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227. Melanaema asuroides sp. uov. 



9. Resembles an Asura. Antennae dark brown ; head carmine-rose, a brown 

 spot on vertex ; thorax deep brown edged with carmine-rose ; abdomen dull carmine- 

 rose. Forewing purple-brown ; a median large spot on costal region, a similar 



one on and above inner margin, and a dot on lower discocellnlar carmine-rose. 



Hindwing semiliyaline Iniffy grey washed with rose, fringe purple-brown. 



Length of forewing : 12 mm. 



Hub. Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 2000 — 

 .3000 ft., September 1910 (A. >S. Meek). 



228. Melanaema apiciplaga sp. nov. 



cJ. Antennae pale brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen maize-buff. Forewing 



maize-butf, outer two-fifths of wing from costa. to vein 4 purplish black-brown, 

 becoming much jialer towards termen. Hindwing paler maize-bnff. 



Length of forewing : 12 mm. 



Ilab. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 

 3000 ft., October-December 191(1 (A. S. Meek). 



220. Melanaema ochraceorufa sp. nov. 



S- Antennae : basal half orange rufous, outer half rufous grey ; head and thorax 



orange rufous ; alidomen yellowish butf. Forewing divided obliquely; baso-costal 



half rufous grey with costa bright rufous, apico-tornal half orange rufous, becoming 

 darker towards termen. Hindwing yellowish InifF. 



Length of forewing : 14 mm. 



Ilab. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutclf New Guinea, up to 

 3iiiiijft., October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



230. Xanthetis luzonica obiensis subsp, nov. 



c?. Differs from /. licMnica in the much blacker fore wings, the orange markings 

 on disc being much smaller and the subterminal line almost absent. 



?. Has orange on forewing much e.xtended, and a very broad suliterminal 

 iiransc band. Hindwing: whole basal half orange. 



Hub. Laiwui Olii, September 1807 (\V. Dolierty). 



231. Phacusosia grandis sp. nov. 



?. Antennae black; head deep orange, a spot on frons and hinder half of 

 vertex black ; tliorax black with an anterior and a posterior deep orange patch, 

 tcgnlae deep orange edged with black ; patagia, basal portion deep orange, rest 



blatdc ; abdomen dee]i orange, anal segment and edges of basal segment black. 



Forewing black with purple gloss, intraneural spaces paler sooty grey; cell and 



jiatch below median nervure hyaline, hyaline spots on veins 4, 5, and 0. 



Hindwing black strongly glossed with i)urple ; basal two-thirds of costal area 

 wood-grey, a hyaline streak below median vein. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. 



Hub. Mount Goliath, Gentral Dntch New Guinea, 5000— 70oii ft., Mavcli 1911 

 (A. K. Meek). 



