6 6 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



137. Paralcis polycnema sp. nov. 



8 ¥ , 43-45 mm. Face light brown. Palpus fuscous on outer side, except the 

 minute third joint. Antenna rather long, light brown, in c? lamellate, the fascicles 

 of cilia sessile, a little longer than diameter of shaft. Vertex light brown. Collar 

 and thorax above mixed with warmer brown. Abdomen again pale ; not hairy 

 beneath. Hindtibia in S not dilated. 



Forewing rather elongate ; fovea small ; SO 1-2 coincident ; very pale wood- 

 brown, with irregular, dense, in places warm brown irroration ; markings fuscous ; 

 traces of one or two interrupted dark lines near base ; antemedian line from beyond 

 one-fourth costa, here rather thick ; forming a deep outward curve or blunt angle 

 in cell, a shaip> angle inwards on M, less strong curves and bends posteriorly ; a 

 large, vague, ocellated cell-mark, longer than broad ; distal part of median area 

 clouded with brown and fuscous, the clouding crossing the postmedian line in the 

 anterior part ; postmedian line strongly lunulate-dentate, the lunules pointing 

 proximally, between the veins ; from costa beyond two-thirds, slightly approaching 

 the termen at E 1 , receding slightly after M 1 , the lnnnle between M 3 and SM 2 the 

 deepest ; subterminal line whitish, lunulate-dentate, thickened between SC 5 and 

 Pi 1 , somewhat interrupted in posterior half, some slight accompanying cloudings 



except at apex ; terminal interneural dark spots not very strong. Hindwing 



with termen gently crenulate ; much paler, the dusting almost wanting except 

 towards abdominal margin ; a grey discal dot ; a postmedian line from abdominal 

 margin about to R 3 , very feeble or obsolete in anterior half; its teeth and lunules 

 much shorter than on forewing. 



Poth wings beneath irrorated with brown, the posterior part of forewing 

 least so ; costal region of forewing slightly infuscated ; forewing with rather 

 large, hindwing with moderate dark cell-spot ; a common, finely crenulate post- 

 median line. 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, January 1911 (A. S. Meek). 

 Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



The rather long antenna and wings suggest a transition to Paradromulia^ 

 which is scarcely a tenable genus. 



138. Paralcis dochmioscia sp. nov. 



S, 34 mm. Head and body concolorous with wings; upper half of face and 

 outer side of palpus deep fuscous, abdomen with dark dorsal belts anteriorly. 

 Antennal ciliation longer than diameter of shaft. 



Forewing with termen nearly smooth ; SC 1-2 coincident ; buff, more or less 

 clouded, except in the posterior part of the areas between antemedian and sub- 

 terminal lines, with red-brown and with a few dark fuscous scales ; discal dot 

 pale, feebly indicated by a ring of red-brown scales encircling it ; lines dark 

 fuscous, commencing in small costal spots at one-third, one-half and two-thirds ; 

 antemedian fine, bent subcostally, then strongly oblique inward and waved ; 

 median oblique outward to R 1 but nearly obsolete, here bent, meeting the post- 

 median about R 3 , then gradually separating again and running, oblique and 

 somewhat waved, to two-fifths hindmargiu ; postmedian oblique outward and 

 ill-defined to behind E 1 , then strongly bent, from E 3 tolerably direct, reaching 

 hindmargiu at middle; the median line from hindmargiu to the junction and the 



