LepiJoptera from Africa and the East. 197 



^Jyriohlephara dinaicana^ sp. n. 



? . Both winff.s wliite with nnmerous darker lines and 

 maikinji'S. Primaries Avith submedian, median, and post- 

 median dark lines, the area between the two former and near 

 them being finely irrorated with grey ; the postmedian line 

 is irregular, angled and curved, and broadly blackish for its 

 costal portion, wliere it is deeply angled outwards ; in this 

 area also the wing is closely irrorated up to the apex and 

 slightly so near the tornus. The secondaries have median, 

 postmedian, and subterminal lines, the latter indistinct, tiie 

 two former with irrorations on their external edges ; there 

 are also small irrorated patches in the apical and tornal 

 areas. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



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

 (A. E. Pratt). 



Type in my collection. 



This species is near suhtrita, Warren. 



Myriohlephara dinaioa, ab. mediohscura^ ab. nov. 



<^ . Similar to the type-form, but with the whole of the 

 median area entirely filled in with dark brown, extending 

 along the fold to the postmedian line. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa, 4000 feet ; September [A. E. Pratt). 



Type in my collection. 



Myriohlephara paralucidata, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely irrorated with 

 brown. Both wings whitish, irrorated with brown. Pii- 

 maries with a broad subbasal brown band from costa to inner 

 margin ; a trace of a median irregular line, postmedian 

 angled and waved line definite, beyond wiiicii the area is 

 almost solid brown so dense are the irrorations up to the 

 finely crenulated white subterminal line, beyond which the 

 wing is closely irrorated with brown, except a central ter- 

 minal spot which is white. Tiie basal and median areas are 

 less irrorated with brown. Secondaries with two median and 

 postmedian lines, the two median are faint and broadisii, tiie 

 postmedian is fairly distinct with a broad external edgino- of 

 pale brownish irrorations, the terminal area is broadly pale 

 greyish brown. 

 Expanse 26 mm. 



