Geometridae from Dutch New Guinea and Mefor Island 461 



9. Anisozyga extravagans sp. nov. (pi. XXIV, fig. 2). 

 $ , 37—40 mm. 



Face green, narrowly pale below. Palpus over 1^, terminal joint 

 moderately elongate ; light-brown, paler beneath, mixed with some 

 green scales above. Vertex mixed w T ith brown and (more sparingly) 

 with green. Antennal pectinations short (about 1). Thorax and 

 abdomen light buff, the patagia, tegulae, and first segments of abdomen 

 dorsally green, the abdomen further with some dark-brown dorsal 

 irroration, some green laterally and just before anal tuft ; pencil beneath 

 thorax green. Legs pale, the fore leg heavily spotted with blackish. 



Fore wing with termen only weakly crenulate ; grass-green, about 

 as in beatrix Prout ; costal margin pale ochraceous-buff, tinged 

 (especially at extreme edge) with rufous and sprinkled with blackish 

 scales ; markings light-buff, antemedian line wavy, obsolescent except 

 in cell; a small triangular patch at end of cell ; an apical patch 6 mm. 

 long, whiter at its proximal and distal edges, slightly dotted or spotted 

 with green and blackish in middle, its proximal edge somewhat curved 

 and with slight indentations on veins, its posterior edge straight, 

 midway between E 1 and E 2 ; a smaller patch between hindmargin and 

 fold, about 5 mm. long, terminating at tornus, edged anteriorly by some 

 darker and redder scales ; small pale dots at vein-ends ; fringe mixed 

 with green. Hind wing with costal margin and an extremely large sub- 

 rotundate apical blotch pale, the latter occupying most of the wing (its 

 diameter about 9 mm.), edged proximally and posteriorly with darker 

 and redder scales, sparsely sprinkled nearly throughout with dark scales ; 

 termen with some black interneural dots. 



Underside very pale watery green ; fore wing with the subtornal 

 patch partly blackish, the rest nearly as above ; hind wing with the 

 large blotch blackish, except at termen. 



? rather larger, palpus just over 2, the terminal joint being much 

 longer than in the $ . Fore wing with the pale blotches larger, the 

 apical reaching to between E 3 and M l ; in addition, a basal patch 

 3'5mm. in length. Hind wing with the large blotch as in the $ ; in 

 addition, a small tornal blotch. Fore wing beneath with the dark 

 tornal patch enlarged, narrowly confluent with an additional (sub- 

 terminal) dark patch between the radials. 



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

 February, 1921, five $ $ , one ? . 



Between veniplaga Warr. and beatrix Prout. 



