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margin ; a dark oblique discal line sliowing through from 

 below, and joined to it at inner margin an outwardly curved 

 line, which joins it again at middle of cell ; an irregular 

 post-discal line, anteriorly obsolete, defined from vein 5 and 

 crenulate to inner margin ; this line borders two rounded 

 black spots in 2 and 3, and the trace of a larger spot below 

 them, Avhich is not filled in with black. 



Underside yellow-ochreous, sparsely speckled with black. 

 Fore wing paler in basal and median area, here without 

 black dots. Markings as above, but here defined ; a dark 

 discal line, slightly curved. Hind wing with markings as 

 above, and a thin curved post-discal line which borders inner 

 edge of black spots ; a black discocellular dot. 



Antennse black, shaft ochreous ; head and palpi ochreous- 

 grey ; thorax and abdomen pale oclireous, latter with a 

 brownish dorsal stripe ; legs pale ochreous marked with 

 brownish. 



Length of fore wiug 22 mm. 



Hah. Angi Lakes, Arfak Mtus., 6000 feet, Jan.-Feb. 

 One specimen. 



Hygrochroa purpurascens^ sp. n. 

 (PI. IV. fig. 3.) 



^ . Upperside purplish brown irrorated with yellow- 

 brown. Fore wing with a pale yellow-brown discal patch 

 invaded by ground-colour, occupying outer two-thirds of 

 cell and adjacent costal area, and proximally of discal line 

 reaching below cell to submedian, its upper part divided by 

 a narrow brown discal line which is slightly curved ; an 

 indistinct black post-discal line outwardly curved from costa 

 to vein 4 and then proximally oblique ; a small rounded 

 yellow-white subapical spot and a larger and more oblong 

 spot of similar colour below vein 2. Hind wing with a dark 

 brown slightly curved basal line ; basal area irrorated with 

 yellow-brown ; a post-discal row of 5 or 6 yellow-white 

 spots ; proximally of these a row of black dots, one on each 

 vein. 



Underside paler than the upper, strongly dusted with 

 blackish and much irrorated with yellow-white ; markings 

 less distinct than above. 



Head, antennae, and palpi yellow-brown ; thorax rufous- 

 brown ; legs, abdomen, and underside of thorax pale 

 purplish brown. 



Length of fore wing 18 mm. 



Hab. Arfak Mtus., Angi Lakes, 6000 feet, March. 1 S • 



