MICBOLEPIDOPTEKA OP NEW GUINEA 
15 
Eudaemoneura haematosema spec. nov. (figs. 731, 732) 
alfia — blood, afj/xa = mark 
$ 11 — 12 mm. Head shining white, vertex suffused with crimson- 
orange. Antenna pale golden-ochreous. Palpus glossy ochreous-white. 
Thorax white, posterior half suffused with pale ferruginous, sometimes 
suffused throughout with pale ferruginous; shoulder infuscated, pectus 
white. Abdomen leaden-grey or pale ochreous-greyish, venter glossy white. 
Legs; anterior and median white, tibiae and tarsi light ochreous, tarsi 
fin ely dark-ringed, posterior leg ochreous, tibia and basal segment of 
tarsus suffused with crimson-fulvous above, whorls of bristles and apices 
of tarsal segments ferruginous. Fore wing with vein 2 sometimes weak, 
lanceolate, costa straight, base much constricted. Ochreous-golden. A 
suffused dark brown narrow streak along basal half of costa, sometimes 
becoming pale basally; a small white spot in middle of disc beyond base, 
sometimes indefinite ; three large snow-white erect-ovate spots on dorsum : 
before 1 / 4 , in middle, and at 3 / 4 of wing, outwards, inwards, and outwards 
oblique, respectively, posterior one smallest, rather narrow, sometimes 
ill-defined and suffused with ground colour ; a thick rather irregular deep 
ferruginous line edging white spots except below and connecting them 
along dorsal edge with each other, and the first one also with base of wing. 
Cilia whitish-fuscous. Hind wing fuscous-whitish, slightly more infuscated 
towards apex. Cilia whitish-fuscous. 
Ostium indefinite, indicated by a broad lirnen which forms a small 
semiovate sclerotisation above, with two series of small folds diverging 
from it. Bursa copulatrix very long, apparently with one or more 
diverticles. Signum a small concave plate, denticulate on the outer surface. 
(Slide no. 1101 D, holotype.) 
Mist. Camp, 1800 m, January 10, 1939 (holotype), January 23, 1939. 
Two specimens. 
Adamantoscelis gen. nov. (fig. 734) 
dda/mg = steel, axiXog = leg 
Head smooth, rounded, face retreating. Ocellus inferior-subanterior. 
Proboscis moderate. Antennae 1, in female with scape elongate, dilated, 
flattened, flagellum thickened with scales and with a fringe of very long 
subappressed scales (2 — 3 1 / 2 ) above from base to 5 / 6 , this fringe triangularly 
dilated before middle, gradually becoming shorter towards apex, apical 
sixth of flagellum slender, filiform. Labial palpus moderately long, recurved, 
ascending, somewhat compressed laterally, median segment thickened 
with short scales, roughly projecting anteriorly, terminal segment under 1, 
thickened, smooth, acute. Maxillary palpus rudimentary. Anterior and 
median tibia smooth, thickened, with an apical whorl of bristly scales, 
posterior tibia thickened, smooth, with a median and an apical whorl of 
very long bristles, spurs thickened, bristly along posterior edge, outer 
