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with apex slightly pointed, termen smooth, rather oblique, not very long ; fovea 

 wanting ; cell more than one-half, DC 3 in S deeply inangled ; SC 1 anastomosing 

 slightly or connected with C, SC 2 from stalk of SC 3-5 , anastomosing at a point or 

 very shortly with SC 1 and then with SC 3-1 , R 2 from before middle of DC, M 1 remote 

 from R 3 . Hindwing with costa slightly arched, termen smooth, convex, tonins 

 well expressed ; cell about one-half, DC 3 oblique ; C rather shortly approximated 

 to cell near base, rapidly diverging, SC 3 separate, R 2 wanting, M 1 widely separate. 



Type of the genus : Eurychoria oenoptila sp. nov. 



Near the South American Oenoptila Warr. ; differing in position of R 2 and in 

 the <$ DC and subcostal venation, which is sometimes very remarkable, the first 

 areole formed by the subcostal anastomoses being very broad ; the stalk of SC 2-5 

 diverges very sharply from R 1 and the distal areole is narrow. 



85. Eurychoria oenoptila sp. nov. 



Face dark red. Vertex and clavola snow-white ; occiput deep red. Collar 

 reddish. Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings; anal tuft lighter. 



Forewing reddish ochreons, more or less irrorated (in the type densely and 

 almost uniformly thronghont) with deeper, more purplish red ; lines still darker, 

 but very indistinct, their position made prominent by small white dots on the veins; 

 their obverse sides minutely accompanied by blackish dots; antemedian at about 

 5 mm., gently curved ; postmedian within 4 mm. of termen (thus nearer thereto 

 than in vulpina Warr., Nov. Zool. vs.. 369, in which it is 5 mm. from termen), very 

 slightly curved basevvards at costa and near bindmargin ; a small black discal dot, 

 closely followed by a nearly straight, not conspicuous median shade, which reaches 

 hindmargin near the postmedian. Hindioing without the antemedian line. 



Underside dull ochreons, with coarse but not very strong grey dots and 

 strigulae, discal dots present, lines and median shade weakly reproduced, without 

 white dots. Very variable ; the following are the most noteworthy aberrations : 



ab. sticticata nov. Each wing with one or two bright clear ochreons spots 

 between R 3 and M 1 ; when only one is present it is proximal to the postmedian 

 line; the second, when present, is distal thereto. 



ab. variegata nov. Basal area (only for a very short distance on hindwing) 



and a large patch from median shade nearly to termen and from SC 5 to M 2 bright 



clear ochreous, cut longitudinally by a streak of reddish at R 2 aud transversely 



by a lunulate-dentate blackish postmedian line (less deeply dentate than that of 



ßavirupta Warr.) 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, about 139° E. longitude, 5000- 

 7000 ft., February 1911 (A. S. Meek). 4 S <$, 6 ? ? , in coll. Tring Mus. 



The peculiarities of the 3 venation are in this species exaggerated : — SC of 

 forewing bends away from C distally, the proximal areole being therefore very 

 broad and four-sided ; SC 2 is connate or only very shortly stalked with SC 3-8 , and 

 arises steeply. 



86. Eurychoria flavirupta (Warr.) 



Oenoptila ßavirupta Warr., Nov. Zool. x. 402 (1903). 



This was described from a ? , from Aroa River, British New Guinea. I have 

 before me also a cf from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New 

 Guinea, and a <S and two ? ? from Goodenough Island ; similar to vulpina Warr., 



