(6) 



and the sabterminal line are all pale and distinct ; the last sometimes broken up 

 into separate spots ; a thick, blackish, nearly vertical, median shade passes over 

 the reniform. 



Iliixliriiig : white, the veins strongly brown ; the whole wing, excei)t the cell 

 and space beyond it, tinged with pale fuscons, more thickly along the margins ; the 

 termen with a broad diffuse blackish border, partially darkening the fringe. 



Underside of forewing dull grey with the termen darker; of hindwing white 

 with all the margins blackish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark fuscons blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



4 ¥ ? from Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



Larger and darker than radians, to which it is nearest allied. 



11. Rhyacia spilosata spec. nov. 



Foreirini) : uniform dull grey-brown, with all the markings obscnred ; orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata filled up with darker, without distinct annnli or outlines ; inner 

 and outer lines conversely dentate-lunnlate, the teeth of the former pointing base- 

 wards ; those of the outer, as usual, double ; subterminal line marked by a double 

 row of brown spots, the inner between, the onter on, the veins ; a row of terminal 

 black dots ; the terminal area narrowly darker. 



Ilindwiinj : somewhat paler than forewing; the fringe concolorous. 



Underside of forewing dark, of hindwing paler ; the latter with cell-spot and 

 outer line. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



1 cf without locality, from the Elwes Collectio.i ; 1 ? from Phallalooug on tlie 

 Nepal frontier, taken at an elevation of 12,0U0 ft., July 190.i. 



12. Rhyacia papuana spec. nov. 



As large as triangularis Moore, which it most resembles. 



Forewing: purplish brown, without the reddish tinge of triangularis ; the 

 costal streak broadly pale to beyond the reniform ; the two stigmata pale, both 

 confluent above with the streak, and both touching median veiu below ; the cell 

 blackish throughout ; claviform stigma pale, with diffuse dark purplish outline ; 

 outer line purplish, lunulate-dcntate ; the subiuargiual preceded by a row of dark 

 luuules. 



Hindwing: dull pale grey, darker towards termen, showing a dull grey cell- 

 spot and outer line. 



Pal])! extcrniilly, vertex of hea<l, collar, the thorax and jiatagia deep brown- 

 black ; tips of palpi, face and tegulae rufous ochreous mixed with grey, the tegnlae 

 with a broad but diffuse blackish middle line ; abdomen furry grey. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 i from the Angabuiiga River, British New Guinea, OOUU ft., November 

 1904 to February 1005 (A. S. Meek). 



13. Rhyacia praetermissa spec, nov., and subsp. insulata subsp. nov. 



Forewing: purplish fuscous in the ?, jiale reddish Ijrown in the S ; costal 

 streak whitish from base to reniform stigma, dotted with grey, sometimes pink- 



