NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 69 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, January and February 1911 

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



142. Eucharidema gorgo sp. nov. 



3 ¥ , 82-84 mm. Head and body concolorons with wings. Abdomen in g 

 with very strong, mostly light brownish, trifid anal tuft. 



Foreioing shaped as in the preceding species ; uniform purplish-black, with 

 strong gloss ; an oblique, slightly sinuous orange line from near costa at abont 

 6 mm. to near hindmargin at abont 7 mm., somewhat variable but never quite 



reaching the margins. Hindwing glossy dark grey proximal!}-, broadly blackish 



grey distally. 



Both wings beneath blackish, rather lighter (more blue-grey) towards base 

 and hindmargin ; forewing with a narrow orange band distally to the cell, not 

 reaching costa or hindmargin, in an aberration showing also as a fine line above, 

 sometimes on the contrary reduced to a mere narrow fragment, in the only ? before 

 me obsolete even beneath. 



Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, January and February 1911 

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



143. Eucharidema fractura sp. nov. 



8 , 46-47 mm. Head and body black-brown. 



Forewing black-brown, crossed by a white band; this arises close to costa 

 just beyond middle of wing, is here about 3 mm. in width, curves very slightly 

 inwards at first, is then almost straight and somewhat widened, its distal margin 

 suddenly curves inward behind M 3 so that its posterior extremity (bej'ond two- 

 thirds hindmargin) is only about 1 mm. broad ; an oblique white mark from tornus 

 nearly to the bend of the band at M 2 ; distal fringe concolorous with wing ; hind- 

 marginal fringe tinged with yellow at the end of the band. Hindwing black- 

 brown, in some lights with very slight tinge of purple ; a narrow yellow band, 

 about 3 mm. from termen, running from E, 3 to fold, tapering almost to a point 

 at latter. 



Underside almost identical, the white band of forewing tinged with yellowish 

 from hindmargin to across fold. 



Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., 

 February and March 1909. Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



Ctimene Dup. 



Ctimene Bsd., Faune Ent. Pacif. i. 202 (1832) (indescr.) ; Dup., Biet. Univ. Hist. Nat. iv. 445 



(1844). 

 Bursada Walk., List Lep. Ins. xxxi. 187 (1834). 

 Abraxides Auriv., Sv. AJcad. Handl. xix. (5) 165 (1882). 



Boisduval's name of Ctimene, for which characterisation was first supplied by 

 Dnponchel and later by Meyrick (Froc. Linn. Soc. New Sth. Wales (2) i. 241), has 

 otherwise lain dormant. I have not yet quite matched the type species, xanthomelas 

 Bsd., said to be from Port Praslin, New Ireland (New Mecklenburg), though 

 Boisduval himself mentions that this may be a mistake ; but I have before me a 

 very similar form from the Solomons and its generic position is absolutely secure, 



