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R 2 , somewhat angled at R 3 , thence very slightly incurved, reaching hiudmargin 

 just beyond two-thirds ; faint at costa and between radials, otherwise conspicuous, 

 its distal half gradually widening in middle ; subterminal line very slender and 

 inconspicuous, only whitish in anterior part, where it is rather nearer to postmedian 

 line than to termen ; about R 1 it is somewhat curved outwards, but from this point 



it is only represented by some faintly grey shading. Hindwing much paler 



ochreous, darkening very slightly distally ; unmarked. 



Forewing beneath considerably paler than above, with only the feeblest 

 indication of the upperside markings ; hindwing beneath scarcely so pale as above ; 

 a darker, very slightly incurved, diffuse line from abdominal margin to R 3 just 

 beyond cell, here angled, becoming somewhat oblique inwards, but soon fading out ; 

 a weaker, but more complete, curved subterminal dark line. 



Goodenough Island, 2500-4000 ft., May 1913 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. 

 Tring Mus. 



Very near ruptistriga Warr., but without white on face, thorax and abdomen, 

 the lines rather less broken, posteriorly thicker and falling vertically (in that 

 species strongly obliquely) on hind margin. 



75. Sterrhochaeta argyrastrape sp. nov. 



?, 31 mm. Face fulvous, mixed with red. Palpus nearly three times 

 diameter of eye ; fulvous, the outer side (except the small third joint) strongly 

 mixed with red. Vertex mostly red, mixed with fulvous posteriorly. Antenna 

 pale yellowish. Thorax concolorous with forewing, metathorax with an elongate 

 silver spot. Abdomen narrowly pale at ends of segments and with a pale stripe on 

 side except towards anal end ; ovipositor prominent. 



Forewing fulvous, strongly shaded with red-brown, and with some fine black 

 irroration, which becomes strong as an edging to the silvery markings and a cloud 

 behind M and M 1 between the median and j)ostrnedian lines ; some not very 

 conspicuous silvery interneural dashes in proximal half of wing ; lines silver- white, 

 extremely tortuous and angular, in places rather thick, bat irregular, interrupted 

 with black in crossing some of the veins ; antemedian extremely angled outward 

 anteriorly ; median arising from a comma-shaped spot, angled outward at M, 

 strongly oblique iuward at hindmargin ; postmedian strongly zigzag iii its middle 

 (first outward, then inward) ; subterminal very acutely dentate, thick between 

 SC 5 and R l ; a silvery comma at apex ; fringe proximally unmarked, distally 



clear fulvous with blackish spots. Hindwing much paler fulvous, almost 



unmarked. 



Forewing beneath with the principal silvery markings indicated ; hindwing 

 frosted with shiny pale-bluish scales, a dark cell-spot and two dark transverse lines 

 in distal part. 



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

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



Larger, etc., than S. fulgurata Warr. {Nov. Zool. xiii. 94), lines of forewing far 

 more irregular. 



76. Spectrobasis impectinata sp. nov. 



<$ ? , 26-31 mm. Face olivaceous. Palpus ochreous on innerside and at 

 ends of joints, otherwise much mixed with blackish. Vertex blackish in middle, 

 narrowly ochreous at each side. Antennal shaft heavily irrorated with black, 



