Heterocera from New Guinea. 417 



Secondaries whitish, tinged with yellow, with the inner 

 margin slightly grey. 



$ . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen all darkish 

 grey. Primaries uniform orange-yellow. Secondaries yel- 

 lowish, with the area to beyond the cell darkish grey. 



Expanse, <? 30, ? 34 mm. 



Hab. Vella Lavella (Solomon Isles) ; February and March. 



Type in my collection. 



Allied to E. varians, but the abdomen is dark and the lines 

 differ, whilst the female differs altogether. 



Lymantria ninayi, sp. n. 



Head white, collar finely black, thorax white ; legs white, 

 edged with bright crimson and black ; abdomen black. 

 Primaries with basal area to end of cell and nearly to 

 tornus pure white, rest of wings dark grey; veins yellow, 

 a black basal bar from cell to costa, followed by a short 

 compressed series of four blackish spots in the same area, 

 which is again succeeded by an angulated black mark on the 

 costa, a very deeply serrate black postmedian line with a 

 lighter edge, followed by a much suffused and broader black 

 stripe equally serrate; termen spotted with black between 

 the veins. Secondaries pure white with terminal quarter 

 black, the apex being more broadly black, inner margin 

 narrowly black. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Hab. Ninay Valley (Arfak Mountains), 3600 feet. 



Type in my collection. 



Allied to L. kebece, B-B. 



Pelltjcens, gen. no v. 



Antennas bipectinated to tip with long cilia, fore leg (in ^) 

 with a long hairy spine from tibial joint much longer than 

 the tibia itself. Neuration : primaries, vein 2 from a third 

 from the lower angle, 4 from the lower angle, 5 from the 

 point of union with the discocellulars a little above 4, 6 from 

 the upper angle, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 10 from nearly 

 midway to the apex. Secondaries : 4 from the lower angle, 

 5 from near the lower angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle ; 

 upper quarter of cell deeply recessed. 



Type, Pellucens lactea } B-B. 



Pellucens lactea, sp. n. 

 £ . Head white, antennas black, thorax and abdomen 



