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inside of legs white ; legs black mixed with white, the tarsi black with the joints 

 white. 



Expanse of wings : <? 36 mm. ; ? 40 mm. 



5 <?(J, 12 ? ¥ from Now (Jninea : Biagi, Marabare River; Angabunga River; 

 Upiicr Setekwa River ; Ootakwa River ; Ninay Valley. 



111. Maceda riifibasis spec. nov. and ab. interjimcta ab. nov. 



Forewing : with the basal area olive rufons ; the subbasal line black, projecting 

 and swollen along inner margin : the rest of wing snffnsed with purplish 

 fnscoQS, the median area darkest, leaving the apical space above vein 6 between 

 the outer line and terminal sliado wliitish or brownish, traversed by the blackish 

 snbterminal line, preceded on costa hy a dark blotch ; the median area is edged 

 internally by a broad pale oblique slightly curved whitish line, which sometimes is 

 absent ; the outer edge of median area at costa and inner margin is followed by 

 a whitish ochreous line, which often reaches across wing; tlie black eell-s])ot is 

 followed by a white dot ; fringe brownish fuscous, with a pale line at base. 



Hindwing : with broad black marginal border running up below cell to base; 

 the base of veins 2 to .5 white, the cell and space beyond smoky grey, with the 

 veins and cell-spot black ; fringe white from vein 5 to anal angle, with a slight 

 white tooth at end of submedian fold. 



Underside of forewing fuscous with the ape.x brown ; in the c? the costa at 

 base and the interspaces between the bases of veins 2 and 4 white ; the outer half 

 of cell hyaline white ; hindwing white, with broad black terminal border leaving 

 two white patches along termen ; cell-spot black : fringe white except at apex. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with basal area of forewing, the 

 dorsum blackish ; venter and pectus white ; legs fawn-colour ; tarsi black with 

 white joints. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



" c? c?, 2 ¥ ? from New Guinea : Upper Aroa River ; Biagi, Mambare River ; 

 Angabunga River ; Ninay Valley, Arfak Mountains (type) ; and Brisbane, 

 Queensland. 



A form analogous to one of the aberrations of mansueta Wlk. occurs also in 

 this species — ab. interjuncta ab. nov. ; the outer third of forewing is brownish or 

 brownish flesh-colour, with the submarginal line black and strongly dentate across 

 it ; the outer line also acutely dentate, and emitting a dark streak along vein 6 

 to the terminal cloud ; the median area in this form docs not remain black, but 

 becomes either rufous olive like the basal area or whitisli with the lower third 

 black. 



2 (? c? from the Ninay Valley, Arfak Mts. 



Subfamily NOGTUINAE. 

 112. Arete papuensis spec. nov. and ab. albimixta ab. nov. 



Forewing : brown suffused with darker, and sparsely dusted with bluish 



scales; the lines black; a large black blotch at base above vein 1, sometimes 



reaching through cell to costa ; the subbasal line marked narrowly on costa ; inner 



line black, angled outwards on submedian vein and outcurved above and below 



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