52 Messrs. J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot on new 



lilac subtermirial band, shaded with dark grey ; some dark 

 grey shading on distal and extreme basal areas ; sparse 

 lilac-grey dusting over the wing. Hind wing fuscous-grey, 

 some sparse white scaling on outer margin ; fringe fuscous, 

 dusted with white. 



Underside fuscous grey. Fore wing with inner half of 

 fringe white; an ochreous tinge on costa near apex. Hind 

 wing finely dusted with white. 



Antennae reddish brown ; palpi blackish brown ; head 

 fuscous mixed with grey-white : thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous ; femora and tibiae fuscous, tarsi ochreous. 



Length of fore wing 23 mm. 



Hab. An<ii Lakes, Arfak Mtns., 6000 feet, March. 



2 ? ? . A specimen in the B.M. from Mt. Goliath. 



Subfamily F o c i l l i n ^. 



Mecodina polysciri^ sp, n. 

 (PI. L fig. 5.) 



Allied to ekeikei, B.-Bkr. *, but darker in colour, no white 

 discocellvilar points and no serrated line within the pale 

 post-discal band ; subterminal black dots, which are absent 

 in ekeikei. 



^ . Upperside. — Fore wing fuscous brown, proximal two- 

 thirds with a purplish tinge ; an irregular fuscous basal 

 line; a black dot in the cell; two Avaved discal lines, 

 slightly outwardly curved from the costa, the space between 

 them without purple tinge ; inner edge of darker distal 

 area defining a pale post-discal band ; an irregular sub- 

 terminal series of black dots between the veins ; termen 

 slightly purplish. Hind wing fuscous-brown. 



Underside paler than above. Hind iving with a faint 

 blackish discal band, and an indistinct subterminal line. 



Antennae ciliate, fuscous-brown ; head, palpi, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs fuscous-brown. 

 Length of fore wing 20 mm. 



Huh. Wandammen Mtns., 3000-JOOO feet, Nov. 1 $. 

 In B.M. a specimen from Fak-Fak, Dutch S.W. Kew 

 Guinea. 



We place this species provisionally in the genus Mecodina., 

 but it difiFers from the type-form of that genus in vein 5 of 

 the hind wing arising above the lower angle of cell. The 

 antennae are of moderate length with long cilia. 



* Ceromacra ekeikei, Bethune-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 284 (1906) 

 (Brit. N. Guinea). 



