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193. Catephia pulchristrigata s]>ec. nov. 



<?. Head and thorax purplish brown, abdomen purplish grey. Primary dark 

 velvety purjilisli brown, witli a short basal line into the cell ; autemedial line pale 

 ochreous brown, with a dark centre ; sharjily waved and oblique from the costa 

 into the cell, where it is very acutely angled, the angle being formed by a short 

 inward curve, after which it curves outwardly to the inner margin ; beyond this is 

 a broad median band of cream-colour, shading into crimson at the two margins and 

 edged externally by a white evenly curved line ; jjostmedial line broad, dark, finely 

 edged with ochreous brown, oblique to vein 6, where it is angled suddenly and 

 acutely inwards ; at vein 5 it assumes an oblique direction to about vein 2, where it 

 is acutely angled by a sharp inward curve to the inner margin; a steely-blue ocellus 

 with an olive iris and encircled finely with blackish occupies this curve up to the 

 tornus ; a large subapical costal jiatch is edged finely with ochreous brown, followed 

 by three smaller similar oval spots below it ; terminal area broadly pale purplish ; 

 termen finely ochreous, preceded by a fine double dark waved line. Secondary 

 blackish grey, with a broad median oblique band of bluish white into the tornus ; 

 fringes dark, with a white patch below the a])ex. 



?. Like the male, but paler; all the lines whitish and very distinct, the pale 

 median band represented only by a white line ; the internal middle angle of the 

 postmedial line has two small ocelli somewhat below it, obliquely placed. 



Expanse : c? 80, ? 87 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from the Kebea Range, where the species 

 flies in March and April ; other examples from Dinawa in the same months, and in 

 August from various localities ; and in the Tring Museum from the Aroa River are 

 other specimens. 



194. Catephia splendens spec. nov. 



<J. Similar in its main pattern to the previous species, but the area between 

 the white curved line and the postmedial, instead of being filled in with deep 

 velvety purplish brown, is slightly cream-coloured at first, shading rapidly into 

 a beautiful pale olive ; near the white line in this area is a dark purplish C-mark ; 

 the purplish pale terminal area is broader than in the previous species. 



?. Precisely the same differences between the sexes obtain as in 0. pulchri- 

 strigata B-B., but the area outside the white curved line up to the postmedial line 

 is whitish bine with the same dark C-mark as in the male. 



Expanse : t? 81, ? 83 mm. 



llab. The type is in my collcotioa from Babooni, where the species occurs in 

 July to September, and again in March and April; other examples from Ekeikei, 

 taken in the same months. It is a rare species. 



195. Catephia hampsonia spec. nov. 



6. The general pattern of the j)rimary is as in 0. pulchristrigata B-B., except 

 that the broad creamy median band is reduced to a cream-coloured curved line, 

 whilst the acute angle of the autemedial line is extended outwards into this line ; 

 in the secondary the bluish-white band is altered to a large bluish-white patch. 

 The sexes are both exactly the same in every particular, and the insect is decidedly 

 smaller than either of its allies. 



