44 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



95. Syntaracta Polynesia sp. nov. 



S, 34 mm. ; ?, 38 mm. Face ochreous, with a reddish band (sometimes inter- 

 rupted) below middle. Palpus ochreous, each joint with a reddish spot or patch 

 on the outer side, near the base. Antenna in c? with rather short pectinations. 

 Crown ochreous, posteriorly mixed with red. Ends of patagia red, marked with 

 black. Metathorax and abdomen with paired black dorsal spots, those of abdomen 

 confluent, on first and second segment united into a large patch. 



Forewing light bright ochreous, in c? sparsely, in ? more strongly irrorated 

 with deep fulvous ; costal margin strongly (distally more minutely) spotted with 

 black ; a conspicuous black spot on SC near base ; lines thick, deep fnlvous ; 

 antemedian at 4 mm., excurved in cell and in submedian area, marked on veins 

 with black dots proximally ; cell-dot rather large, black ; postmedian line 5 or 

 6 mm. from terrnen, nearly straight, rather ill-defined proximally, with triangular 

 projection between R 3 and M 1 , very slightly incurved posteriorly, marked distally by 

 some black spots, especially between R 3 and M 1 and at hindmargin ; subterminal 

 line indicated by some ill-defined fulvous proximal shading, on which stand con- 

 fluent pairs of black spots at R\ R'-M 1 (very large) and hindmargin, the two 

 former pairs accompanied (distally to the subterminal) by smaller pairs ; terminal 



dots black, placed on ends of veins. Hindwing with the lines continued, the 



black dots and spots much slighter, the only large ones being the two confluent 

 subterminal pairs at R 3 . 



Under-surface similar, rather paler. 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, February 1911, 2^,2 ? ?. 



96. Nadagara tractata sp. nov. 



S, 30 mm. Face ferruginous, at edges whitish. Palpus grey, mixed with 

 ferruginous, tip whitish, first and second joints below, except at extremities, whitish. 

 Vertex and antenna ferruginous, clavola whitish. Collar and front of thorax 

 ferruginous. Thorax and abdomen otherwise pale grey, dorsally with a lilacine 

 tinge. 



Forewing pale lilacine grey, along costal edge and veins with a browner tinge, 

 throughout with sparse dark-grey irroration ; first line obsolete ; discal dot black ; 

 a not very distinct, very slightly curved light-brown postmedian line midway 

 between this and termen, accentuated by black or blackish dots on its distal edge ; 

 terminal line black, very fine except between apex and SC 5 , slightly interrupted at 

 the veins, accompanied proximally by a very narrow ferruginous shade (line); 

 fringe grey, with a whitish line at base and with slight dark spots opposite the 



veins. Hindiving similar, without discal dot ; postmedian line straight, scarcely 



beyond middle. 



Forewing beneath dirty whitish, strongly shaded with light-brown except at 

 hindmargin and distally to postmedian line ; nearly throughout marked with coarse 

 grey strigulae ; discal mark strong, elongate ; postmedian line itself obsolete, the 

 dots distally to it strong ; a blackish-grey apical shade and slighter tornal one. 

 Hindwing similar, with much less brown suffusion, the dark apical shade slightly 

 connected with the tornal by vague submarginal shading. 



Rook Island, July 1913 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



Near intractata Walk. {List Lep. Ins. xxiv. 1097), especially in colour; 



