498 Mr. E. Meyrick o}i some 



Port Moresby (Kowald) ; one specimen. This species 

 might be superficially mistaken for a Celerena. 



BOARMIA, Tr. 

 115. Boarmia callicrossa, n. s. 



3' , 38 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae whitish. Thorax whitish, 

 irregularly mixed with ochreous and dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish, posteriorly ochreous-tinged, irregularly irrorated with 

 black, esi^ecially on basal third. Legs pale whitish-ochreous, 

 anterior jmir with median bar of tibise and base of tarsal joints 

 dark fuscous. Fore wings with costa posteriorly moderately 

 arched, hind margin waved, rounded, rather strongly oblique ; 

 10 and 11 free ; whitish ; costa fuscous-tinged, and marked with 

 very fine blackish strigulae ; base pale fuscous ; first line slender, 

 black, irregular, from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner 

 margin, somewhat curved, preceded by a moderate pale ferruginous 

 anteriorly fuscous-edged band ; median space closely irrorated with 

 blackish and some ochreous scales, except on a clear whitish patch 

 preceding second line above middle ; discal spot obscurely indicated, 

 connected with costa by a cloudy darker mark ; second line 

 slender, black, u-regularly waved, fi-om two-thirds of costa to tln-ee- 

 fifths of inner margin, gently curved, somewhat bent above middle, 

 closely followed by a pale ferruginous band ; subterminal whitish, 

 regularlj' dentate, anteriorly margined by a thick cloudy blackish- 

 grey sufliision, mixed with blue-whitish on its anterior edge, and 

 posteriorly by a narrower blackish suffusion becoming obsolete 

 towards costa ; a hind-marginal series of blackish dots ; cilia pale 

 brownish, obscurely barred with whitish, terminal half whitish. 

 Hind wings with hind margin rounded, crenulate ; whitish ; basal 

 third closely irrorated with blackish, median space almost clear ; 

 second line, all posterior markings, and ciUa as in fore wings. 



5 , 42 mm. Entire insect irregularly suffused with light fuscous 

 and irrorated with dark fuscous, all pale areas obscured ; first and 

 second lines thicker ; pale ferruginous bands much obscured with 

 fuscous irroration ; dark margins of subterminal line lighter and 

 much less marked ; a distinct irregular discal spot indicated in 

 both wings with whitish scales, surrounded by an ill-defined 

 blackish-grey suffusion. 



Port Moresby {Koivald, Sayer) ; two specimens. I 

 have no doubt that these are truly sexes of the same 

 species, though dissimilar at first sight. 



