MOTHS FROM DUTCH NEW OTJTNEA. 553 



is a dark patch with four pn.le lunules, wliiich aro absent in pseudo- 

 ccasalis. 



Exp. 30 mm. 



Arfn,k Mts., Isla,nil of Mioswar, Mt, Goliatli, and Britisli New 

 Guinea. 



_ It is possible that there is anotlier allied species, but it may be 

 simply a larger form of cmmlis. 



Pygospila tyres Oram. 



Crocidolomia binotalis Zell 



Sameodes polythliptalis Hmpsn, 



Omphisa repetitalis Moore. 



Omphisa varieqata, sp. n. (PI. LXVIII. fig. 19.) 

 Head, Ifegs, antennae, and palpi chestnut-brown ; thorax chest- 

 nut-brown, the patagia pale; abdomen darker, spotted with iialer 

 on back. 



Fore wing pale ochreous with brown markings. 



Fore wing : basal patch brown, an antemedian and a postmedin,n 

 line enclosing a darker band which does not reach the costa, but 

 which surrounds a conspicuous subtriangular pale spot near the 

 end of the cell; beyond this is an angulated line followed by a 

 darker shade ; costa with six lunules. 



Hind wing pale, with an irregular sharply-defined median band 

 and a double outer dark line. 



Exp. 32 mm. 



Island of Mioswar, Dutch New Guinea, 



Noorda nigripunctalis Hmpsn. 



NOORDA ARFAKENSIS, Sp. n. (PI. LXVIII, fig. U.) 



_ _Antenna3 and palpi brown ; legs white, with brown tips to the 

 joints ; head ochreous ; thorax white ; abdomen whitish the last 

 segment grey, anal tuft white. ' 



Fore wing creamy white, the costa reddish ; a dark brown dot 

 at base, another at the beginning of the cell, and a third at the 

 end ; a dark brown annulated subterminal line ; the remainder 

 of the wing to the outer margin of a chestnut colour mottled 

 with darker. 



Hind wing white. Fringes pale brown, shading into white at 

 the angle of the hind wing, 

 Exp, 30 mm. 

 Arfak Mts., 4000 feet, 



Dausara amethystina Butler, 



/■n?^T v^^*^^^ ^^ subdivision of CrocidojyJwra) angulifera, sp, n, 

 (PI, LXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Head, legs, antenna;, and palpi straw-colour ; thorax and abdo- 

 men pale golden, the last few segments becoming fuscous. 

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