296 New Geometridae from Central Ceram 



27. Ctimene ocreata sp. nov. 



<? . 37 — 41 mm. ; 5 , 40 — 44 mm. 



Head, body and legs black ; tegulae orange. 



Fore wing banded, black and orange ; basal patch black, extremely 

 obliquely bounded, only 2 or 3 mm. wide at costa, 5 mm. or more at 

 hindmargin, sometimes narrowly joined along hindmargin to next 

 black band; succeeding band light orange, fading to whitish buff; a 

 broad (5 — 8 mm. variable) black band from beyond middle of costa to 

 tornus, its proximal edge somewhat sinuous, often indented at fold, or 

 sometimes behind SM 2 , its distal edge very gently excurved between 

 R 1 and M 1 , meeting terminal black line before M 2 ; a narrow or 

 moderate leg-and-foot-shaped orange subapical band, the sole of the 

 foot running close to termen from R 2 , the toe between M 1 and M 2 ; 

 termen and fringe black. Hind wing orange ; abdominal margin 

 broadly black ; termen narrowly black ; fringe black. 



Under side the same. 



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

 1919, eleven S $ , twenty-five 2 2 , including the type and allotype ; 

 3,000 feet, December, 1919, one 3 ; January to February, one <? , 

 two 2 2 . 



An aberration — represented by the <? from 3,000 feet, January to 

 February, 1920, and one 2 from Manusela — has an orange spot in the 

 middle of the black band (behind the base of R 3 ) . 



28. Abraxas monycliata Feld.* ceramensis subsp. nov. 



Abraxas albiquadrata Roths., Nov. Zool. 22, 217 (1915) (nee Warr.). 



$ 2 • 



Fore wing with some orange basal and subbasal spots, one of the 

 latter (behind base of cell) extending a little along SM 2 . Hind wing 

 with the white band reaching abdominal margin. Differs on the hind 

 wing from those specimens of monycliata arfaki Beth.-Bak. in which 

 the post-discal white band of fore wing is uninterrupted in retaining 

 the white subbasal band, or at least traces of it. 



Central Ceram, 3,000 feet, January to February, 1920, type $ and 

 two 2 2 . 



Felder's type was merely labelled " Moluccas " and may have come 

 from Celebes, but I am provisionally uniting it with albiquadrata from 

 the North Moluccas (though it is a very different aberration), which 

 has the abdominal margin of the hind wing black, &c. 



