Heterocera from Dutch JS^ew Guinea. 75 



wltli a black patch below it ; a marginal series of black 

 spots betyreen the veins ; costa dusted with black points.. 

 Hind iving grey-wliite with a daik discocellular spot, a 

 thin ])Ost-discal dark line, a marginal row of from 3-5 

 black dots, fringe pale brown. 



Underside of fure icinrj paler with blackish markings as 

 above. Hind wing dusted with blackish, a well-defined black 

 discal spot, a faint post-discal line and marginal dots. 



Antennae yellowish broAvn, marked with black ; head, 

 abdomen, and legs pale yellowish brown ; patagia black. 



Length of fore wing 17 mm. 



Hab. Arfak Mtus., Angi Lakes, 6000 feet, Jan.-]\Iarch, 



Paralcis aurantifascla latimcCcuJa, subsp. n. 



(PI. IV. fig. 10.) 



P. awantifascia, Prout, Xov. Zool. xxiii. p. 67 (1916) (Mt. Golialli). 



S . The pale band on fure wing is much broader and 

 leaves a narrower margin; the proximal edge of band is 

 straight below vein 3 and directed more distad; the basal 

 'area limited by the basal line is filled in with grey-brown. 

 Eelow, the fore wing has the orange band broader, leaving 

 a smaller dark apical area. 



Hab. Arfak Altns., Angi Lakes, 6000 feet, Jan.-Feb., 

 1914. One specimen. 



Paralcis albistigma, sp. n. 

 (PI, III. tig. 2.) 



? . Upperside. — Fore icing with pinkish-brown ground- 

 colour, much irrorated with black. An irregular black basal 

 line, edged with white on inside. A dark discal band, its 

 inner edge nearly straight and crossing cell at vein 2, 

 its outer edge slightly curved outwardly and crossing end 

 of cell and origin of vein 3. Adjacent to this is a broad 

 white band sparsely scaled Avith ground-colour, reaching 

 from costa to inner margin ; its upper part to vein 4 is 

 twice as wide as lower part, and in cellule 3 it runs out to 

 the margin and fills the cellule; there is a dark comma- 

 shaped costal spot which runs out into a thin, irregular, and 

 indistinct line traversing the band. A waved submarginal 

 white line, sharply angled below vein 3. Marginal border 

 pinkish brown, white at apex. Hind iving grey with a faint 

 white irregular subterminal line which becomes obsolescent 

 anterioily. 



Underside with grey ground-colour. Fore wing with a 



