23i (hi new hepltloplera from New Guinea. 



cipcx of cell reaching- far beyond it; beyond this patch again 

 are two green-golden dots. Hind wing below reddish choco- 

 late, powdered with pink scales on outer third; an irregular, 

 broad, oblique band of glittering green-gold reaches from 

 upper half of base of wing three-fourths across the wing 

 towards anal angle ; two green-gold patches beyond this 

 band on and above vein 8 ; two black spots bordered with 

 metallic opal blue, beyond which is a chestnut patch at anal 

 angle ; a submarginal metallic opal blue line from vein 1 to 

 vein 3. 



Length of fore wing 24 mm. 



Hah. Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, up 

 to 3000 feet, Oct.-Dec. 1910 [A. S. Meeh) ; a small series. 



Family Sphingidae. 



2. Panacra e.vcellens^ sp. n. 



(^ . Pectus brownish buff; fore legs, coxae brownish pink 

 washed with olive, rest pale pink ; middle legs olive, a pink 

 line on outside of tibire ; hind legs, coxse brownish pink, 

 tibiae pale olive, outside whitish, tarsi brown; palpi, lower 

 lialf pale pink, upper half dark olive-green ; head dark olive- 

 green ; antennas pink; thorax dark olive-green, a central 

 band black anteriorly, orange posteriorly, patagia edged out- 

 wardly with pink; abdomen huffish grey, dorsally first segment 

 olive mixed with pink hairs, rest pale brownish olive edged 

 with orange-yellow. Fore wing dark olive-green ; a 

 yellowish-pink patch, broken into three at base by black 

 patches; a central transverse pale pink band, edged out- 

 wardly witli orange-pink ; apical third between vein 4 and 

 termen pinkish silvery grey, sparsely powdered with olive 

 scales and with an olive wedge-like subterminal patch 

 between vein 7 and costa and four submarginal olive dots 

 above veins 4, 5, 6, and 7, and zigzag olive line near basal 

 end of pale area. Hind wing: basal two-thirds orange- 

 yellow, marginal third sooty black tinged with pale brown; 

 an indistinct pinkish patch near anal angle; abdominal area 

 broadly huffish wood-brown, suffused with pale olive. Under- 

 side of abdomen pale pink. 



Length of fore wing 35 mm. 



JIah. Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, up 

 to 3000 feet, Oct.-Dec. 19.10 {A. S. Meek) ; 1 <^ . 



