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below vein 2 is suffused with yellow ; in the form flavilauta, the whole ground- 

 colour o{' lioth wing's is washed with pale yellowish ; while in brunneofasa both 

 wings are suffused with reddish fawu-colonr. 



The markings and underside remain unchanged ; the abdomen of this species is 

 marked by a broad black or brown belt on third segment of dorsum. 



Expanse of wings : 44—48 mm. 



189. Cleora semidiscata Warr. and ab. nigrilinea nov. and ab. fumosa now 

 Chogada umiil'^nin Warr.. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 141, $ (1000). 



This species was described from a single 3 from the Angabnnga River. A 

 longer series of 8 c? cf and 1 ? shows it to be, like so many New Gainea insects, 

 very variable. 



The ? is more lilac or olive-grey, being thickly sprinkled with scales of that 

 tint. Of the <J c?, four are typical ; one, ab. nigrilinea, is much whiter, especially in 

 the median area between the two lines, which are deeply aud concisely black ; the 

 other three vary in the opposite direction, having the median area filled by a smoky 

 brownish grey diffuse fascia across both wings : this aberration 1 have called 

 fumosa. 



The ¥ expands 48 mm., and is noticeable for its very long ovipositor. 



190. Elphos exalbata- 



Elphoi exalbata Warr., Nov. Zoo!, x. p. 390 (1903). 



The ? of this species is a peculiarly handsome insect. The pale spaces of the 

 J are in it amplified, and the fuscous parts lightened with yellow. All the lines 

 of the hindwiug are accompanied by a yellow shade, which reappears in the inner- 

 marginal half of fore wing, where the space on inner margin between the inner and 

 outer lines is filled in with yellow, and a yellow nearly vertical band rises from it to 

 join the black costal portion in cell. Underneath the white is much more extended 

 and the marginal band velvety black. 



Expanse of wings : ? , 1U4 mm. 



The specimen came with 4 <J<^, all in perfect condition. 



191. Gasterocome subdivisa, ab. albimaculata nov. and ab. purpurea nov. 



In a very long series of this insect lately received from Biagi, nearly all 

 typical and all d $ bnt two, there are two specimens, both $ $, which require naming 

 as distinct aberrations. 



In the first, albimaculata, the broad horizontal pale streak from base is lost in 

 the general brown-black coloration of the wing, which is marked by ten white 

 blotches — viz. the pale streak at base, two antemediau, representing the upper and 

 lower parts of the antemedian pale band, one beyond the cell, three submarginal, 

 and three marginal, the middle one of these between 3 and 4 being bilobed and 

 representing the end of the horizontal streak. This blotch is also present on the 

 hindwiug, which shows three elongate pale streaks on inner margin below vein '■>, 

 and two blotches above, one in and one beyond cell. 



Underside the same, but duller. 



The other aberration, purpurea, has the dark coloration more amply developed 



