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these lines are paler grey ; a dark terminal dash is just below 

 the apex. Secondaries with the niarkiii;^.s o£ the primaries 

 slightly modified carried througii, but there is no subbasal 

 line. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa, British New Guinea, 4000 feet ; August 

 {A. E. Pratt) . 



Type in my collection. 



Casbia strigaria, sp. n. 



cJ ? . Both wings ash-grey^ with very numerous and very 

 fine, short, darker lines, and with broad red strij)es. Pri- 

 maries with a subbasal and a median red line, the latter 

 irregular and rather the broader; a dark point at the end of 

 the cell ; a broadisli, nearly erect, postmedian red stripe, 

 followed almost directly by a large clouded reddish patch, 

 tapering down narrowly at the tornus. Secondaries with a 

 mtdian, a postmedian, and a subterminal reddish stripe, each 

 broader than its predecessor, the last being very broad and 

 indefinite, and showing but little of the grey ground-colour 

 on either side of it. 



Expanse, ^ 25, ? 26 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa, 4000 feet; September. Ekeikei, 1500 feet; 

 March and April {A. E. Pratt). 



Types in my collection, the c? being from Dinawa and the 

 $ from Ekeikei. 



Kear C. scardamiata^ Warren. 



Hypochrosis jyratti, sp. n. 



^ . Head ash-grey, thorax and abdomen brown-grey, anal 

 extremity yellow. Both wings brownish grey, with a median, 

 broad, irregular, olive-green band, not reaching tiie costa and 

 edged all round with a black line ; in the primaries there is, 

 in addition, a black costal spot above the green band and a 

 subterminal, waved, dark grey stripe. In the secondaries 

 there is only the subterminal stripe, which is broadly inter- 

 rupted about veins 4 to 6. 



$ . Both wings rich brownish, with the pattern almost as 

 in the male, but the black markings are absent except for a 

 trace of a dark dash above the green band in the primaries. 



Expanse, ^ 32, ? 43 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa, British New Guinea, 4000 feet; August 

 {A. E. Pratt). 



Types in my collection. 



Near to H. cruptopyrrhata. 



