214 NoVlTATES ZOOLOQtCAE XXIII. 19l6. 



17. Gabala flavicosta spec nov. 



Forewing deep chocolate-brown, across which, the course of the lines can be 

 discerned, obscurely marked by dull blackish spots, costal edge broadly deep yellow, 

 interrupted before and beyond middle by the brown ground ; terminal area narrowly 

 and the fringe deep yellow, uninterrupted at middle by a tooth of brown colour; 

 basal area below the yellow costa rilled in with deep crimson mixed with irregular 

 whitish dots, containing on its outer edge between vein 1 and the cell-fold a large 

 somewhat diamond shaped silvery white blotch ; below the subapical yellow area 

 and partially confluent with it are two round silvery white spots with a triangular 

 one between them, the outer one with a white dot below it, preceded by a fine 



crimson line which runs past another silvery spot before the termen at vein 5. 



Hindwing and fringe pale yellow. 



Head, palpi, thorax, and patagia chocolate-brown ; tegulae red mixed with 

 yellow, containing a small yellowish spot on their inner edge and a large silvery 

 white one towards the outer ; dorsum ochreons, with the middle line and basal 

 tnfts brown ; venter and legs white ; the tibiae yellow. Underside of wings 

 yellowish, whitish basewards, the fringe deeper yellow; the dark area of forewing 

 showing through. 



1 ? from the Kumusi River, N.E. British New Guinea, low level, taken 

 in August 1907 by A. S. Meek. 



18. Chaudica meeki spec. nov. 



? . Differs from quadripennis in being redder brown with the yellow markings 

 deeper ; the lines more conspicuously red ; the lobe at the end of veins 3, 4, 5 of 

 hindwing rounded, instead of forming an angle ; in the 4 the costa of hindwing 

 reaches hardly to the middle of the inner margin of forewing, and curves into the 

 termen gradually without forming an angle. The underside of hindwing wholly 

 white, with long curling hair along costa and rough curved hair in terminal half 

 down to submediau fold. 



A series from near the Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 up to 3500 ft., taken from October to December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



19. Chaudica schistipennis spec. nov. 



3. Forewing brick-red, becoming purplish fuscous along the yellow costal 



markings, and red-brown along the terminal ; the lines yellow. Hindwing deeply 



cleft along the discal fold to end of cell ; yellowish tinged with dull fulvous ; 

 on the underside the hairs of the upper lobe and at end of the cleft reddish, the 

 rest pale yellow. 



A <?, minus the head, taken by W. Doherty, in Celebes, type. Smaller than 

 the other species, with veins 3, 4, 5 of hindwing stalked, probably in both sexes ; 

 a ? from Nias Island, at all events, exactly agreeing both in size and colour, has 

 all three stalked. 



20. Chionomera peresa spec. nov. 



Resembles pulchella in size and coloration, also in the markings, except that 

 the large white conical central area is divided into two small conical blotches ; one 

 truncated from costa to median vein, the lower triangular on outer third of inner 

 margin, its apex near he lower outer angle of the blotch above. 



