Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. 73 
margin ; a dark oblique discal line showing through from 
below, and joined to it at inner margin an outwardly curved 
line, which joins it again at middle of cell; an irregular 
post-discal line, anteriorly obsolete, defined from vein 5 and 
crenulate to inner margin; this line borders two rounded 
black spots in 2 and 3, and the trace of a larger spot below 
them, which is not filled in with black. 
Underside yellow-ochreous, sparsely speckled with black. 
Fore wing paler in basal and median area, here without 
black dots. Markings as above, but here defined; a dark 
discal line, slightly curved. Hind wing with markings as 
above, and a thin curved post-discal line which borders inner 
edge of black spots ; a black diseocellular dot. 
Antenne black, shaft ochreous ; head and palpi ochreous- 
grey ; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous, latter with a 
brownish dorsal stripe; legs pale ochreous marked with 
brownish. 
Length of fore wing 22 mm. 
Hab. Angi Lakes, Arfak Mtns., 6000 feet, Jan.—Feb. 
One specimen. 
Hygrochroa purpurascens, sp. n. 
(Pl. IV. fig. 3.) 
3. Upperside purplish brown irrorated with yellow- 
brown. ore wing with a pale yellow-brown discal patch 
invaded by ground-colour, occupying outer two-thirds of 
cell and adjacent eostal area, and proximally of discal line 
reaching below cell to submedian, its upper part divided by 
a narrow brown discal line which is slightly curved ; an 
indistinct black post-discal line outwardly curved from costa 
to vein 4 and then proximally oblique ; a small rounded 
yellow-white subapical spot and a larger and more oblong 
spot of similar colour below vein 2. Hind wing with a dark 
brown slightly curved basal line ; basal area irrorated with 
yellow-brown ; a post-discal row of 5 or 6 yellow-white 
spots ; proximally of these a row of black dots, one on each 
vein. 
Underside paler than the upper, strongly dusted with 
blackish and much irrorated with yellow-white ; markings 
less distinct than above. 
Head, antennz, and palpi yellow-brown; thorax rufous- 
brown ; legs, abdomen, and underside of thorax pale 
purplish brown. 
Length of fore wing 18 mm. 
Hab, Arfak Mtus., Angi Lakes, 6000 feet, March. 1 @. 
