GEOMETRIDAE. 



149 s 



also on Ceram I. and Waigeu I. (Wr^ren's type was from Woodlark I.) ; S. 

 subnigrata Warren, 1905, Solomon Is. (praec. subsp. ?). Whether the new species 

 about to be described also belongs here must be settled when the q is discovered, 

 but I think it probable. No other section of Sauris need yet be specially con- 

 sidered in relation to the Polynesian fauna ; the section Sauris only reaches 

 the Solomon Is. (S. abnormis nitidula Warren, 1899 and S. angusta Warren, 

 1905), Holorista New Guinea, Pseudoschista the Solomon Is. (P. dentatilinea 

 Warren, 1905, and a few unnamed forms), Helminthoceras Woodlark I. (H. 

 erigcns Prout, 1925), Anthierax the Solomon Is. (A. subfulva Warren, 1905), 

 Coptogonia the Bismarck Archipelago (C. lucens fortunata Prout, 1925) ; C. 

 volcanica Butler, 1887 ( = C. erebata Warren, 1903) belongs to the Solomon Is., 

 C. aspricosla Prout, 1925, to New Ireland, and C. brunnescens Warren, 1896, 

 to British New Guinea, Fergusson I. (loc. typ.) and the Solomon Is. 



25. Sauris mellita, sp. n. 



§, 33-36 mm. Head and body buff. Palpus very long (nearly 4), terminal 

 segment long, not extremely slender ; tinged above with olive. Legs in part- 

 clouded with grey. 



Fore wing with areole large, SC 1 from before its end, SC 5 just stalked with 

 SC 2 ™ 4 , R 1 about connate, R 2 slightly before middle of DC ; base mixed with 

 buff (perhaps discoloured in the type) : the rest whitish-green, with rather 

 thick wavy lines of deep grape green, about eleven more or less well expressed, 

 one or two others faintly indicated ; the lines of the median area in part marked 

 with dusky brown, especially behind M and its branches, culminating in rather 

 strong spots at SM 2 ; this area twice as broad at costa as at hind margin ; the 

 three postmedian lines (especially the outermost) rather markedly indented 

 inward at SC 5 and outward at R 1 , the second and third coalescing behind middle ; 

 the bisected band beyond rather more mixed with white, especially distally ; 

 the first and second lines of distal area marked with dusky brown between the 

 radials and just behind M 2 ; the line outside the pale subterminal indented in 

 cellule 7, with some dark scales at the point of the tooth ; termen with six 

 large dark dots (on veins SC 5 to M 2 ), a smaller dot at apex and at SM 2 ; fringe 

 pale. Hind iving with C anastomosing with SC nearly to end of cell, SC 2 with 

 R 1 and R 3 with M 1 variably stalked, R 2 from about centre of DC ; cream-buff to 

 chamois ; distal half of fringe more whitish. 



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