400 ARCTIADiE. 



*185«. Scoliacma aroa. 



Scoliacma aroa, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 416 (1904). 



Fore wing of male without costal fold ; vein 1 slightly bent up- 

 wards at middle and connected by a bar with vein 2 ; hind wing 

 with costal fold on basal bad' of costa below with some roue:h hair 



Fig. 84. — Scoliacma aroa, J. f. 



below it. the apical part of costa excised, veins 6, 7 stalked, 8 from 

 cell. 



S ■ Very pale yellowish. Fore wing with diffused brownish 

 patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3 ; the apical part of 

 termen slightly tinged with brown. Hind wing rather paler. 



Hob. Br. N. Guinea, Up. Aroa R. {Meek), type f 6 i" Coll. 

 Rothschild. JEcep. 22 millim. 



*lS5b. Scoliacma apiciplaga. (Plate XXV. fig. 20.) 



Melansema apiciplaga, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 203 (1913). 



d ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen very pale yellow ; antennae 

 brownish except towards base ; fore and mid tibia' brown in front. 

 Fore wing pale yellow with a fuscous brown patch in and beyond 

 end of cell extending from the costa to vein '.} and shading to paler 

 brown at termen. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside of fore 

 wing with the whole terminal area suffused with brown. 



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

 type f d in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



187. Scoliacma brunnea, insert (syns.) : — 



llema hades, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 420, pi. v. f. 14 (1904). 

 Nishada brunnea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 210 (1912). 



Fore wing of male with large costal fold on underside extending 

 to well beyond middle, the area below the cell clothed with whitish 

 androconia except- towards termen ; vein 1 giving off an obliquely 

 curved spur from middle to middle of vein 2; 3, 4 from cell; 

 6 from below angle of discocellulars. Hind wing with the costal 

 half clothed with whitish androconia on upperside ; vein 2 from 

 towards base of cell; veins 6, 7 coincident, the basal half of sub- 



