198 Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker on new 



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

 (4000 feet). 



Type m my collection. 



1 am oreatly indebted to my friend Mr. Lonis B. Front 

 for identifying my New Guinea Geometridje and for his 

 opinion on the precedino; species, and it gives me pleasure to 

 dedicate one or two to him. 



Noctuidae. 

 Sericia obalauce, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax umber-brown with darker bars, 

 abdomen umber-brown with mauve irridescence. Primaries 

 brown with basal and subbasal dark broadish interrupted 

 lunnlated bands ; antemedian line double, somewhat crenulate, 

 a small dark spot in the cell followed by the double median 

 line, which is moderately straigiit though slightly oblique to 

 vein 2, below which a deep indentation occurs towards the 

 termen, the usual large ocellated spots occur in the radial 

 area ; the postmedian indefinite band is edged finely with 

 paler brownish, and is followed by a broad band of iridescent 

 brown, edged outwardly by a subterminal crenulated line. 

 Secondaries with the median line sharply serrate, beyond 

 which the bands follow exactly those of the primaries. 



Expanse 88 mm. 



Hah. Obalau Island, Fiji; June. 



Type in my collection — a series. 



Next to S. simplex. 



Pterothysanidae. 

 Hihrildes albopuiictata, sp. n. 



^ . Caput and frons yellow, antennae black ; thorax black, 

 with whitish patagia and a yellowish-white dash on each 

 side of the black central line ; collar yellowish with a dark 

 central dividing dash ; abdomen sooty grey with yellowish 

 segmental subdorsal spots. Primaries sooty black, with tlie 

 radial area whitish from the costa to vein 2 ; apex and 

 termen sooty black. Secondaries white with broad sooty- 

 black terminal areas, in which is a row of six white marginal 

 spots ; cell closed by a blackish dash. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Hab. Fort Jamieson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Tliis may be a white local race of H. ansorgei. 



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