Lepidoptera from Neiv Guinea. 461 



fold containing pencil of hairs ; vein 8 absent, 6 parallel to 4, 

 6 and 7 short-stalked, 8 from beyond middle. 



13. Licnoptera crocodora, n. s. 



^ , 19 mm. Head bright yellow. Palpi fuscous, beneath pale 

 yellowish. Antennae fuscous. Thorax purple, collar and a dorsal 

 spot behind it yellow. (Abdomen broken.) Legs whitish-ochreous, 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi white ringed with fuscous. Fore wings 

 elongate, moderate, slightly dilated, costa almost straight, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded ; bright clear yellow ; 

 markings bronzy-ochreous-brown, purple-shining, margined with 

 deeper purple-blue and black scales ; a rather narrow basal fascia, 

 rather wider on inner margin; a moderate slightly inwards-curved 

 fascia from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, 

 and a narrower fascia, attenuated above, along hind margin, 

 coalescing on lower half so as to form a blotch ; a slender white 

 hind-marginal line, forming a small spot at apex ; cilia rather dark 

 ochreous-fuscous. Hind wings very broad; pale whitish-ochreous, 

 paler towards costa, towards hind margin tinged with pale reddish- 

 brown, hairs of inner margin yellow-ochreous ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. 



One specimen (Sayer). 



Chlorogenia, n. g. 



Tongiie developed. Palpi moderate, porrected, rough-scaled 

 beneath. Antennae in ^ filiform, shortly ciliated, with scattered 

 longer cilia. Fore wings with vein 2 from near three-fourths, 

 5 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 11 bent towards 12. Hind wings with 

 veins 4 and 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 from middle. 



14. Chlorogenia cholerota, n. s. 



(J 2 , 15 — 17 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, and legs pale 

 whitish-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, anal tuft of 2 

 ochreous-brownish. Fore wings moderately elongate, dilated, 

 costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin rounded, some- 

 what oblique ; whitish-ochreous ; five irregular rather light brown 

 transverse lines ; first near base, angulated ; second broken into 

 three or four spots ; third from before middle of costa to middle of 

 inner margin, slightly curved outwards, indented above inner 

 margin ; fourth from two-thirds of costa to anal angle, rather 

 abruptly sinuate outwards in middle and indented beneath it ; 

 fifth parallel to fourth but more irregular, tending to be subdentate 



