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edge of the ground-colour gradually encroaching so as to make the wing appear 



more acute than is really the case ; fringe yellow. Hindwing with apex squared, 



termeu convex, abdominal margin fairly long ; colour as on forewing or slightly 

 deeper ; discal mark minute, whitish ; line of forewing continued, about median, 

 very slightly curved ; termen narrowly gold-yellow; fringe yellow. 



Underside duller, the forewing, except distally, slightly smoky ; markings 

 scarcely discernible ; termen and fringe as above, but paler. 



Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., October 

 —December 1910 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Triug Mus. 



51. Chrysocraspeda inforaiiplaga sp. no v. 



?,23 mm. Face pale yellow, mixed with liver-brown below. Palpus pale 

 yellow, mixed with liver-brown on outer side. Vertex and antennal shaft pale 

 yellow. Occiput and npperside of thorax and abdomen liver-brown, the abdomen 

 with a few yellow spots ; thorax and abdomen beneath, pale olive yellow. Forecoxa, 

 femur and tibia reddish above and on innerside. 



Forewing fairly broad, costa somewhat arched, apex moderate, termen bowed, 

 oblique (straighter near apex), tornus not sharp ; liver-brown, finely irrorated with 

 pale violet, strongly mixed with yellow along costal margin except at base ; an 

 interrupted yellow antemedian line from SC, forming a V-shaped angulation out- 

 ward at M, somewhat thickened at fold, reappearing as a spot on SM 3 at just 

 beyond one-third ; a very irregular yellow median band, reduced to partly confluent 

 yellow spots anteriorly and posteriorly, clear from about R 2 to SM 2 , its anterior 

 end throwing out projections anteriorly, proximally and distally, slightly encroached 

 upon by a cell-spot of the ground-colour ; its proximal side forming a strong, 

 rounded projection behind M 2 ; postmedian line parallel with and scarcely 2 mm. 

 from termen, represented merely by spots at SO 5 , between the radials and at 

 snbmedian fold, distal margin from apex to middle yellow with liver-coloured 

 terminal spots, posteriorly spotted with yellow ; fringe mostly yellow except at 



end of M 1 (damaged). Hindwing with termen strongly convex, especially about 



R 3 -M', slightly sinuous ; concolorous with forewing, the yellow patch fairly broad, 

 rather near base, reaching costa, containing in its middle the rather large cell-dot, 

 and with distal projections at R 3 and M 2 and narrow bar from M to abdominal 

 margin near base ; postmediau spots vaguely reproduced, in anterior part only ; 

 termen and fringe as on forewing. 



Underside similarly marked, much more washed-out. 



Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., 

 October — December 1910 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



52. Chrysocraspeda flavisparsa sp. nov. 



S, 22 mm. Face rosy, deepest at upper edge. Palpus rosy, paler beneath. 

 Crown rosy, spotted with yellow. Thorax and abdomen above rosy, mixed 

 (especially the middle segments of abdomen) with yellow ; beneath dirty olive- 

 yellow. Fore and middle legs pink on upperside. 



Forewing with costa markedly shouldered at base, then straight; termen 

 anteriorly almost straight and little oblique, becoming suddenly very oblique from 

 M 1 , tornus rounded ; rosy, tolerably evenly spotted and dotted (except along costa) 

 with yellow, the spots in places confluent but forming no definite pattern ; fringe 



