158 



ARCTTAD.K. 



bristle ; fore wing with the inner margin strongly lobed and fringed 

 with hair; a fringe of hair below the cell on underside, the upper 

 margin of cell downeurved, vein 11 arising from the same point 

 as 10, retracted almost in an S-shape and becoming coincident 

 with 12 ; hind wing very ample, the medial part of costa fringed 

 with Ions' hair, vein 8 very sinuous, 7 arising from before angle 

 of cell and widely diverging from 6, the upper discocellular very 

 oblique. 



White ; antenna?, thorax, anal tuft, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen tinged with brown. Fore wing with the costal edge 



Fig. 81. — Scoliacma hampsoni, c?, $. j- 



brownish, the lobe on inner margin tinged with brown. Underside 

 of fore wing with the fringe of hair fulvous, the costal area and 

 area beyond the cell suffused with brown; hind wing with the 

 costal area tinged with brown. 



2 . White ; thorax tinged with oebreous ; fore wing with the 

 costal edge brown, the costal area on underside suffused with 

 brown. 



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

 type t <S > $ albescens in Coll. Rothschild ; Be. N. Guinea, 

 Dinawa. 1000' (Pratt), type f c? and type nivea $ in Coll. 

 Bethune- Baker. Exp. 126 millim. 



181 b. Scoliacma virginea. 



Scoliacma virginea, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 193 (1908). 



Antenna? of male bipectinate, the branches dilated at extremity 

 and ending in a bristle ; fore wing with the tornal half of inner 

 margin strongly excised, the subcostal nervure downeurved beyond 

 middle and fringed with shore downeurved hair with a fringe of 

 long hair below it on median nervure on underside, the neuration 

 distorted; bind wing with the costal area very ample, vein 8 curved 



