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55. Heteroctenis flavimedia sp. nov. 



? , 28 mm. Face and palpus dull, pale pink, the face paler in the middle. 

 Crown red-brown, with a narrow whitish fillet between the antennae. Antennal 

 shaft white on inner side, mostly red-brown on outer ; pectinations long, biseriate. 

 Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Foreioing with termen slightly bent at M 1 ; ground-colour formed of a mixture 

 of ferruginous, lilac-grey and yellow scales, the yellow almost entirely wanting 

 along costal margin to about two-thirds ; an irregular yellow postdiscal patch, 

 mostly over 2 mm. broad, but constricted and slightly dusted with ferruginous 

 in middle, reaching R 1 anteriorly and SM 2 posteriorly ; ground-colour slightly more 

 purplish distally to this patch than proximally ; a yellow distal border of about 

 1*5 mm. width, not sharply defined proximally, being here dusted with ferruginous ; 



fringe yellow. Hindwing with termen waved, fairly straight from apex to R 3 



and from tornus to M 1 , bent at these veins ; nearly as forewing, costal margin pale, 

 ground-colour projecting almost to termen at the gibbosity of R'-M 1 . 



Underside paler, the ground-colour uniform vinaceous, not dusted. 



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

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



As ab. perspersa nov., I describe a superficially very different form in which 

 the yellow ground-colour is almost uniformly dotted and strigulated with liver- 

 brown, leaving only a very small, ill-defined clear patch just beyond the disco- 

 cellulars and on the hindwing also just within the cell; both wings with a 

 conspicuous dark cell-spot; costal region of forewing as in the name-type. 



56. Anisodes flavissima ab. ophthalmicata ab. nov. 



Together with typical flavissima Warr. (Nov. Zool. xiv. 143) in both sexes, 

 there occurs at Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea (January — February 1911, A. S. 

 Meek), also in both sexes, an aberration for which I propose the above name, 

 characterised by having on each wing a large black, pale-centred, discal ocellus, 

 visible also, though less strong, on the underside. 



Warren founded the species on a ? and queried the genus. It is a trae 

 " Perixera" in sens. Warr., i.e. an Anisodes of the Old-World section — <$ hind- 

 leg simple, long, with terminal spurs only. In Perixera Meyr. ( = Pkrissosceles 

 Warr.) the c? hindfemur is tufted. 



Subfam. LARENTIINAE. 



57. Asthena argyrorrhytes sp. nov. 



(?, 21 mm. Closely similar to argentipuncta AVarr. (Nov. Zool. xiii. 107), 

 possibly a local form of it, rather smaller, but the abdomen is relatively shorter, 

 the forewiug appears slightly narrower, its costal margin rather more arched in 

 distal part, the termen of hindwing less gibbous. The lines and spots are more 

 slender, particularly the antemedian and postmedian, the brown surroundings of the 

 silver slighter, but the silver colour itself transversely elongate, so as almost (in 

 places quite) to unite into strongly sinuous transverse lines ; the subapical spot of 

 the forewing is similarly elongate into a fine short line, reaching to SC 5 and with 

 minute broken continuations (of which argentipuncta shows no trace) nearly to R 3 . 

 Size of subditaria Warr. (loc. cit.), which has about the same shaped forewing 



