36 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



merely serrate, with slender paired fascicles of cilia. Thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous, mixed with blackish ; tegnlae green. 



Forewing pale ochreous, clouded nearly all over with greyish fnscous ; costal 

 edge blackened at base and in irregular elongate spots farther out, otherwise 

 remaining of the ground-colour, which also shows very slightly as a bent post- 

 median line and the costal commencement of a dentate subterminal, followed by a 

 subapical costal patch ; a light green anterior patch close to base, continued for a 

 little way as a subcostal streak ; a small black cell-spot ; fringe at base rufescent 

 or fuscous, throughout heavily dark-chequered.— — -Hindwing still more uniformly 

 clouded, only with scarcely noticeably paler band in middle and again at termen ; 

 fringe chequered, sometimes infuscated almost throughout. 



Forewing beneath smoky, darkening near costa; terminal region rufous or 

 fuscous ; costal margin at base blackish, then with a broad, narrowing ochreous 

 patch, distally rufous, the veins sometimes remaining ochreous ; an oblique whitish 

 streak from apex and a shorter one from costa near it (both almost obliterated in 

 dark examples by fuscous clouding). Hindwing beneath predominantly rufous 

 mixed with blackish fuscous ; an ill-defined pale antemedian band, at least in 

 inner-marginal region ; the beginning of a similar postmedian band at inner margin ; 

 a much interrupted pale subterminal line, chiefly indicated as anterior spots and a 

 sinuous streak from tornus. 



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

 February 1911 (A. S. Meek). Type (February) in coll. Tring Mus. 



Forms a new section of the genus, all the hitherto known species {Nov. Zool. 

 xiii., xiv.) having strongly pectinate S antennae ; otherwise curiously similar 

 to maligna Warr. (xiv. 149; for "2 ? ? " read u % $$ ")• 



77. Anapalta aurifera circumfumata subsp. nov. 



? , 49 mm. Larger than aurifera aurifera Warr. {Nov. Zool. x. 373), further 

 distinguished as follows : 



Forewing with the green markings in central fascia reduced to a longitudinal 

 streak on M and a single, much interrupted transverse line ; fuscous blotches in 



distal area larger, a strong one occupying more of radial area. Hindwing with 



costa narrowly, apex more broadly and most of cell infuscated. Forewing beneath 



with yellow much reduced, but with a small pale yellowish spot at apex and 

 another at termen between R 3 and M 1 ; hindwing with broad fuscous distal border 

 and a curved postmedian series of fuscous vein-dots. 



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

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



78. Xanthorhoe succerasina sp. nov, 



? , 48 mm. Intermediate between X cerasina Warr. {Nov. Zool. xiii. 104, 

 t. 10, f. 5) and interrupta Warr. {loc. cit. 105, f. 10). Larger than either. 



Forewing with median band of more uniform breadth throughout, without the 

 strong subcostal indentation proximally of cerasina or the distal protuberance of 

 interrupta and scarcely narrowed posteriorly to M 2 ; the space distally to this band 

 more broadly and more decidedly pale than in interrupta, less broadly than in 

 cerasina, with a slight pink tinge ; a dentate subterminal line much better developed 



than in either of the allies. Hindwing also intermediate, all the four outer lines 



distinct at abdominal margin, the proximal pair of them traceable across wing. 



