444 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Bakev on new 



with scales cliestnut-Q-rey, tipped with dark chestnut-brown, 

 with creamy lono- bristles like hairs ; abdomen grey. Pri- 

 maries greyish white, so closely striated with chestnut-grey 

 that onl}' tine lines of the ground-colour show ; two round 

 ocellations ibllowing each other and touching beyond the cell 

 of a deep crimson, with pupils of bright orange and pale 

 mauve ; below the cell a crimson-brown mark divided by 

 vein 1 b, and a similar coloured lunule in the tornus ; apex 

 pale tawny. Secondaries white, with apex broadly dark grey, 

 rapidly tapering into a fine line along the termen. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Uab. Arfak Mountains, 4000 feet ; February and March. 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Near P. prunifera, Swinh. 



Ancara kehecB oJivescenSj subsp. n. 



(J . Similar in general pattern to A. kthece^ but all the 

 paler parts of the primaries (including both the stigmata) are 

 filled in with a delicate olive-green, so that the base, much of 

 the costa, the median area, and the terminal area are mostly 

 of this colour; the thorax and head are also of the same hue. 



Hah. Arfak Mountains, 4000 feet, February and March. 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



This form apparently replaces A. hehece, B-B., in the 

 Arfak Mountains. 



Sesamia arfaki^ sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey. Primaries 

 pale greyish brown, sparingly and very finely irrorated along 

 the costal and inner marginal areas witli very minute darker 

 scales ; a dark stripe along the lower margin of the cell and 

 slightly extending along veins 2 to 5 ; a trace of a curved 

 crenulate very fine postmedian line. Secondaries uniform 

 very pale grey. 



Expanse 53 mm. 



Hah. Arfak Mountains, 4000 feet ; February and March. 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Sarrothripa costiplagata^ sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax grey, the latter spotted with black ; 

 abdomen grey. Primaries greenish grey, whitish along 

 the costa ; a black basal costal dot, two black patches on 

 the costa, from the median one a very oblique dark stripe 

 extends nearly to the tornus, and from the postmedian one a 



