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below costa, then iuwardly oblique, parallel to termeii ; this Hue is precedeil by a 

 fuscous shade at costa, and the pale line edging it is itself followed by a dark 

 line ; subtenuinal line represented by a row of dark spots ; a brown clond before 

 termeu at middle; fringe dark brown; cell-.^iiot brown, preceded by a brown 

 dot in cell. 



Hindwing : Inteons in basal half and along inner margin, the terminal area 

 dull orange, like the fringe. 



Underside of forewing deep lirick-red ; the inner margin whitish ; the costal 

 streak and apex dnll pink, sjieckled with dark ; hindwing ochreons, the costa and 

 apex reddish speckled with brown : fringe red, in the forewing with the base dark 

 brown. 



Head, shonlders, and palpi externally brownish fnlvous ; thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous ; venter red. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



A d (type) and ¥ from Penang, 1896 (Curtis) ; 2 ? ? from Yonboi, Hainan, 

 Jnne 1904. 



In the ? from Penang and one ? from Hainan the inner line of forewing 

 is preceded on inner margin by a round velvety black spot = ab. nigrimacula 

 ab. nov. 



86. Aiteta famata spec, nov, and subsp. griseomixta subsp. nov. 



Forewing: like that of elaina iSwinh. in markings, but differs in the fawn- 

 coloured ground being almost obscnred by dense olive-fuscous irroratiou, showing 

 chiefly, as also in elaina, in a patch before subterminal line on costa ; the scales 

 are arranged in such a manner that they appear shagreened wlien viewed from 

 the base outwardly ; the fringe has the inner half deep pink, the onter white. 



Hindwing : suffused with fuscous, paler below median, especially in the S, 

 where the fuscous is blacker and the veins more strongly marked ; fringe as in 

 forewing. 



Underside of forewing in both sexes blackish, with the costa narrowly and the 

 apex and termen broadly dull {)ink ; of hindwing fuscous, broadly dull pink along 

 costa, with the veins in ? pink. 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown ; the dorsum blacker than in elaina. 



Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm. 



3 c?(? from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, November 

 to January 1909 (type) ; 1 ¥ from Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 

 October to December 1910 (Meek) ; 1 ? from Angabnnga River, British New 

 Guinea, November 1904 to January 190.5 (Meek). 



The form occurring in the Solomon Islands — subsp. griseomixta nov., as 

 represented by a single, somewhat worn ? from Tulagi — is much greyer, the 

 fawn-colour of the upperside and the pink of the underside being all but 

 obsolete. 



87. Aiteta nifula spec. nov. 



Forewing : rufous o?.hreous mixed with grey : the basal patch, central area, 

 and termen tinged with fnlvous ; basal patch edged by a dark curved line, not 

 reaching below submedian fold ; inner and outer lines blackish, conversely edged 

 with white, coalescing on inner margin, the fulvous area enclosed containing 

 some irregular dark patches and a black cell-spot, followed on costa by a grey 



