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73. PaRATELLA INTACTA. 



Nephesa intacta Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud., Zool. x. p. 171 (1870). 

 Base Camp ; sea-level. 

 Originally described from Aru, 



74. Paratella decoloe. 



Nephesa decolor Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 176 (1870). 

 Cromna chlorospila, var. decolor Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 61 (1902). 

 Sephena rufilinea Melich. (part.), loc. cit. p. 127. 

 Paratella roseoalba Melich. loc. cit. p. 119. 



Utakvva River, 2500-3000 ft. 



Also recorded from Mysol, Waigiu, and Roon. 



75. Paratella errudita. 



Paratella errudita Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 118 (1902). 

 Utakwa Elver, 2500-3000 ft. 

 Originally described from New Guinea. 



76. Paratella spectra, sp. n. 



Body and legs greyish white slightly tinted with pale ochraceous ; tegmina and 

 wings milky-white, the veins concolorous ; pronotum centrally carinate, mesonotum 

 tricarinate ; tegmina with the costal membrane nearly as broad as radial area, the disk 

 with obscure transverse veins which become more pronounced towards apical area. 



Long., excl. tegm., 10 mm. Exp. tegm. 30 mm. 



Base Camp ; sea-level. 



The body of this specimen is unfortunately too compressed to afford minute 

 structural description. 



77. Paratella iodipennis. 



Ricania iodipennis Guer. Voy. 'Coquille,^ Zool. ii. p. 191 (1830). 

 Utakwa River. 

 Originally described from New Guinea. 



Geapaldus, gen. nov. 

 Head almost as broad as long, the anterior margin centrally angularly incised, the 

 lateral anterior angles thus appearing broadly angularly prominent, an anterior 

 transversely rounded carination centrally reaching the anterior margin, and the lateral 

 and anterior margins carinate, on basal area two distinct callosities ; face longer than 

 broad, concave, lateral margins laminately reflexed, anterior margin centrally angularly 



