neiu Species of Lepldoptera. 381 



tliat the basal and antemedian areas are as dark as the rest 

 of the wilier, not pale chestnut-colour as in the male. It is 

 necessary, tlierefore, to give a new name to the female first 

 described ; it will probably be well to repeat the description. 

 I therefore i;anie it 



Pseudop>hix callipepla, sp. n. 



? . Head reddish ; thorax and dorsum of proximal (not 

 promiiial) abdominal segments pale orange-reddish ; abdomen 

 dark grey. Primary wirii base and metlian area orange-fiiwn 

 colour; postmedian area dark reddish, edged by a fine irre- 

 guhir line of white scales ; terminal area broiidly reddish 

 orange mottled with brown. Secondary orange-fawn ; 

 median and postmedian area reddish, edged by an irreguhar 

 line of Avhitish scales; terminal area very broadly reddish 

 orange mottled with brown. 



Exi)anse 64 mm. 



liab. Mount Kebea and other New Guinea localities. 



Type in my collection, 



LymantriadaB. 

 Dasychi.ra wandammena, sp. n. 



^ . Head, collar, and thorax greyish white, the latter with 

 a bar of black on each side of the metathorax, abdomen 

 brownish. Primaries whitish grey, a deeply indeiitated fine 

 black snbbasal line; there is an irregular greyisii area edged 

 externally with blackish adjoining the subbasal line; median 

 area white, with a slight yellow tinge ; median line sharply 

 dentate and irregular; the postmedian crenulate black line 

 is irregular ; between these last two lines there is an ovate 

 white mark, edged finely with black around two-thirds of it ; 

 area greyer up to the termen ; a very irregular subteruiinal 

 row of black internervular dashes. Secondaries yellowish, 

 with the outer half sooty brown. 



Expanse 64 mm. 



Hah. Wandammen Mountains (3000-4000 fr.), Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



Type in Coll. Joicey. 



This species is very near D. cerigoides, Wlk., from Borneo. 



Euproctis Jlavipunctata, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and proximal segments of the abdomen 

 bright orange-red ; abdomen black, with whitish anal tuft. 

 Ann. cfc Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xvii. 26 



