Geometridae from Dutch New Guinea and Mefor Island 465 



The first-known species to combine the colour and niaculation of 

 coeridea, glauca, etc., with the dorsal line of punctulata leucogramma 

 or the gig as group. 



15. Prasinocyma tryphera sp. nov. (pi. XXIV, fig. 7). 

 3 , 29—30 mm. 



Face green. Palpus nearly li; green, beneath white. Vertex and 

 antennal shaft white; pectination 4 or 5. Occiput green. Thorax 

 and abdomen green above, white beneath. Legs mostly white ; fore 

 coxa green ; hind tibia with moderate white hair-pencil. 



Fore wing with costa arched distally, apex moderate, termen 

 straight; SC 1 free (type), or anastomosing slightly with C, R 1 connate 

 or slightly stalked, M 1 not stalked ; delicate blue-green as in delicata 

 Warr., or punctulata Warr. ; costal edge buff, mixed with grey; cell-dot 

 minute, black ; lines whiter than ground colour, but almost obsolete, 

 formed and placed nearly as in punctulata; terminal black dots very 

 minute and inconspicuous, easily overlooked ; fringe white, tinged with 

 cream-colour. Hind wing moderately ample, very feebly bent at R 3 ; 

 R l and M 1 both stalked; first line wanting (?), the rest as on fore wing. 



Both wings beneath green, the fore wing in posterior half and 

 a great part of the hind wing proximally becoming whiter. 



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

 November-December, 1920, and (type) December, 1920 to January, 1921, 

 two $ $ . 



16. Prasinocyma annexa sp. nov. (pi. XXIV, fig. 11). 

 $ ? , 38—40 mm. 



Face green. Palpus in $ If, in ? 2|, third joint elongate in both 

 sexes, especially in the ? ; second joint green above, white beneath ; 

 third joint red-brown. Vertex white, occiput green. Antenna! shaft 

 white, branches green, at least at extremities. Thorax and abdomen 

 green above, white beneath. The fore leg tinged with red-brown above, 

 especially on femur ; hind tibia of $ with rather strong hair-pencil. 



Wings with the shape, colour and markings almost as in vestigiata 

 Warr., the dots on the veins stronger, especially on SM 2 of the fore 

 wing, where the enlargement of the postmedian even begins to recall 

 that of simplex, dioscorodes, marina, and glauca. 



Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland Mountains, November- 

 31 



