472 Geometridae from Dutch New Guinea and Mefor Island 



ffavimedia more than half the width is within the cell), and running 

 to distal instead of to hindmargin, its posterior boundary being at 

 submedian fold. 



Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, December, 1920, to January, 1921, 

 type $ , allotype and paratype ? ; November, 1920, paratype $ ; 

 Menoo Eiver, 3,500-5,000 feet, November-December, 1920, one S ; 

 December, 1920 to January, 1921, two $ $ ; also one S from the same 

 district without exact data. 



That this cannot be a less rufescent form, with differently shaped 

 band, of scordylodes Joicey and Talb. (of which the type remains 

 unique) is shown by the fact that the latter has the terminal joint of 

 the palpus longer. 



26. Craspedosis effusa sp. nov. (pi. XXIII, fig. 8). 

 ? , 42 mm. 



Face grey, narrowly whiter above. Vertex grey, paler between the 

 antennae. Thorax and abdomen above dark-grey, beneath (with legs) 

 rather paler ; in places shot with blue ; tip of abdomen bright ochreous. 



Fore wing moderately broad, termen rather strongly oblique ; black- 

 grey with a slaty tinge, in some lights with fairly strong blue reflections ; 

 a broad (ca. 6 mm.) white band from SC to hindmargin, its proximal 

 edge about 4 mm. from base anteriorly, about 5 posteriorly, its distal edge 

 fairly straight except behind SM 2 (where it curves inward) traversing 

 DC 2 " 3 ; fringe paler grey. Hind wing with the blue gloss rather 

 stronger ; the white band of fore wing continued at costal margin only 

 about to E 1 but becoming progressively more dusted with the ground- 

 colour ; fringe white. 



Underside similar. 



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

 February, 1921. 



The white band of the fore wing, even more markedly than in semi- 

 lugens Warr., swinhoei Eoths., etc., shades into the ground-colour proxi- 

 mally and distally through a narrow area of irroration ; in this respect 

 a contrast to the larger, blacker affinis Eoths., from which it further 

 differs in the unicolorous dorsum of abdomen and the white costal 

 band and fringe of hind wing. 



