On new Lepidoptera from New Guinea. 233 



Hind winjj; pinkisli white ; an indistinct discal band and a 

 series of dots on abdominal area brick-orange ; marginal 

 line orange. 



Lentftli of fore wiii"^ 21 mm. 



llab. Bou Saada, May 1911 {Victor Faroult) ; 1 ? . 



Family Arctiadte. 

 5. I'hragmatohia farouUi, sp. n. 



cJ . Pectus yellowish wood-brown ; tarsi rosy red ; palpi, 

 head, and antennte sooty brown-black ; thorax and abdomen 

 sooty brown, tips o£ tegulce, patagia, and abdomen clothed 

 with brownish-white hairs. Fore wing dark dull wood- 

 brown, suffused with sooty black ; outer niaroin 3 mm. wide, 

 except termen, sooty black; rest of wing with ten or twelve 

 large sooty patches. Hind wing rosy wood-brown, with a 

 black margin 3'5 mm. wide, a subbasal and a post-cellular 

 sooty patch. 



Length of fore wing 17 mm. 



Hah. Bou Saada, May 1911 {Victor Faroult) ; 1 c? • 



XXIII. — Two new Lepidoptera from JSew Guinea. 

 By the Hon. Walter Eothschild, Ph.D. 



Family Lycaenidae. 

 1. Deudoryx meeki, sp. n. 



? . Legs orange-brown ; palpi and frons cliestnut, both 

 edged with dark yellow; vertex chestnut; antennae dark 

 brown, ringed with buff, club chestnut ; thorax and abdomen 

 sooty brown-black. Fore wing above deep shining purple, 

 disc in some lights blackish ; basal third of costal area sooty 

 brown-black. Hind wing above shining deep purple, costal 

 area broadly sooty brown-black ; abdominal area very broadly 

 sooty grey-black, clothed with long hairs and edged with 

 grey ; anal angle produced, a chestnut patch on it fringed 

 witli long, black, battledore-like scales. Fore wing below 

 costal half reddish chocolate, powdered with rosy scales; 

 posterior half greyish wood-brown ; a glittering green-golden 

 patch at base of costal area ; a large and two small green- 

 golden patches in cell and a very large green-golden patch at 



