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2. Anterior hips snow-white at the ends, forewing without a light spot. 
M. haplopis Trnr. (85 g). Forewing short triangular. Costal margin strongly curved, pale brownish- haplopis. 
ochreous, with a dark brown line from the centre of the costal margin, incurved below the cell, to 2 / 5 of the 
inner margin (absent in the $) and a finer one from % of the costal margin distally curved to the tornus, 
bordered with pale in front outside in the Hindwing paler. Expanse of wings: 16—26 mm. North Australia, 
in October. 
M. robiginosa sp>. n. (85 g) resembles haplopis in the contours of the wings, but the margin of the robiginosa. 
hindwing is less curved. Fore wing light rusty brownish, more densely scaled, veins scantily strewn with 
blackish, transverse lines hardly traceable. Hindwing somewhat lighter than forewing. Expanse of wings: 
15 mm. New Guinea. type from Simbang (Berlin State Museum). 
M. inconspicua B.-Bak. (85 g). Similar to haplopis, larger, apex more pointed, less rounded, margin inconspi- 
below it scarcely convex. Forewing more densely scaled, more dusted with blackish, transverse lines scarcely cua " 
traceable. Expanse of wings: 20—28 mm. New Guinea, February till April, and September. 
M. conspicua sp. n. (85 g). Similar to inconspicua in the contours of the wings, more densely scaled, conspicua. 
duller, greyer, the blackish dusting almost forming spots. The two blackish transverse lines are distinct, the 
interior one very undulate below the cell, the exterior one strongly curved to the tornus. Hindwing much 
lighter, red-brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. New Guinea. type from Mt. Goliath, in February; also a 
from the Snow Mts., in August (Tring Museum). 
M. rosselensis sp. n. (85 g) is very similar to conspicua, but the interior transverse line below the cell ro.sselc?isis. 
of the forewing only once curved, the exterior one extends from vein 7 almost straight to the tornus. Expanse 
of wings: 17 mm. Rossel I., in November, December. d type from Mt. Rossel, 700 m (Tring Museum). 
M. minimalis v. Eecke (85 g). Wing-contours as in inconspicua, much smaller, red-brown, with 2 brown minimalis. 
transverse lines being divergent towards the inner margin, uniformly distally convex and not incurved. Veins 
mostly distinctly darker in the marginal area, also in the scarcely lighter hindwing. 15 mm. New Guinea, 
February till April and August. 
16. Genus: Pseudillliipiiea gen. nov. (Anajiaea Trnr., nec Wkr.). 
Near to the genus Altha, but the posterior angle of the cell of the hindwing is hardly projecting (strongly 
in Altha). 11 as well as 10 of forewing strongly bent basally. 
Type of genus: P. denotata Wkr. 
P. denotata Wkr. (85 g). Body and forewing rusty red, the forewing with an oblique row of brown spots denotata. 
encircled by white, only those at the inner margin before the middle being distinct. Two fine whitish, not dentate 
postmedian transverse lines, a similar one before the margin which is whitish around the apex. Hindwing 
reddish-brown, ochreous in the $. Expanse of wings: 20—34 mm. Australia. 
P. dentifascia sp. n. (86 g) resembles denotata , head and part of thorax dusted with silvery grey. Basal dentifascia. 
half of forewing and dots as in denotata, ground-colour more purple, distal half silvery whitish-grey, with a 
strongly dentate purple transverse line at %, followed by 2 more indistinct dark hardly dentate transverse 
lines. Fringe purple brown, finely traversed by yellow. Hindwing purple brown. Beneath: apex of forewing 
and costal margin of hindwing whitish. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Australia. $ type from the Peak-Downs 
(Berlin State Museum). To this species probably belong 2 with likewise dentate postmedian lines, the 
interior one remarkably darker than the other one, apex and tornus of fore wing less rounded than in denotata, 
hindwing paler yellow. 
P. transvestita sp. n. (86 g). Similar to dentifascia, but the S' entirely of the female habitus. Thorax trans- 
yellowish greyish-white, abdomen reddish ochreous. Forewing reddish-grey, the 5 reddish-ochreous dots en- vestita. 
circled by yellowish-white are almost situate in one line, and behind them there is a scarclev traceable shadowy 
transverse band, marked by dark vein-streaks, distally to which there are scarcely dark transverse bands to 
be seen. Hindwing ochreous, reddish towards the inner margin. Under surface ochreous. Expanse of wings: 
26 mm. South Australia. J type in the British Museum. 
17. Genus: Psendaltha gen. nov. 
Antenna of $ shortly pectinated to the end, paljms moderately long, appressed. Hind tibiae with 2 pair 
of spurs. 7—10 of forewing stalked, 10 arising shortly after 7, 7 shortly after the cell, 11 strongly bent to¬ 
wards 12. 6 and 7 of hindwing separated, 8 connected near the base with the cell by a long cross-vein. Posterior 
angle of cell scarcely projecting. Easily separable from Altha by the antenna being pectinated to the end. 
— Her. generotype: Ps. atramentifera. It may be that also Altha peralbida Swh. belongs to this genus. 
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