328 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



median patch on costa and on inner margin joined by two parallel median lines 

 chocolate-brown, a postdiscal broad chocolate patch from veiu 5 to inner margin, a 

 terminal row of brown patches ; one-fourth from apex there is an indentation and con- 

 striction at costa, beyond which to the median brown patch is a scent-organ covered 



with long, shaggy, androconial hair. Hindwing : basal two-fifths dirty greyish 



white, outer three-fifths brown-grey. 



? . Differs in having the median costal patch much larger and the one on inner 

 margin absent, the postdiscal brown band is complete to costa, and the hindwings 

 are uniform brown-grey. 



Length of forewing : $ 12 - 5, ? 14 mm. Expanse : 3 29, ? 32 mm. 



4 c?c?, 4 ? ?, Dampier Island. 



246. Chionaema melanochlorus sp. nov. 



S. Antennae, head, and thorax bronzy brown ; abdomen sooty grey, anal tuft 

 orange-buff. 



Forewing bronzy olive-brown, with three or four indistinct transverse sooty 



black bands, scent-organ banded black and buff. Hindwing : basal half whitish, 



outer half brown-grey. 



?. Entirely dark sooty grey, washed with bronze on outer third of forewing; 

 a median black stigma. 



Length of forewing : c? 15, ¥ 13 mm. Expanse : c? 34, ¥ 30 mm. 



1 J, 1 ?, Dampier Island. 



247. Tricholepis postdivisa sp. nov. 



(?. This species is close to sinapis Rothsch. and ochracea Rothsch., but the 

 wings are longer and narrower. 



Antennae black except first joint ; head fulvous orange-yellow, vertex and 

 collar dark brown ; thorax fulvous orange ; abdomen black, median two-thirds of 

 dorsum fulvous orange-yellow. 



Forewing fulvous orange yellow, a somewhat broad costal and terminal border 



black ; distal half of inner margin narrowly black. Hindwing : costal two-fifths 



fulvous orange-yellow, rest black. 



? . Has much narrower black margins to forewings, and the hindwings are 

 entirely fulvous orange-yellow with narrow black margins, and the whole abdomen 

 fulvous orange-yellow; 1 ? has the lower third of hindwing black. 



Length of forewing : <? ? 11 mm. Expanse : 24 mm. 



4 SS, 3 ? ?, Dampier Island. 



248. Asura pallida Rothsch. 



Asura pallida Rothschild, Nov. Zool. xx. p 209 (1913) (Dorey). 

 3 c?<?, Dampier Island. 



249. Asura citrinopunctata Rothsch. 



Asura citrinopunctata Rothschild, Nov. Zool. xx. p. 208 (1913) (Kumusi River). 



2 SS, 1 ?, Vulcan Island. 



