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POECILO GRAMMA. By W. Warren. 
dinawa. 
fragmentata 
distort irna- 
cula. 
guttata. 
on subcostal vein; the dark area limited by an oblique silvery white line, angled outwards beyond cell, 
and enclosing a small triangular dark spot beyond a small white discoidal lunule; an oblique red brown 
fascia from apex to discal fold, formed of short streaks, angled outwards at vein 4, and bent outwards 
to tornus below submedian fold; hindwing white, the costal and terminal areas broadly pale rufous; 
fringe rufous. Ekeikei, British New Guinea. 
8 e c t. III. Antennae of B shortly ciliated; veins 8, 9 of forewing downcurved, 
with a long groove above their stalk, and a thickened gland o n costa above it; 
vein 10 from cel 1, curved upwar d s. 
B. dinawa Beth.-Baker (19f). Forewing dark chocolate brown, with a purplish grey gloss along 
the margins; an oblique silvery white streak from base of costa to middle of submedian fold, where 
it ends in a small point, its upper edge angled outwards on subcostal vein; a curved clawlike streak 
from end of cell to above middle of vein 4, with a minute white point beyond it; an oblique dark 
band from apex to inner margin beyond middle, across which the veins show pale; a narrow dark 
terminal band; hindwing white, the terminal area brown, narrowing to anal angle; fringe purple browm, 
whitish towards tornus. Dinawa, British New Guinea; also from Fergusson Island. 
Sect. IV. All the veins of fore wing normal. 
B. fragmentata spec. nov. (19 f). Forewing deep fulvous brown, except along a subterminal band 
which is dull leaden grey; marked with 5 cream white spots, two before middle and one beyond large; 
the other two smaller, forming the extremities of outer line, which between the spots is marked by 
a curved row of white dots on the veins; of the 3 larger spots the innermost touches the costa, is angled 
inwards in base of cell and outwards on subcostal vein, and bluntly below at sub median fold; the next 
obliquely below it is bounded above by the submedian fold, where it is broadest, and towards base 
protrudes slightly beyond vein 1; the third represents the reniform stigma, lunulate, with the lower 
lobe produced terminally; a small dot stands at base of costa and another near base of median vein; 
the orbicular a minute dot; fringe brown; hindwing whitish, washed with pale brown along termen; fringe 
pale brown; underside of forewing brown with inner margin whitish; of hindwing white with costal area 
brown; an outer line marked in forewing by a white costal spot, in hindwing by a brown line, and 
white dots below costa; head and thorax brown; lower half of face and middle of vertex white; ab¬ 
domen brownish fuscous. 3 Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea (A. S. Meek). 
B. distortimacula spec. nov. (19 f). Forewing shorter and broader than in fragmentata, with the 
paler brown tints more coppery fulvous, and all the white markings attenuated and more angular; the 
white subterminal scaling more developed; the hindwing whiter with the grey border of termen not reaching 
below vein 2. 4 from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, above 6000 feet, taken between 
November 1904 and February 1905 by A. S. Meek, are in the Tring Museum. 
B. guttata spec. nov. (19 g). Forewing dull olive brown suffused with black brown, except in the 
space beyond outer line; a white dot at base of cell followed by a few linear white scales on subcostal 
vein; 5 white spots before middle; two small towards costa, one above, the other below costal vein; 
the other 3 oval, one in cell near base, the other two towards inner margin, one below, the second 
above vein 1; orbicular stigma round, black in a brown ring; reniform a large white blotch; outer line 
commencing as a vertical white nail-shaped mark from costa to vein 7, continued as 3 white dots 
on veins 6, 5, 4, and ending in a sinuous white mark from 3 to inner margin, swollen above 2 and 
on vein 1; a row of irregular black marks precedes the very obscure subterminal line which begins on 
costa as a white spot; terminal black spots edged inwardly with brown; fringe dark brown; hindwing whitish 
gradually becoming brown terminally; a fine dark terminal line interrupted by white points at end of veins; 
fringe dark brown at apex, with a white middle line below vein 6, and wholly white at anal angle; under¬ 
side of forewing yellowish brown, the spots slightly showing through; the costal spots before apex white; 
hindwing white with large grey cellspot and outer line; the costal and apical area brown with white 
speckling; head and thorax mixed light and dark brown; basal segment of antenna and lower part 
of face pale; abdomen whitish tinged with grey brown. 3 $$ 1 £ from the Angabunga River and 
a pair from Biagi, Mambare River, New Guinea in the Tring Museum, taken by A. 8. Meek. The species differs 
from all others by the termen of forewing being excised from vein 7 to 4 and again from 4 to anal angle. 
39. Genus: !*oe<*iio^rii bib nasi Btlr. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned the second segment broadly clothed with 
scales, the third short, porrect; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax clothed with scales; the prothorax and 
metathorax slightly crested; forewing elongate, ivith termen evenly curved. Type P. picatum Btlr. 
P. picatum Btlr. Forewing dark brown, with black streaks hi and beloiv cell, and in the 
picatum. 
