210 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



NEW ORIENTAL NOOTTTIDAE IN THE THING MUSEUM.* 



By the late W. WARREN, M.A. 



1. Ramadasa fumipennis spec. nov. 



Forewing marked like pavo, but the basal half is blue-grey with hue black 

 speckling and the outer half brownish yellow ; the spot on inner margin beyond 



outer line large. Hindwing yellow, the basal half suffused with fuscous except 



just beyond cell ; a broad black subterminal band with a slight sinus on its outer 

 edge in snbterminal interval, the termen beyond it and fringe pure yellow. 



Malay Peninsula. 



2. Ramadasa plumbeola spec. nov. 



Forewing with basal half bluish grey speckled with black ; the orange costal 

 edge broken by three wide black dashes ; the median line thick and black, outcurved 

 to three-quarters of inner margin, single, the usual outer arm being represented 

 only by a black triangle on costa ; a fine blue line on the curved discocellnlar, 

 edged internally by a fine black line which curves downwards obliquely parallel to 

 outer line ; this is velvety black and curved from costa to termen, with a slight 

 diffuse cloud inside its lower end, but with no horizontal black streak or line of 

 metallic scales ; the three black spots beyond cell large ; the subterminal spots 



larger ; the spot on inner margin beyond outer line absent. Hindwing blackish 



fuscous with the fringe only yellow. 



1 (? from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



The smallest species of the genus. The veins and folds are all straight and 

 normal. 



3. Ramadasa biarcuata spec. nov. 



Forewing coloured as in pavo, but in the S the basal area is more or less 

 invaded by pale olive-brown ; the median line is sinuous, not straight, and less 

 oblique, reaching inner margin at two-thirds, black edged by pale lilac, often 

 interrupted in midwing, single instead of double, the black outer arm only reaching 

 subcostal vein, where it runs outwards and forms the oblique lower arm of the 

 outer line, which runs obliquely from costa to fringe ; the purplish metallic scales 

 are restricted to a fine straight lustrous silvery line, reaching the red cloud, which 

 is here elongate and edged on its inner side by a black line with the black dots 

 below stronger ; the lower edge of the outer line curves inwards along the disco- 

 cellular, which is followed by a long narrow crescentic stigma filled in with olive 

 and finely edged with silvery white ; the inner-marginal area is generally darkened 



diffusely by a brownish cloud ; subterminal dark dots as in pavo. Hindwing 



yellow, rather paler in the S. 



Dutch and British New Guinea. Type from the Upper Setekwa R., Dutch 

 S.E. New Guinea (A. S. Meek). 



* These descriptions were among the papers left by the late Mr. W. Warren. They have been com- 

 pared with the specimens in the Tring Museum in order to make sure whether Mr. Warren had selected 

 a specimen of each species or variety as type and labelled it as such. All the types have been found. — 

 Editors. 



