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Underside grey with browiiisli fnscons suffusion. 



Head <and thorax grey-brown ; the dorsum grey, with anal segment pale. 

 Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 S from near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, October 

 to December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



33. Lophoptera khasiana spec, nov., and ab. coerulescens ab. nov. 



In Cat. Lep. Fhal. 1>..)/., vol. si. p. 189, Hampson described a Lophoptera, 

 liictuosa from a single ? from Ceyloa, which is figured on Plate 179, f. 3. The 

 Tring Museum contains seven examples, belonging apparently to three separate 

 species, all possessing the characteristic dull yellow spots at apex and tornus of 

 forewing which are seen in luctuosa, but differing in other respects, and in two cases 

 having au aberration caused by a suffusion of bluish white scales on the forewing. 

 In the two examples from the Khasia Hills, both Si, the basal area is of the same 

 dull brown as the rest of the wing; the dark median line is bluntly bent outwards 

 above and below the median vein, and is preceded by small slightly raised tnfts of 

 dark scales on the two folds; the outer line is double, moderately dentate-lnnulate, 

 the Innules being filled in with dull orange ; the subterminal is formed by blackish 

 wedge-shaped marks externally edged with dull orange, that above vein 7 being 

 displaced basewards, as in all the species, and filled in with clearer orange ; the 

 terminal lunnles all inwardly edged with whitish ; the hindwings in all the species, 

 as in luctuosa, brownish fuscons ; in the aberration coerulescens ab. nov. a spot in 

 cell touching inner line, a semicircular patch at middle of cell, and an oblong 

 oblique blotch below it running to outer line, the outer line itself, and a suffusion 

 before it from vein 4 to 7, are all pale bluish. The undersides in this and all the 

 other species agree with that of luctuosa. 



34. Lophoptera malayica spec. nov. and ab. pallidifusa ab. nov. 



Of three examples from Penang.the two typical, a c? and ? , are distinguished from 

 khasiana by the acutely serrate outer and subterminal lines, the teeth of which are 

 filled in with yellow and white ; the inner line is somewhat more conspicuous ; and 

 the dark median line runs obliquely straight to the sabmedian fold, where it is 

 angled and bent inwards towards base, preceded on both folds by small tufts of 

 scales ; the terminal lunnles internally edged with yellowish ; in the third specimen, 

 a c?, sh. pallidifusa ab. nov., the whole forewing, except a narrow irregular costal 

 space and the terminal area beyond outer line, is suffused with whitish blue scales, 

 the space immediately below the median vein being pale ochreons and running out 

 between veins 3 and 4 as a streak to subterminal line ; the terminal lunnles edged 

 inwardly with yellowish white. 



35. Lophoptera albilinea spec. nov. 



The whole forewing uniform dark brown, with no distinct median line or tnfts 

 of scales : inner line snow white, straight, curving inwards only at inner margin, 

 slightly crenulate ; reniform stigma a large dull orange patch ; outer line double, 

 Innulate dentate, filled in with dull yellow; the apical spot whiter ; the subterminal 

 line obscure ; hindwing paler, bronzy brown. 



1 ? from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty). 



