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NEW ITBANIinAE, DliEPANULIBAE Am^ GEOMETRIDAE 

 EEOM BllITISH NEW GUINEA. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 

 rpHE species described in this paper were all obtained by Mr. A. S. Meek at the 

 1 U,.per Aroa River, British New Guinea, from the end of January to the 

 beginning of April 19U3, at an altitude of 4000 feet and upwards. 



Family URANIWAE. 

 Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 

 Cirrhura gen. nov. 

 • Fore^oing: costa straight, becoming convex before the rouuded_ apex ; hi.,d- 

 margin straight, oblique ; anal angle well marked ; inner margin straight. 



)L.^«./:9: kite-shaped; apex rectangular; anal angle obtuse; hmdmargm 

 at vein 4 with a fine slightly depressed tooth, the margin above it straight, below it 



'^^l:^t;t?riamellate, formed of short clavate teeth, but these not well 

 separtted till LLh apex ; palpi short, narrow, porrect slightly upward; tongue 



'""Ne'uratiun : forewing, cell hardly one-third of wing ; discocellular fine, slightly 

 concave outwards ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second -f .^"^/-^ °- 

 end of cell ; vein 5 from upper end of cell, whence also the stalk of 6 . ,8 the 

 talk of 9, in and vein II, all three near together from about one-half of cell ; 

 9 anastomosing near cell ;ith 8 and not separating till near cos a : hmdwing, 

 cell two fifths of wing ; discocellular very fine, oblique, angled outwards in 

 middled 6, 7 and 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from the angle of discocellular; 

 2 at three-fourths. 



Type : Cirrhura conietifcra spec. nov. 



Nearest to Orudiza Wlk., but abundantly distinct. 



1. Cirrhura cometifera spec. nov. 

 Foreu,in,: purplish grey, thickly and regularly striated -^^J^^ 

 costal ed<.e whitish, with short blackish marks ; lines browmsh fuscous , first t.om 

 relil of costa'to two-fifths of inner margin, straight ; second ^^^^ 

 middle of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, nearly parallel to fiist line, but 

 diVh y neai^r ou inner margin than on costa; the first preceded, the second 

 fS by a narrowly paler Tpace ; cell-spot brown, indistinct ; submarginal line 

 w ved ;er indistinct indicated by 3 brown scarcely conjoine ^po^s ob hqu b 

 below one another in a line pointing towards apex below ;-".;'«' ^^j^'^^^t^ 

 nearer margin below vein 4 ; bindmargin darker tmged ; fnnge pale grej, with 



'"'r''t ""th a double brown outer line with pale centre, from two-thirds 



of cos;:;!;Z:fim. of mner margin, iV-rming a ^^y-^'^-^^^::^^^! 

 bindmargin between veins 4 and 3, then sinuous ; on d.scocellulai an oblique 



