NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIII. 1916. 77 



160. Asthenophleps strigulata sp. no v. 



<?, 27 mm. Head and body light brown, slightly variegated with warmer 

 sbades. 



Forewing glossy light brown, with cream-colonred transverse strignlation, 

 which tends to become grey-white in places, especially along the veins ; a white 

 spot in cell towards its end, accompanied proximally by a faint fuscous one ; a 

 lnnulate white spot in snbmedian area, slightly more proximal, accompanied 

 proximally by a distinct fuscous spot ; a sinuous white postmedian line from 

 before three-fourths costa, thick in places anteriorly and posteriorly, strongly 

 excnrved and very slender about R 3 -M', slightly edged here and there with 

 fuscous ; a fuscous streak between R 1 and R 3 , from postmedian to near termen, 

 a patch between M 2 and SM 2 , and (more slightly) between medians ; two white 

 spots, rather obliquely placed, from close to apex ; a row of irregular admarginal 

 white spots, that behind M 2 elongate so as to reach SM 2 ; some very weak dark 



terminal dots ; fringe very weakly darkened at vein-ends. Hindwing glossy, 



violet-grey, becoming slightly more brown distally ; fringe concolorous with 

 forewing. 



Both wings beneath with the ground-colour warmer brown, the forewing in 

 cell and posteriorly largely obscured with dark violet-grey shading, the hindwing 

 from base to beyond middle with still darker shading ; both wings with small 

 dark cell-spot and irregular dark, partly distally white-edged postmedian line ; 

 forewing with this white edging expanded into spots before and behind R 1 , and 

 with the white subapical spots of upperside reproduced ; hindwing with a slight 

 oblique dark shade from tornns. 



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

 Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



