Geometridae from Dutch New Guinea and Mefor Island 471 



24. Craspedosis iniquisecta sp. nov. (pi. XXIII, fig. 3). 

 ? , 48 mm. 



Head black, the face and vertex tinged with blue. A very small 

 tuft at lower extremity of face. Antennal ciliation approaching 1. 

 Thorax blue-black, above mixed with white ; tips of patagia white. 

 Abdomen black, with light-orange belts, which ventrally suffuse almost 

 the entire surface. Legs black-grey, the tarsi paler, tinged with 

 orange-brown. 



Fore wing with fovea strong, white ; costal margin black ; a black 

 distal border of about 4 mm. width, shading into blue-grey on meeting 

 the ground-colour ; an extended blue-black area (irregularly irrorated 

 with white) from base of inner margin to beyond extremity of cell, 

 connected with distal border by streaks along SC 5 (confluent with the 

 black costal border), B 3 and M 1 ; blue-grey teeth from the black distal 

 border projecting proximad on E 1 , M 2 and SM 2 . Hind wing white > 

 costal margin blue-grey, distal border black ; a blue-grey extension 

 from the costal border, running proximal to the distal border as far as 

 radial fold and resumed between M 2 and tornus ; a large sugar-loaf- 

 shaped intermediate projection (from radial fold to median interspace), 

 just entering posterior corner of cell. 



Underside similar, the blue-black parts darker. 



Weyland Mountains, Dewaro Village, 3,500 feet, June, 1920 (C, F. 

 and J. Pratt) type; Wai Sai Eiver, 1,000 feet, June, 1920, paratype. 



$ . Quite similar, such minute deviations as can be observed in the 

 markings being obviously individual, not sexual. Wings very slightly 

 narrower, antennal ciliation fully 1. 



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

 1921, allotype, received subsequently to the preparation of the above 

 description. 



25. Craspedosis flavidistata sp. nov. (pi. XXIII, fig. 4). 

 ? , 37—41 mm. 



Close to flavimedia Warr., of which it might even prove a subspecies. 



Fore wing with an appreciable admixture of reddish-brown in the 

 black ground-colour, beginning to approach scordylodes Joicey and 

 Talb. ; the yellow band, which varies slightly in width (from 3'5 — 

 4" 5 mm., on an average narrower than in flavimedia), more distally 

 placed — about three times as wide outside the cell as within it (in 



