate, 1892 {W . Doherty) ; Batjan, August 1897 {W . Dohertij) ; Burn, below 

 1000 ft., 1892 (W. Doherty) ; Dutch New Guinea : Ron Id. (GeelvinJv Bay), July 1897 

 {W. Doherty) ; Kapaur, 0^2000 ft., Dec. 1896— Feb. 1897 (IF. Doherty) ; Mimika 

 River, August 1910 {A. F. R. WoUaston). Seven specimens. 



On the under side the wings are greyish fuscous, the white being absent, except in 

 the ciha. 



This species cannot be mistaken for either eonfusa A\'lsm. or connexiva Wlsm. ; in 

 shape it resembles the latter. 



Platyptilia Hb. 

 Platyptilia enargota, sp. n. (Dnit.) 

 Antennae blackish, basal joint fulvous. Palpi, Head, and Thorax fulvous. Forewings 

 fuscous-black, becoming fulvous at the base ; ciha fuscous-black. Exp. al. 18 mm. 



