198 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker on new 



Hah. Dinawa, British New Guinea, 4000 feet ; September 

 (4000 feet). 



Type in my collection. 



I am greatly indebted to my friend Mr. Louis B. Prout 

 for identifying my New Guinea Geometridae and for his 

 opinion on the preceding species, and it gives me pleasure to 

 dedicate one or two to him. 



NoctuidaB. 

 Sericia obalauce, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax umber-brown with darker bars, 

 abdomen umber-brown with mauve irridescence. Primaries 

 brown with basal and subbasal dark broadish interrupted 

 lunulated bands ; antemedian line double, somewhat crenulate, 

 a small dark spot in the cell followed by the double median 

 line, which is moderately straight though slightly oblique to 

 vein 2, below which a deep indentation occurs towards the 

 termen, the usual large ocellated spots occur in the radial 

 area ; the postmedian indefinite band is edged finely with 

 paler brownish, and is followed by a broad band of iridescent 

 brown, edged outwardly by a subterminal crenulated line. 

 Secondaries with the median line sharply serrate, bej'ond 

 which the bands follow exactly those of the primaries. 



Expanse 88 mm. 



Hub. Obalau Island, Fiji; June. 



Type in my collection — a series. 



Next to S. simplex. 



Pterothysanidae. 

 Hihrildes albopunctata, sp. n. 



$ . Caput and frons yellow, antennae black ; thorax black, 

 with whitish patagia and a yellowish-white dash on each 

 side o£ the black central line; collar yellowish with a dark 

 central dividing dash ; abdomen sooty grey with yellowish 

 segmental subdorsal spots. Primaries sooty black, with the 

 radial area whitish from the costa to vein 2 ; apex and 

 termen sooty black. Secondaries white with broad sooty- 

 black terminal areas, in which is a row of six white marginal 

 spots ; cell closed by a blackish dash. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Hob. Fort Jamieson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



This may be a white local race of H. ansorgei. 



