408 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



Hindwing : white in basal Iwlf, brownish fuscons in terminal ; black torininal 

 Innnles; a slight pale streak to termcii across submedian interval ; the veins dark 

 before the border ; cell-spot dark. 



Underside reddish grey, with dark cell-siwt and onter line rising from a white 

 costal dot ; the apex and inner margin white ; snbterminal line formed of black 

 and white Innules; hindwing paler, white in inner-marginal half, with prominent 

 black cell-spot and black blotch at anal angle ; two cnrved onter and one sub- 

 terminal dark line. 



Face, palpi, tegulae,and patagia dark brown-grey; the abdomen paler grey with 

 dark segmental rings. 



E.'ipanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 5 from Oetakwa River, Snow Monntaina, Dntch New Guinea, October to 

 December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



19. Bombotelia rothschildi spec. nov. 



Forewing : purplish plnm-colour; the lines dark, obscure and interrnpted; 

 inner line obliqne outwards, preceded by a grey line, then subobsolete, curved 

 in cell and obliqne inwards to inner margin, preceded in submedian interval by 

 a brown band ; outer line marked by a slight grey costal striga, then ontbent, 

 bluntly bent at vein 6, then obliqne and sinuous inwards, distinct only beyond 

 cell and below vein 3, followed below 3 by a brown band ; a small brown patch 

 above vein before the bend in outer line, which is there edged with golden yellow, 

 and followed by a golden yellow patch speckled with brown and angled ex- 

 ternally ; a larger golden yellow patch lies on inner margin before the onter 

 line, traversed by an angled black mark, the yellow becoming brown above 

 towards median vein ; snbterminal line represented by a fine curved white line at 

 costa and another above anal angle ; fringe purple. 



Hindwing : pearly white with a purplish terminal border containing a brown 

 patch between veins 2 and 3 edged above with whitish ; a white striga above 

 anal angle. 



Underside ochreous tinged with purple and grey in forewing ; inner margin 

 broadly white ; outer and snbterminal lines deep purple with an orange patch 

 speckled with brown between them beyond cell ; cell-spot dark ; hindwing whitish 

 along inner margin, deep purple on terminal border, and violet i)arple along costa ; 

 cell-spot large, pur])le-black ; an onter pale-edged dark line before the border, 

 marked with dashes on the veins. 



Head and thorax deep purple ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with 

 brown ; basal segments and metathorax brown ; venter ochreous ; the legs purplish 

 in front. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 (J from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 

 November 1908 to January 1909. 



This species belongs to the group containing dinaica Beth.-Baker, dinaicaensis 

 Beth.-Baker, and aureiplaga Beth.-Baker. 



20. Eleale porphyrina spec. nov. 



Forewing: deep brown dusted in patches with bluish scales ; a deep fulvous 

 red patch on inner margin at base before inner line, and another on costa before 



