288 New Geometridae from Central Ceram 



16. Scopula montivaga sp. nov. 

 $ . 35 mm. 



Face and palpus black, narrowly pale below. Head and body very 

 pale brown, above irrorated (excepting the vertex and tegulae) with 

 black ; collar browner. Antenna with rudimentary pectinations (not 

 as long as diameter of shaft), bearing long fascicles of fine cilia. Fore 

 and middle legs blackened on inner side; hind tibia dilated, with a 

 strong whitish hair-pencil from femoro-tibial joint, tarsus a little 

 shorter, but not greatly abbreviated. 



Fore wing with apex moderate, termen oblique, very slightly curved, 

 almost smooth ; very pale brown, with fine but rather strong black 

 irroration ; celldot sharply black ; lines warmer-brown, the antemedian 

 and postmedian very fine, but accentuated by black veindots, the median 

 shade thicker, clearer, just beyond the celldot, but projecting, some slight 

 suffusion around this; antemedian angled outward in cell ; postmedian 

 nearer to termen than to celldot, rather oblique outward from costa to 

 B 1 , gently incurved between radials and at fold, the black dots placed 

 at its distal side and slightly elongate ; termen with black interneural 

 dots ; fringe with smaller dots opposite the veins. Hind wing with 

 termen slightly waved, feebly bent at B 3 ; similar to fore wing but with 

 antemedian line wanting ; median and postmedian rather more proximal, 

 the former — by a very slight inward curve — preceding the celldot. 



Underside with the ground colour whiter, the irroration in part 

 (especially on hind wing) feeble or obsolete, but with the fore wing as 

 far as to the median shade suffused with smoke-colour (at base of costa 

 black) ; antemedian wanting ; median on fore wing smoky, on hind wing 

 nearly obsolete ; postmedian on both wings smoky, with black veindots 

 as above ; termen and fringe as above. 



Central Ceram : Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919. 



Perhaps related to sordida Warr. (Nov. Zool.,. ii, 93), but with the 

 pectinations much shorter, the bind tibia shorter, the radial cloudings 

 wanting, &c. 



LABENTIINAE. 



17. Gonanticlea subcaesia Warr. neutralis subsp. nov. 



5 . 



Hind wing and underside of the nondescript purple-grey hue of that 

 of sublustris or of the African meridionata Walk., instead of the deeper 

 blue-grey colouring of name-typical subcaesia from Dutch and British 

 New Guinea 



