196 Mr. Ct. T. Bethune-Baker on new 



Hypochrosis prouti, sp. n. 



^ 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen palisli grey, the latter 

 with laterals and venter j'ellow. Botli wings jiale grey with 

 a central obliqne olive-green stripe. In the primaries the 

 stripe is straight and above it is a wedge-shaped black costal 

 spot, and nearer the apex is another similarly (daced and 

 shaped spot, but smaller ; up to the first spot the costa is 

 finely yellow. In the secondaries the green stripe is waved 

 and is edged externally by a very definite black stripe 

 about the same width as the green one. 



Expanse, ^ 42, ? 50 mm. 



Hah. Ekeikei, Mount Kebea, British New Guinea, 4000 

 and 6000 feet respectively ; March and April (A. E. Pratt). 



Types in my collection, ^ from Ekeikei, $ from Mount 

 Kebea. 



Ectropis cessaria, ab. ochreocosta, ab. nov. 



(^ . Head and collar umber-brown, prothorax oclireous 

 grey, rest of thorax and abdomen brown. Primaries burnt- 

 brown with the costa very broadly ochreous grey, almost up 

 to the apex ; a trace of a median line and of a spotted post- 

 median one, a subterminal row of creamy dots terminating 

 at the apex in a fine short curved dash. Secondaries burnt- 

 brown with a submedian dark line and a dark spot at the 

 end of the cell, beyond which is a broadish, indefinite, darkly 

 irrorated, creamy band ; a trace of a dotted creamy line in 

 the subterminal area terminating in a creamy anal dash. 



Expanse 52 mm. 



Hab. Mount Kebea, British New Guinea, 6000 feet ; 

 March and April (A. E. Pratt). 



Type in my collection. 



Paradromalta avihigua, ab. intermedia, ab. nov. 



c? . Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings dull brown 

 finely irrorated all over, with a marginal creamy patch 

 just above the tornus and another on the inner marginal 

 side of it on the primaries, whilst in the secondaries there is 

 a faint trace of a creamy postmedian line, more pronounced 

 on the inner margin than elsewhere. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Hah. Ekeikei, British New Guinea, 1500 feet ; March and 

 April {A. E. Pratt). 



Type in my collection. 



Mr. Prout tells me that this form is intermediate between 

 albiinaculata, Warren, and uni/onnis, Warren. 



