Lepidoptera from Africa and the East, 5G9 



Secondaries wliite, with the basal three-quarters of the wing 

 creamy white ; a restricted urea al)Ove the costal vein at 

 base deep crimson ; termen broadly more or less deep crimson, 

 excavated between veins 4 and 6, increasing in width below 

 4 to the inner margin, witii interneinal terminal dashes of 

 lustrous metallic bluish which extend a little distance up the 

 inner margin. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Hub. Isle of iMioswar, New Guinea; October {Pratt). 



Type in Coil. Kenrick. 



Bindahara arfaki, sp. n. 



cJ . Primaries with the base to nearly the end of the cell, 

 the costa nearly to vein 4, and the termen exceedingly 

 broadly b'ack, leaving a large inverted U-shaped patch over 

 the postmedian area to the inner margin white. Secondaries 

 with the base black, very restricted ; the median and post- 

 median area white right across the wing ; terminal area very 

 broadly black, increasing in width to the anal angle; lobe- 

 spot black, bordered externally with metallic bluisli ; a fine 

 bluish metallic terminal line from vein 3 to the tail and a 

 central metallic bluish line all down the centre of the long- 

 black tail. Underside : both wings white. Primaries with 

 three transverse broad black bands from the costa across the 

 cell, the two outer ones broadly confluent on the costa; two 

 broad wedge-shaped black bands from the cosfa to vein 4 

 beyond the cell ; termen broadly blackish for half the radial 

 area, bisected by an obscure whitish line. Secondaries with 

 a blackish wedge-shaped basal patch from the costa to the 

 origin of vein 2 ; a broad blackish basal stripe extending all 

 along the fold, and touching finely the very broad black 

 terminal area, which is bisected by a more obscure whitish 

 line than in the primaries; the anal angle of this black area 

 is suffused indefinitely with yellowish from the inner margin 

 to vein 5 ; lobe-spot and tail as in the upper surface, with 

 the addition of a metallic-blue interneural dash below vein 2 

 and a trace of a second between veins 2 and 3. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Hah. Warmasin, GOOO feet, Arfak Mountains, Dutcli New 

 Guinea ; February {Pratt). 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Geometridae. 

 Negla nudalla, sp, n. 

 (J . Head and thorax -whitish grey, the latter spotted with 



