192 NOCTUID®. 
*6434. Lophoptera meeci. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 7.) 
Stictoptera mecki, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 235 (1906). 
¢. Head and tegule chocolate-red with a fulvous dorsal stripe ; 
thorax fulvous; pectus and legs greyish tinged with brown, the 
fore legs chocolate-brown, the tarsi blackish ; abdomen greyish 
fuscous, the base with some fulvous, the ventral surface ochreous 
white. Fore wing fulvous suffused with chocolate-brown leaving 
fulyous bands before the ante- and postmedial lines ; two indistinct 
oblique subbasal lines ; antemedial line inwardly oblique, diffused 
on outer side, with slight white points before it at median nervure 
and submedian fold; reniform defined by brown and with sinuous 
outline, some whitish points on its inner edge; a sinuous medial 
line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line inwardly oblique 
and minutely waved, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved at 
submedian fold where there is a diffused dark spot beyond it; sub- 
terminal line minutely waved, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 
middle; a fine reddish terminal line; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing 
fuscous brown, the cilia greyish at tips; the underside grey-brown. 
Hab. Br. New Guinea, Aroa R. (Meek), type f ¢ in Coll. 
Rothschild. xp. 40 millim. 
*6435. Lophoptera rufa. (Plate CLXXIX. fiz. 8.) 
Stictoptera rufa, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (1996). 
d. Head and thorax dark chocolate-red ; tarsi blackish ringed 
with grey; abdomen greyish fuscous, ventrally pale grey. Fore 
wing deep chocolate-red ; indistinct inwardly oblique antemedial 
and medial lines; postmedial and subterminal lines inwardly 
oblique, minutely waved. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish 
tinge, the cilia grey at tips; the underside grey-brown. 
Hab. Br. New Guinea, Aroa R. (Meck), typet gS in Coll. 
Rothschild. wp. 32 millim. 
*6456. Lophoptera buruana. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 9.) 
Stictoptera buruana, Holl. Noy. Zool. vii. p. 555 (1900). 
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with bronze-green ; 
legs brown, the tarsi with pale rings; pectus and ventral surface 
of abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing dark brown suffused with 
bronze-green, a pale silvery green patch at middle of inner area; 
subbasal line represented by two blackish striae from costa; ante- 
medial line indistiuct, double, minutely waved ; medial line blackish, 
waved; reniform irregular, defined by blackish and with rufous 
mark in centre; postmedial line double, blackish, minutely waved, 
incurved at discal and submedian folds; subterminal line silvery 
green indented by dark streaks on the veins ending in whitish 
points; a terminal series of black strize defined on inner side by 
grey striz and with whitish points between them on the yeins; cilia 
