86 Messip. J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot on new 



Eupterotidse. 

 36. Eupterote punctata, sp. n. 



Allied to sfyx, B.-Baker, from British New Guinea. 



(^ . Upperside with tawn-browii ground-colour. Fo7-e 

 wing much irrorated with black. A black basal line ; a 

 black median band followed by four black discal lines wliicli 

 are waved and become thinner posteriorly 5 basal line straiglit 

 and outwardly oblique, other lines inwardly oblique and 

 anteriorly curved inwards to costa; a waved, well-defined, 

 pale outer discal line, followed by a strongly dentate black 

 subterminal line, the space between being much irrorated 

 with black scaling. At end of cell a round ochreous spot. 

 Hind wing with two dark basal lines, two slightly waved 

 discal lines, the outer the broader, followed by a black dentate 

 subterminal line, the space between being thinly irrorated 

 with black scaling. 



Underside paler than above. On fore wing the outer discal 

 line is most strongly indicated. The hind wing is darker 

 and five waved lines are clearly marked, followed by the 

 straighter and darker outer line. 



Head and thorax deep velvety brown. At base of antennae 

 on each side of frons is an ochreous tuft. Antennas, legs, 

 thorax below, and abdomen fawn-brown. 



Length of fore wing 48 mm. 



6 J c?, Wandammen Mins., 3000-4000 feet, Nov. 



Geometridae. 



37. Milionia locmdammenensce, sp. n. 

 (Fl. VIII. tig. 7.) 



Allied to aroensis, Roths. 



(J $ . Upperside with only a faint bluish gloss over the 

 wings, Fore wing with a wider red band than in aroensii^, 

 being widened proximally ; basal blue reduced, deep in 

 colour., and faintly metallic. Hind iving with blue reduced to 

 area of cell and below it, a metallic streak along lower edge 

 of cell and along submedian. 



Underside of fore wing with reduced metallic blue at base. 

 Hind wing as in aroensis, bearing also the subapical patch of 

 short black hair as in that species, this being absent in the ? . 



Head and thorax deep blue, frons, sides of head, and 

 tegulae metallic greenish blue ; abdomen black with a deep 

 greenish-blue gloss. 



Length of fore wing, c? 24, ^ 22 mm. 



A single pair, 6000 feet, Wandarnnien Mtns., Nov. 



