34 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000-7000 ft., January 1911 

 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



Rather recalls basichlora Warr. {Nov. Zool. vi. 340) and chlorophora Swinh. 

 {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. 295), but without the green base aud with the distal 

 edge of the dark area forming a more regular curve. 



Sterrhochaeta gen. nov. 



Face sloping, rough-scaled or with projecting tuft below. Palpus long, strong, 

 second joint rough, triangularly scaled, third joint smooth, rather small. Antenna, 

 iii both sexes simple. Hiudtibia with all spurs. Thorax often with long, low, 

 narrow crest (dorsal ridge). Forewing not broad, termen very slightly curved,, 

 oblique; underside with stiff hairs arising in posterior part,* and projecting more 

 or less over the cell ; cell less than one-half, DC incurved, posteriorly extremely 

 obliqne outwards ; areole double, SC 2 arising from stalk of SC 3-5 or at least 

 {argyrastrape) from apex of cell. Hindwing rather narrow, costa relatively long, 

 apex and termen rounded ; cell short, especially anteriorly, DC strongly biangulate, 

 R 2 nearer to R 3 than to R l . 



Type of the genus: Sterrhochaeta fulgurata (Warr.)= Chaetoiopha fulgurata 

 Warr. (Nov. Zool, xiii. 94). 



Near Chaetoiopha Warr. {Nov. Zool. vi. 41) both in structure and facies, but 

 distinguished by the double areole. The following of Warren's species also belong 

 here : reetilineata (Noo. Zool. v. 24G, xiii. 95), flexilinea (xiii. 94), pictipe?inis 

 (xiii. 95), ruptistriga (ibid.), splendens (ibid.), and semiradiata (xiv. 145). 



73. Sterrhochaeta reetilineata dilatans subsp. nov. 



S ?, 22-26 mm. On an average larger than name-typical reetilineata Warr., 

 from British New Guinea, the mediau band and distal shading rather darker and 

 greyer, but especially distinguished by having the pale distal boundary-line of the 

 median band slightly bent in the middle and broader — particularly its posterior 

 half in the <$, where it becomes whitish. Underside also rather darker, the line of 

 hindwing more bent. 



Goodenough Island, 2500-1000 ft., April and May 1915 (A. S. Meek). Type 

 in coll. Tring Mus. 



74. Sterrhochaeta chaea sp. nov. 



S , 24 mm. Head, thorax, legs and upperside of abdomen concolorous with 

 forewing, abdomen beneath with hindwing. Palpus just over twice as long as 

 diameter of eye. 



Forewing above deep, bright reddish ochreous, the markings white : first line 

 from one-sixth costa to one-fifth hindmargin, fairly straight, very slender and 

 interrupted (almost obsolete), but thicker and conspicuous in cell ; proximal 

 boundary line of median area from one-third costa, rather oblique inwards, very 

 slender and weak, in cell forming a rather thick, less oblique, conspicuous mark, 

 behind cell still slightly thicker, running vertically to hindmargin at one-fifth, 

 interrupted by SM 2 , then narrowing ; median area very slightly darkened, especially 

 at its edges ; distal boundary of this area from costa just proximally to two-thirds, 

 at first parallel with antemedian, but slightly more bent outwards or approaching 



* Probably at SM'-'; I have no material for dissection. 



