Ileterocera from Dutch New Guinea. Gl 



^ . Upperside. — Fo7'e w'uig reddish browu, thickly irro- 

 rated with grey-white and sparsely so by pale green, A 

 reddish-browu and deeply-curved basal line ; a subbasal 

 U-shaped line not touching lower submedian, and parallel to 

 it an antemedian line ; a forked discal line^ its upper part 

 formed by the discocellular, its lower part divei'gent from 

 vein 3 ; a double post-discal line, angled in cellule 3, the 

 outer line black and well defined ; an irregular subtermiual 

 line ; at end of cell a rounded white spot centred with brown, 

 and white scaling above it on costa ; a similar and smaller 

 spot outside the end of cell, and a white spot above it on 

 costa ; a similar spot below the cell on the antemedian line; 

 fringe dotted with white at the veins. Hind iving y/iih. basal 

 two-thirds white, distal margin pale rufous ; costa scaled 

 with brown ; a quadrate blackish apical patch. 



Underside. — Fore winy reddish brown; inner margin 

 white. Hind wing white, some brown dusting at apex. 



Antennae rufous ; palpi dark reddish brown, tipped with 

 white ; head and thorax reddish brown, irrorated with white 

 scaling ; legs reddish brown marked with white ; pectus 

 dirty white ; abdomen missing. 



Length of fore wiiig 18 mm. 



Hab. Arfak ]Mtns._, Angi Lakes, Jan. -Feb. \ S • 



Gar get t a melanosticta, sp. n. 

 (PI. II. tig. 5.) 



Distinguished from punctatissima, B.-Bkr."^, by the large 

 and blackish stigma. 



^ . Upperside. — Fo7'e wing ochraceous, irrorated with 

 blackish brown. A double w^aved basal line ; a very in- 

 distinct double antemedian line, somewhat crenulate ; a 

 post-discal row of black dots between the nervures, the 

 anterior two with two others placed next them, the third 

 below, the fourth and fifth shifted inwards, the sixth, seventh, 

 and eighth placed more proximal in an oblique line ; distally 

 of these an indistinct blackish-brown crenulate line ; a 

 subterminal series of eight distinct black dots ; a marginal 

 series of black dots triangularly shaped ; an oblong and 

 slightly rounded blackish-brown stigma edged with black ; 

 a triangular blackish costal shade from apex to post-discal 

 line. Hind wing pale rufous, ochreous at the base. 



Underside ochraceous, hind wing paler. 



Antennae ochraceous ; palpi ochraceous, mixed with brown 



* Gargetta punctatissima, Bethune-Baker, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist, 

 ser. 8, vol. xvii. pp. 382-383 (1916J (Brit. IS'. Guinea). 



