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182. Craspedosis amaura spec, now 



Fort wing : black, with traces of a dull slate-coloured transverse space beyond 

 middle, diffuse and undefined ; fringe Mack. 



Hindwing: black, with a round hyaline white patch occupying the basal half, 

 the base and inner margin being smoky blackish. 



Underside duller. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish slate-colonr ; anal tuft yellowish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 <?. 



183. Craspedosis miranda spec, no v. 



Foretoing : black with a deep purplish gloss in certain lights; crossed from 

 costal vein beyond middle to vein 1 above anal angle by a broad snow-white band, 

 the inuer edge of which is straight and the outer curved ; fringe black. 



Hindwing : black with purplish gloss. 



Underside the same ; the white band broader. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



4 <?cJ, 1 ?• 



Resembles C. semiplaga Warr., but rather smaller ; the white blotch much 

 broader, and the tinge purplish instead of shite-colour. 



184. Craspedosis purpurea spec. nov. and ab. extincta uov. 



Forewing : deep purple ; a snow-white tapering streak from subcostal vein at 

 middle towards anal angle; in the ? the fine end of the streak sometimes touches 

 vein 1, bnt more often, as in the d, stops short at 2 ; in some of the <?c? the streak 

 is still further reduced and narrowed, in one instance represented by a single white 

 spot below the subcostal vein ; fringe coucolorons. 



Hindwing: wholly deep purple. 



Underside the same; the white streak broader and shorter, with rounded 

 lower end. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 40 — 50 mm. 



8 <Jc?, 3 ? ?. 



Three out of the 8 c? c? have the white streak reduced, which I call ab. extincta, 



185. Alcis ocellata Warr. 

 Alois papuemii ab. ocellata Warr., Nov. Zool. x. p. 388 (t903). 



Among the insects received lately from Biagi are good series of Alcis papuemii 

 and its aberrations decolor and ocellata, and 4 i S of ab. maculata. 



Among the ocellata are 2 ? ?, entirely different from the ? of papuenaix type, 

 so that this at all events must be considered a distinct species ; and though 1 have 

 not seen their ? ? I am strongly disposed to consider the other two aberrations as 

 specifically distinct also ; the <Jc? arc all true to their own type, without intergrades 

 of any kind. 



The ? of ocellata is dull pinkish grey instead of olive-tinged, as in the cJ, paler 

 and less dusted with dark atoms, and therefore showing the lines and shading 



