818 ARCTIADJE. 



*1190J. Hemonia simillima. (Plate XLII. fig. 27.) 



Hemonia simillima, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 223 (1913). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish gloss ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen creamy white, the fore legs suffused with brown 

 in front. Fore wing with the basal, costal, and terminal areas 

 brown with a greyish gloss, the rest of wing paler and redder 

 brown ; an indistinct dark antemedial line, arising below costa, 

 excurved in cell and below submedian fold and with a small orange 

 spot on its outer edge at submedian fold ; a small orange discoidal 

 spot; two slight very minutely waved and obliquely excurved dark 

 lines from costa beyond middle to termen above tornus. Hind 

 wing white. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Collingwood Bay, Haidana {Meek'), type f 

 2 in Coll. Rothschild, Kumusi E. (Meek). Exp. 22 millim. 



*1190r. Hemonia sclristacea. (Plate XLII. tig. 28.) 

 Hemonia schistacea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 222 (1913). 



J . Head and thorax blue-grey ; antennae browner ; palpi 

 brownish ; pectus and legs yellowish, the fore and mid legs 

 suffused with brown ; abdomen ye^Jowish white, the ventral surface 

 yellower. Fore wing blue-grey with a silvery gloss; the costal edge 

 blackish ; a curved series of three small antemedial black spots 

 above, in, and below the cell, and a small discoidal spot ; a curved 

 black line from costa towards apex to termen at vein 2, the area 

 beyond it darker. Hind wing yellowish white ; the underside 

 with the terminal half of costa tinged with brown. 



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

 type t 6 in Coll. Eothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



*1190rf. Hemonia murina. (Plate XLII. fig. 29.) 



Hemonia murina, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 223 (1913). 



2 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdo- 

 men white faintly tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown ; a black discoidal point ; the costal edge darker brown ; an 

 obliquely curved brown line from costa beyond middle to termen at 

 vein 2. Hind wing very pale grey-brown. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi E. (Meek), tvpe f £ m Coll. 

 Rothschild Exp. 22 millim. 



1190 e. Hemonia pallida, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 30.) 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; abdomen 

 creamy while ; pectus, logs, and ventral surface of abdomen white 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing creamy white suffused with rufous.; 

 a small rufous discoidal spot with some blackish scales on it ; the 



