Ileterocera from New Guinea. 449 



the antennas ; thorax dove-grey, with patagia and sides of 

 thorax golden olive-brown, meeting on the metathorax ; 

 abdomen dove-grey, yellow on the ventral surface, with a 

 slightly golden-brown patch on the dorsum of the two 

 terminal segments. Primaries dove-grey, with an olive-grey 

 subovate large spot on the costa near the base, and below 

 this below the cell a trace of a small dark spot palely 

 encircled, a double median dark line twice deeply indented, 

 enclosing a somewhat dark area, an obscure crenulate double 

 postmedian line also enclosing a somewhat darker area, apex 

 and lower radial area olive-brown, the latter with a dark 

 grey spot above vein 2, a subterminal broadish line of 

 golden olive-brown edged internally with very pale grey; 

 termen broadly olive-grey, edged internally by a very dark 

 olive black-brown curved stripe. Secondaries: base pale grey 

 with yellow showing through, a broadish irregular waved 

 dark median line followed by a yellow band interrupted by 

 the veins, beyond which the area is dark blackish brown to 

 the termen, with a postmedian row of yellow spots ; costa and 

 apex broadly pale yellow. 



Expanse 129 mm. 



Bab. Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 4000 feet ; 

 February and March. 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Eupterotidae. 

 Nervicompressa erectilinea, sp. n. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous brown, abdomen 

 with an orange tinge. Primaries pale ochreous brown, with 

 a small pale spot darkly encircled in the cell near the base, 

 an erect straight dark median line, beyond which the post- 

 median area is darker and terminates in a scalloped edge, 

 apex also darker. Secondaries pale orange-brown, with a 

 trace of a darker median and curved postmedian line. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Hub. Ninay Valley, 3000 feet, Arfak Mountains, Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



Type in my collection. 



Paeamaeane, gen. nov. 



Head and thorax clothed with rough shortish hairs. 

 Antennas bipectinate. Legs hairy. Wings broad : primaries 

 roughly triangular, rapidly expanding ; secondaries fairly 

 full. Neuration : primaries, vein 4 from the lower angle, 



