60 Messrs. J. J. Jolcey ami G. Talbot on neio 



Brown or buffy brown throupjhoiit above, biiflfy whitish 

 below, the tips o£ the belly-hairs a clearer buffy than in 

 umbrosus. Hands and feet more or less cinnamon-brown, 

 only becoming blackish on the digits. Tail dull brownish, 

 commonly darkening to black at tip. 



Zululand [Dahl, and liudd Exploration). Natal, fide 

 W. L. Sclater and others. 



Readily distinguishable by its general brownish colour. 



IV. — New Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. By J. J. 

 JoiCEY, F.L.S., F.Z .S., F.E.S., and G. Talbot, F.E.S. 



[Plates I.-IV.] 



The species described in the present paper were collected 

 by Messrs. A., C, and F. Pratt in the region of the Arfak 

 and Wandamraen INIountains in 1914, 



The types are in the collection of Joicey. 



Our thanks are due to Sir G. F. Hampson, of the British 

 Museum, to Lord Rothschild, and to Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, for help kindly given in comparing specimens. 

 Further, Mr. L. B. Front has examined all the Geometridse 

 and given us the benefit of his unrivalled knowledge of this 

 family. 



ArctiidaB. 



Diacrisia ochrifrons, sp. n. 

 (PI. I. fig. 2.) 



Allied to c?i??«2^;fl, B. Bkr. "^^ but easily distinguished by 

 the frons being black at the sides. 



$ . Upperside. — Fure wing with pale ochraoeous ground- 

 colour with markings somewhat as in dinawa ; the basal 

 costal stripe extended below cell to inner margin, the suffu- 

 sion being paler below 1 b ; the discal band naiTOwer than 

 in dinawa, especially at the costa, the spot below vein 3 not 

 joined to the one at the base of cellule 2, and spot below 

 vein 1 a not touching inner margin ; the upper part of 

 post-discal band not running from apex as in dinaiva, but 

 from the costa, where it is 5 mm. broad, and curving out- 

 wards below vein 6 forms a large tooth-shaped patch ; the 



* Diacrisia dinawa, Bettiune-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 413, pi. iv. 

 fig. 25 (1904) (Dinawa, Brit. N. Guinea). 



