Lepidoptera from Dutch ]^eio Guinea, 85 



Noctuidae. 



EsASTBIAN^. 



34. Smi'croloha costijascta, sp. n. 



Near quadrapex, Hampson. 



Upperside with reddish-brown ground-colour, basal half 

 paler, washed with purplish. Fore wing with a thick dark 

 brown postdiscal stripe, straight and obliquely placed from 

 apex to inner margin ; tliis is accompanied by an irregularly 

 dentate outer Hue joining it below the apex, the space 

 between the two being tinged with purple; two brown costal 

 lines, the inner beyond middle of costa, forming a greyish 

 band which curves upw^ards to join the postdiscal line just 

 below apex ; a faint irregular subbasal line, a black dot in 

 cell, a faint subterminal dentate line. Hind wing with costa 

 broadly pale ochreous, inner margin narrowly so. A short 

 brown median stripe, followed by a faint postdiscal dentate 

 line, which is emphasized by dots on the veins ; a faint 

 dentate subterminal line. 



Underside reddish brown speckled with black, postdiscal 

 lines marked. Fure wing with costa and inner margin pale 

 ochreous; hind wing with basal area pale ochreous. 



Head and tegulge pale ochreous ; thorax and base of abdo- 

 men pale reddish brown ; rest of abdomen above black 

 mixed with ochreous, below ochreous, and black at sides ; 

 pectus grey-white, legs ochreous speckled with black, tarsi 

 black fringed with white at apices of segments. 



Length of fore wing 12 mm. 



1 S, Wandammen Mtns., 3000-4000 feet, Nov. 



Hypsidae. 



35. Deilemera dinawa, B.-Baker, ab. nigripuncta, ab. n. 



The hind wing bears on the reduced white area a triangle- 

 shaped spot of ground-colour at base of cellule 2. The baud 

 of fore wing is reduced and somewhat broken, leaving a 

 rounded spot at end of cell. 



Three other s[>eciniensof the species from the same locality 

 vary in width of band on fore wing. In one of these the 

 band is very broad and has a projection from the discocellular 

 into the cell nearly to vein 2. 



1 ? , Angi Lakes, Arfak Mtns., 6000 feet, Jan.-Feb. 



