Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. 81 



viridana, the fore wing measuring 22 mm. The outer margin 

 of the fore wing is not crenulate ; tlie discal line is straight ; 

 the abdomen is pale buff; the antennse darker. Specie^ 

 of this genus vary in colour and in development of wing- 

 markings. 



c? . Upperside dark green. Fore loing with a thin curved 

 brownish basal line; a brown discocellular dot ; a thin and 

 strongly waved brownish discal line from about middle of 

 costa, curved outwardly to vein 7, thence obliquely inwards 

 to inner margin proximally of its middle ; a brown post- 

 discal line placed as in vishu, but more connected. Hind 

 wing with a curved discal line and a post-discal zigzag line 

 as on fore wing ; inner margin grey-white ; cilia ochreous, 

 edged with brown outwardly. Both wings with fringes 

 crenulate. 



Head and palpi greenish yellow ; antennae ochreous ; 

 thorax green as wings ; abdomen grey- white ; pectus 

 yellowish green ; legs ochreous. 



Length of fore wing 18 mm. 



Hab. Wandammen Mtns., 3000-4.000 feet, Nov. One 

 specimen. 



Taragama melanospilofus, sp. n. 

 (PI. II. fig. 7.) 



Near purpureocastanea, Roths.*, but chiefly distinguished 

 by the black area of the hind wing and black upper surface 

 of abdomen. 



(^ . Upperside. — Forewing chestnut-brown ; a black but in- 

 distinct basal and antemedian line, directed distad ; a dark 

 post-discal line, directed proximally ; an outer post-discal line, 

 slightly angled at 6 ; a subtermiual series of small black 

 spots dusted with grey scaling. Hind wing with posterior 

 area to vein 6 black, the remainder chestnut-brown ; two 

 black discal lines visible in the brown area. Fi-inges very 

 short and white. 



Underside. — Fore iving darker brown with post-discal lines 

 as above. Hind wing as above ; some grey scaling on the 

 costal edge. 



Antennse sooty grey ; palpi, head, and thorax chestnut- 

 brown ; abdomen above brownish black, below pale reddish 

 ochreous ; pectus and femora ochreous ; tibiae and tarsi 

 chestnut-brown, the latter with grey scaling. 



Length of fore wing 29-32 mm. 



Hah. Wandammen Mtns., 6000 feet, Nov. 2$ $ . 



* Taragama purptireocasta7tea, Rothschild, Lep. B. 0. U. &. Woll. 

 Exp. pp. 105-106, pi. 2. fig. 57 (1915) (Utakwa River). 



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