IZ XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



very obliquely, meeting the broad apical patch at apex of cell, so that a much 

 reduced white area remains, roughly triangular in form. Border of hindwing 

 broader than in name-typical casta and separated by a grey shade from the white 

 ground. The <? has a small black anal tuft. 



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

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



151. Craspedosis cyanauges sp. nov. 



(?, 33 mm: ; ?, 40 mm. Head, body and legs black, the body above with 

 dark blue reflections. 



Wings black, with dark blue reflections. 



Forewing with an oblique white band from SO to across M 2 , about 2 mm. in 

 breadth, its anterior end slightly rounded, its sides otherwise scarcely convex, the 

 discocellulars midway between them, its posterior end slightly narrowed, a small 

 projection crossiag M 2 and reaching to the fold ; if continued, this band would reach 

 the hindmargin close to tornus. Hindwing unicolorous. 



Under-surface the same. 



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

 and a ? in coll. Tring Mns. Also a short series from Angabunga River, British 

 New Guinea, misidentified by Warren as laticlava Warr. {Nov. Zool. x. 387), which 

 is much larger, duller, the band longer, etc. 



Related to miranda Warr. {Nov. Zool. xiv. 170) and purpurea Warr. (loc. cit.), 

 but smaller (especially the S) and with the band shorter, narrower, and less 

 rounded distally than in the former, much broader than in the latter, which, 

 moreover (in spite of its name), has the reflections brighter, of a purer, less 

 purplish blue. 



152. Mniocera cinerescens niphospila subsp. nov. 



Differs from name-typical cinerescens Butl. {Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, 

 p. 162), from New Ireland, in that the hindwing, as well as the forewing, shows 

 a white postmedian spot ; this is occasionally more restricted than on forewing, 

 scarcely crossing R 3 anteriorly, but is always conspicuous. 



Rook Island, August 1913 (A. S. Meek). Both sexes in coll. Tring Mus. 



I have before me an example of cinerescens cinerescens from " New Britain " 

 (Neupommern), without more exact locality, and it is not impossible that the 

 Rook Island form may be found to occur there as an aberration. I strongly suspect 

 that Craspedosis niverupta Bastelb. (Berl. Ent. Zeit. Hi. 60) is a synonym (or 

 perhaps ab.) of cinerescens cinerescens, though I cannot understand the " ochre- 

 yellow " hindmargin of forewing or the yellowish spot on the antenna. 



153. Arycanda orthostela sp. nov. 



<$, 41 mm. Head and thorax blackish, with a slight olivaceous tinge; thorax 

 above with an admixture of shiny blue-grey scales. First three segments of 

 abdomen coloured nearly as thorax, the rest bright orange. 



Forewing shining blue-grey, along costal edge more brown-grey ; markings 



