Geometridae from Dutch New Guinea and Mefor Island 459 



crossing R 2 at termen ; coarse black irroration, in part confluent, leaving 

 free the reverse edges of the antemedian and postmedian lines and 

 some irregular subterminal patches ; lines black, thickened at costa ; 

 antemedian excurved in and again behind cell ; median strong costally, 

 then merged in a narrow discal ocellus ; postmedian forming short thick 

 teeth outward, projecting distally to R 3 , strongly retracted behind M l ; 

 some black proximal edging to the apical patch (especially in the ? ) ; a 

 black subterminal shade (variable in development) posteriorly ; ter- 

 minal line subcrenulate, on the white patch olivaceous with black 

 dots, posteriorly black ; fringe anteriorly whitish with olivaceous spots, 

 posteriorly green with black spots. Hind wing in 3 heavily mixed 

 with black as far as the dentate postmedian line, in ? concolorous 

 with fore wing ; abdominal fringe partly orange ; an outwardly dentate, 

 more or less interrupted, subterminal black shade ; terminal line and 

 fringe-spots black. 



Underside deep blue-purple, in the ? becoming black distally ; fore 

 wing with cream-white apical patch, a large dark cell-spot, a pale spot 

 immediately beyond this, and a small subcostal one just beyond the 

 postmedian line or band, which is broad but not distinct anteriorly, 

 narrow and evanescent posteriorly ; hind wing with an extended cream- 

 white costal patch and some slighter and more variable ones (in the 

 ? prominent) at termen behind SC and near hind margin behind the 

 position of the postmedian line ; a more or less extended orange spot at 

 hindmargin, extending on to the fringe. 



Nomnagihe, 25 miles south of Wangaar, 2,000 feet, January- 

 February, 1921, twenty 3 3 , one ? . 



A very fine species, akin to purpurissa Warr. 



6. Hypodoxa pallida Joicey and Talb. 



The hitherto unknown ? is similar to the 3 but larger (ca. 

 48 mm.), the median area of the fore wing mixed with glaucous- 

 whitish, the area between postmedian and subterminal lines on the 

 hind half of the fore wing and nearly throughout hind wing mixed 

 with violaceous-grey. Hind wing beneath with dark discal dash. 

 Terminal joint of palpus longer than second joint. 



Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland Mountains, 6,000 feet, 

 November-December, 1920, ? , allotype ; Nomnagihe, 25 miles south 

 of Wangaar, 2,000 feet, January-February, 1921, three ? ? , paratypes. 



