564 TINEINA. 



red patch occurs before the apex, through which veins 6 and 7 form two 

 dark lines; cilia brownish fuscous ; underside as above. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous ; anal segment and underside white. Legs brownish fuscous, 

 without white tarsal bands. 



Type ?. (Coll. Saunders) Mus. OXF. [Wlsm. Det. 3741 (1900).] 

 Hab. NEW GUINEA ( Wallace, 265), one specimen. Mus. OXF. 



3669. Pseudocaprima albofimbriata, Wlsm. sp. n. 



= *Caprima gelida, Swinh., Cat. East. & Austral. Lp. Het. Oxf. Mus. I. 61, 

 No. 265 (1892) [partim ' c. Wagaiu (Wallace') '] ; Hmpsn., Cat. Lp. Phal. BM. II. 

 286-7, No - 602 (1900) \_partim ' Waigiou']. 



Antenna [missing]. Palpi short, not extending to the front ; dark 

 fuscous. Head&hdi Thorax fuscous ; patagia with a white spot at their 

 outer edge ; tegulae fuscous. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, with a 

 slight tawny gloss ; a large white spot arising from the dorsum before the 

 middle, tending somewhat obliquely outward, rounded at its upper ex- 

 tremity and nearly reaching to the costa ; a rich chestnut-red patch 

 beyond it is broadly margined by the dark ground colour, except where 

 its lower extremity, somewhat attenuate, touches the dorsum before the 

 tornus ; cilia purplish fuscous, their outer two-thirds on the middle of the 

 termen and at the tornus white ; underside as above, the white cilia very 

 visible. Exp. al. 32 mm. Htndivings with the whole of the basal half 

 snow-white, except the limbus which is narrowly tawny fuscous ; their 

 outer half tawny fuscous, with a faintly indicated diffused patch of 

 chestnut-red before the apex ; cilia purplish ; underside as above, but the 

 red apical patch is much more clearly defined. Abdomen dark greyish 

 fuscous ; anal extremity and the underside white. Legs brownish fuscous, 

 without tarsal bands. 



Type ?. (Coll. Saunders) Mus. OXF. [Wlsm. Det. 3742 (1900).] 

 Hab. WAIGIOU ID. ( Wallace], one specimen. Mus. OXF. 



This species is very closely allied to callopisma, but differs noticeably 

 in the two snow-white patches in the cilia of the forewings, in the rather 

 broader white stripes, in the deeper tint of the red patch and in the less 

 apparent red patch near the apex of the hind wings. 



BETHABGA, Wkr. 

 BETHABGA, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXXIV. 1154 (1865). 



3670. Betharga lycoides, Wkr. 



Betharga lycoides, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXXIV. 1154 (1865) x - 



Type 9. (Coll. Saunders) Mus. OXF. 



Hab. NEW GUINEA 1 (Wallace), one specimen. Mus. OXF. [Drnt. 

 Det. 216(1893).] 



Walker describes the type as a <J, it is a 9. 



