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terminal white spot at fold on hind wing (especially beneath) and the 

 black terminal line of hind wing beneath less proximally produced in 

 fold than in the type of rotundimacula ; but without more material 

 from New Guinea it is impossible to say whether these differences are 

 constant. 



CATOCALINAE. 



36. Ulothrichopus macula Hmpsn. reducta subsp. nov. 

 $ $ , 66—70 mm. 



Averages slightly smaller than typical macula Hmpsn. Fore wing 

 rather more contrasted, generally with the pale shades intensified 

 (especially the spot behind the reniform, which is sometimes almost 

 white in macula reducta), and the anterior dark shading proximally to 

 the antemedial line and distally to the postmedial more pronounced, the 

 latter being often continued more or less distinctly to the hindmargin. 

 The discoidal bar on the hind wing is usually reduced to a spot at lower 

 angle of cell (sometimes almost obsolete) and the terminal black band 

 is slightly narrower than in typical macula, and usually ends imme- 

 diately behind M 2 (though two or three specimens show some trace of 

 a narrow, straight continuation as far as SM 2 ). The underside shows 

 a similar reduction in the terminal band of the hind wing and a 

 tendency for the medial band to be slighter or to become almost 

 obsolete ; otherwise as in New Guinea specimens. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, twenty $ $ , 

 eleven ? ? ; 4,600 feet, January, 1920, one ? . 



37. Nyctipao felderi sp. nov. 

 2 , 140 mm. 



Head, thorax, palpus, abdomen and legs fuscous brown. 



Fore wing fuscous brown with a purplish gloss ; very thickly scaled. 

 Faint traces of an excurved, waved antemedial line, from about two- 

 ninths costa to one-fifth hindmargin ; whorl-shaped discoidal mark 

 somewhat as in leucotaenia Gn., but somewhat broader and rounder, 

 without any white on its distal edge, and with the inverted comma- 

 mark less sharply defined ; traces of a vertical, waved medial line from 

 proximal edge of the discoidal mark to hindmargin ; postmedial line 

 almost obsolete ; a rather small rounded white subterminal spot behind 



