STICTOPTEEA. 169 



black, the iuterspaces hyaline white below and just be}-ond the cell ; 

 cilia with a fine white line at base ; the underside rather paler. 



Hah. Bk. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 1 d" type. Eay. 

 36 millim. 



6399. Stictoptera all)ipiincta,n. sp. (Plate CLXXYIII. fig. 11.) 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral surface brownish 

 white. Eore wing black-brown irrorated with white, the basal 

 area, costal area towards apex, and a subterminal patch between 

 veins 6 and 4 red-brown ; antemedial line hardly traceable except 

 on inner area, waved ; claviform and orbicular slightly defined by 

 black and white scales on outer edge only ; reniform faintly defined 

 by a few white scales ; medial line indistinct, black, somewhat 

 oblique and very slightly waved ; postmedial line double, black 

 filled in by small white lunules except towards costa, waved, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 small white spots with slight black sti'eaks before and beyond them 

 below costa, obsolescent on the reddish patch below vein 6, then 

 defined on inner side by black spots with a prominent white spot 

 before the spot in submedian interspace ; a series of black striae 

 just before termen defined on inner side by slight white lunules ; 

 a series of white points at the extremities of the veins. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the interspaces below and just beyond the cell semi- 

 hyaline white ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base ; the underside 

 with dark medial and postmedial strias from costa. 



Ab. 1. Vertex of head reddish ochreous, pro- and mel;athorax 

 with ochreous bars ; fore wing not irrorated with white and 

 without the red-brown on basal area, the white markings replaced 

 by grey except the white spot before postmedial line. 



5 . Pore wing fuscous black to the medial line which is defined 

 on outer side by whitish, the white spot before subterminal line 

 indistinct. 



Hab. Bb. N. Gqtnea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 J type, Ekeikei 

 (Pratt), 1 c? , 1 ? . J^A'p- 46 millim. 



6400. Stictoptera microthyris, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 12.) 



c? . Head and tegulce black-brown slightly mixed with reddish 

 ochreous ; thorax reddish ochreous with some dark brown scales ; 

 abdomen fuscous with some greyish ochreous at base, the ventral 

 surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with dark 

 brown, the basal costal area reddish ochreous ; an ochreous fascia in 

 and below end of cell and a band from beyond upper angle of cell 

 angled at vein 5, then oblique to inner margin near base and giving off 

 a diffused reddish ochreous fascia to termen from its angle ; ante- 

 medial line hardly traceable, slightly angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at 



