450 



ARCTIAD.E. 



6 . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight silvery gloss ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen brown, the last with the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing creamy white, the 

 base, costal area, and a subterminal band fuscous brown with a 

 golden gloss, the band with its inner edge incurved at submedian 

 fold ; cilia fuscous brown. Hind wing ochreous whitish ; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with fuscous brown, the fringe 

 of hair on inner area fulvous. 



$ . Abdomen with the anal tuft brownish ochreous, whitish 

 below ; fore wing pure white, a broad brown antemedial band with 

 a golden cuprous gloss from below costa to inner margin, a large 

 round discoidal patch, and a broad curved subterminal band; hind 

 wing and underside of both wings fuscous. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meek), 

 type f d, 2 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay 

 (Meek) ; Goodenough I. (Meek), 2 ? . Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus PSEUD0SC0LIA, nov. 



Type, P. tenehrifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender ; antennas of male with 

 bristles and cilia ; tibife with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with 

 rough hair, with sublateral tufts of long hair at extremity, the claspers long 

 and clothed with downturned hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliqiiely curved ; the subcostal and median nervures approximated to 

 origin of vein 2 which arises from middle of cell and is downcurved at base ; 

 3 from angle of cell, downcurved at base ; 5 absent ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 

 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10 from angle of cell ; 11 becoming coincident 

 with 1 2. Hind wing with the basal part of costa lobed and fringed with hair, 

 the apical part truncate ; vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 5 absent ; the discocellulars very short ; veins 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from angle of 

 cell. 



In key differs from Pseudilema in the fore wing having vein 6 from the cell. 



*182 g. Pseudoscolia tenebrifera, n. sp. 



Scvliacma brunnescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 215 (1912), $ (nee J). 

 <3 • Head and thorax yellowish tinged with red-brown ; palpi 



Fig. 72. — Ptseuduseolia tenebrifera, J. {< 



fuscous; fore tibiae and tarsi fuscous in front ; abdomen whitish, 

 the extremity and ventral surface pale yellow with a reddish tinge. 



