282 New Geometri&ae from Central Geram 



5. Spaniocentra stictoschema sp. nov. 



$ . 37 mm. 



Face dull red. Palpus reddish above, dirty white beneath. Vertex 

 white. Occiput narrowly red. Antennal shaft white proximally, 

 reddish distally ; pectinations ochreous. Thorax above green, beneath 

 white. Abdomen above red-brown, mixed with white towards 

 extremity, the paired white subdorsal spots of the third and fourth 

 segments well separated by the ground colour at the suture and 

 slightly edged with ochre-yellow on their proximal and posterior 

 sides; beneath white; anal tufts well developed. Legs whitish; 

 hind tibia strongly dilated, the spurs rudimentary. 



Fore wing with termen stongly angled at E 3 — shape more extreme 

 than in undiferata Walk., but not quite as in gibbosa Prout $ ; DC 2 

 with the inward angle rectangular (about as in gibbosa) ; bright green ; 

 costal edge snow-white, ending in small subterminal spots and con- 

 tinued finely in reddish to apex ; antemedian and postmedian lines 

 comparatively well developed, especially as red-brown spots or teeth 

 on the veins ; antemedian from one-fourth costa to near middle of 

 hindmargin weak between M 2 and SM 2 ; celldot large, not mixed with 

 black ; another, rather less large, dot anteriorly thereto (on DC 2 ) ; 

 postmedian line dentate, oblique outwards from two-thirds costa to 

 E 1 , then parallel with termen to M 1 ; tornal blotch represented by two 

 purplish-centred spots, a round-oval one between the medians and a 

 crescentic one at tornus ; terminal line fine, reddish, with small 

 purple-mixed triangular extensions on the veins ; fringe light ochreous- 

 brown, dark-spotted at the veins. Hind wing rather narrow and 

 elongate, the tooth at E 3 pronounced ; abdominal flap white, some- 

 what expanded, long-fringed ; the rest as on fore wing but without 

 antemedian line. Underside whitish-green, unmarked except for the 

 subterminal spots of fore wing, which are grey ; fringes as above. 



? rather larger, broader-winged, the fore wing very little bent at 

 E 3 , the red-brown markings lighter and brighter, those at tornus of 

 fore-wing and apex of hind wing considerably extended ; hind tibia 

 with all spurs present. 



Central Ceram : Manusela, 6,000 feet, x-xii, 19, type $ and 

 three ? ? . 



Nearest gibbosa Prout, cellspots larger, red, markings stronger, 

 red-mixed, white costa not underlined with red except at extreme 

 base, tornal blotch subobsolete above as well as beneath, 2 much 

 less eccentric in shape. 



