286 Mr. L. B. Prout on neie 



XL. — I^eio Moths ni the Jo'xcnj Collection. 

 By Luuis B. Bkout, F.E.S. 



Family Arctiidae. 



1. Utethetsa dorsifumata^ sp. n. 



(? ? .—38-42 mm. 



Decidedly larger on an average than pulohelloides, Ilnipsii., 

 further differing as follows : — 



Head more ochreous (less mixed with white). Abdomen 

 dorsally with strong smoky suffusions. 



Fore icing with the black lines macular, but strongly 

 thickened, the spots usually in part confluent ; a characteristic 

 longitudinal black white-ringed spot behind the end ot" M 

 and the base of Jlil* ; red spots more quadrate in form, more 

 completely (though very slenderly) dark-edged ; terminal 

 black spots more consistently and uniformly continued across 

 cilia. 



Hind wing of S "ith a black-grey streak (I or 2 mm. in 

 length) along middle part of the ridge which overhangs the 

 inner-marginal pocket ; hair-pencil apparently less developed 

 and whiter ; discal mark in both sexes varying in develop- 

 ment (strong to obsolescent), perha])s stronger in the ? than 

 in the S '> apical border rather broad ; hamate patch with its 

 posterior edge longer than itsanteiior, produced to a proximal 

 ])oint on or just behind M' ; dark terminal markings between 

 fold and tornus better developed. 



Fore wing beneath with the white parts suffused with 

 smoke-colour, exct})t for a clear patch at and sometimes 

 bej-ond end of cell. Hind wing beneath with the dark 

 markings enlarged. 



Angi Lakes, Arfak Mtns., North Dutch New Guinea, 

 GOOO tt., Jan.-Feb. 1914 {A., C, db F. Pratt)] 3 J cT , 

 3 ? ?._ 



The increase of black more recalls 5a/o7?io/i/s, Rtlischd., and 

 rvberrinia, lithschd., but they have both more nearly the <J 

 anteima oi pectinata^ Hmpsn. The group still needs careful 

 revision on extensive material, but the present species is 

 KufHciently outstanding. 



Family Hypsidae. 



2. Nyciemera. 2^ellex pervectoj subsp. n. 



S ? .—37-41 mm. 



Un an average smaller than the other races of pelle.v, Linn., 



