134 Mr. T. B. iMetclier on the genus Benterooo^jus. 
New Guinea— Little Kei Isd., April 11, 1897 [Meyrick 
Coll., one*]; Feb. 2 and Feb. 14, 1900 {H. Kiihn) 
[Brit. Mus, Coll., two]. 
Deuterocopus ritsemae, Wlsra. 
(Plate XLIV, figs. 11, 12.) 
Deuterocopus ritsemae, Wlsm., Notes Leyden Mus., vi, 243 
(1884); Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., vi, 21 (1909). 
Deuteroscopus ruhrodactylus, Pag., Abb. Ges. Zool., xxix, 241. 
't. Deuterocopus ruhrodactylus, Meyr., T.E.S., 1907, 473. 
Deuterocopus ruhrodactylus, Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., vi, t. B, 
f. C {nee l.c., p. 20). 
Lord Walsingbam’s original description is as follows :— 
“ Head ferruginous, palpi ferruginous, annulated and tipped with 
white. Antennae dull ferruginous, delicately spotted along their upper 
side with white. Thorax ferruginous with two ill-defined yellowish- 
white spots anteriorly. Forewings bright shining ferruginous, with 
two white spots before the fissure, one on the dorsal margin nearer 
to the base than to the fissure, another on the middle of the wdng 
nearer to the fissure than to the base, a brownish spot at tlie base of 
the fissure preceded by a few brownish scales : the costal lobe 
clouded about its middle, but not at its base, with bronzy-brown and 
having two blackish streaks on the costal margin and another at the 
extreme apex. The central bronzy-brown shade is preceded and 
followed by a silvery-white spot. The divided lobe is also some¬ 
what clouded with bronzy-brown but not at its base, a silvery-white 
spot precedes the dark colouring and a second smaller one is about 
the middle of the upper division, a dark streak in the fringes at the 
apex of each division. In the pale yellowish fringes on the dorsal 
margin is a tuft of bronzy scales below the first fissure and another 
larger bronzy cloud below the second fissure. Hindwings dark- 
ferruginous with purplish tinge in the fringes especially towards the 
apex of the lobes; there is a small tuft of darker scales on the dorsal 
margin before the middle of the posterior lobe, a spatule of bronzy- 
brown scales at its apex. Abdomen bright ferruginous, with a raised 
band of shining silvery scales above the middle, a conspicuous 
yellowish-white spot preceding the anal segments. The posterior 
legs are bright-ferruginous, banded with white on the tibiae and first 
* Mr. Meyrick does not agree that this specimen is conspecific 
with his type of planeta, but I have been unable to detect any 
difference of specific importance. 
