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Mr. E. ]\Ieyrick’s Dearriptions of 
Imma lyrifera^ ii. sp. 
9 . 18-19 mm. Head orange-yellow. Palpi yellow, with a fiiscons 
anterior stripe on terminal joint and upper half of second. Thorax 
fuscous-purple, with four orange stripes on anterior half, and two 
posterior orange marks. Abdomen rather dark grey. Forewings 
elongate, moderately l)road, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, 
apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, hardly oblique ; 7 and 8 
stalked, 8 to apex ; fuscous-purple, suffused with blue towards 
costa; markings orange; short costal and median streaks from 
base ; an irregular rather outwards-curved streak from middle of 
costa to f of dorsum, dilated on costa, interrupted in middle and 
near dorsum ; a series of eight or nine interneural dashes between 
this and following streak, but mostly not reaching either ; a terminal 
streak, wide on costa and attenuated to tornus, anterior edge concave, 
enclosing a blacki.sh striga from costa : cilia whitish, in one specimen 
suffused with grey towards base, in the other with a blackish basal 
line, Hindwings hyaline, veins blackish-grey; a moderately broad 
rather dark grey band along costa ; a moderate blackish-grey termi¬ 
nal fascia, becoming abruptly very narrow near tornus ; cilia fuscous, 
outer half whitish, with blackish basal line. 
New Guinea, Kei Is., Woodlark I.; in December and 
March, two specimens. 
Imma peolploca, n. sp. 
9 . 21mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous yellow. Abdomen 
dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather broad, posteriorly dilated, 
costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen nearly 
straight, hardly oblique; 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to termen ; dark fuscous- 
purple ; an ochreous-yellow streak running round base, costa, and 
termen, forming a narrow basal patch which extends on costa and 
dorsum so that edge is concave, very slender through middle of 
costa, at apex forming a triangular patch, and again very finely 
attenuated towards tornus: cilia yellow, beneath tornus fuscous. 
Hindwings and cilia blackish-grey. 
New Guinea, Jobi I., in May; one .specimen. 
Imma nuhigena, n. sp. 
1 ^. 27-29 mm. Head white or whitish, .scales of crown and 
collar long, dense, erectible, partially suffused with fuscous. Palpi 
ochreous-whitish or whitish-ochreovrs, second joint rather excurved, 
with expansible scales towards apex above, with fuscous lateral 
stripe or sometimes wholly fuscous externally, terminal joint 
