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row of similar dark dots, followed by a double similar post- 

 median row, a subtermiiial row of dark dots ; termen with a 

 minute dark triangle at the end of each veiu. Secondaries 

 palish greyish brown. 



?. Similar to the male, but much paler, so that the dark 

 dots stand out much more prominently. 



Expanse, ($ 52, ? 50 mm. 



Hah. British New Guinea : Mount Kebea and Babooni, 

 3000 ft., July to September {A. E. Pratt). 



Types in my collection. 



Scranchia I'diopti'a, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and collar deep coffee-brown, thorax and abdo- 

 men grizzly. Primaries greyish, mottled, with an indefinite, 

 clearer, interrupted, twin subbasal line not reaching the 

 inner margin, a similar median line between the two ; almost 

 on the fold is a raiseil ovate spot of brownisli colour, an 

 irregular dark median stripe across the vving, adjoining 

 which is a tawny spot of moderate size with a fine black 

 crescent in it; a fine dentate dark postmedian line, beyond 

 which is a broad, very interrupted, dark, curved band ; 

 outside, but adjoining it, is a small dark cloud, with an 

 irregular serrate subterminal line; termen finely dark, on 

 the costa before the apex are four dark dots. Secondaries 

 brownish. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Uab. Madagascar, 2500 ft., January to March. 



Type in my collection. 



Parathemerastis turneri, var. melam'stis, var . nov. 



? . Thorax and primaries sooty grey, with the markings 

 just visible, the ash-grey orbicular stigma standing out very 

 prominently from its dark surroundings, a slightly cinnamon- 

 coloured cloudy area before the stigma. Secondaries dark 

 brown. 



Expanse 62 mm. 



Hub. Mount Kebea (6000 ft.), March to April ; DInawa 

 (4000 ft.), August; British New Guinea. 



Type in my collection. 



Omich/is erythra, sp. n. 



(J . Head and thorax cinnamon-red, abdomen dirtyochreous. 

 Primaries cinnamon-red with the basal and antemedian areas 

 finely irrorated'with brownish grey ; a median serrated line 

 loses itself in the darker' area, the postmedian dark line is 



