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white patch reaching from costa to vein 1 ; a wedge of chestnut snrronnded by 

 black rnns into the white at apex of cell ; onter three-fifths chestnut edged with 



brown-black, a white terminal spot on vein 3. Hindwing : basal half obliquely 



semihyaline white ; abdominal and tornal regions and outer half black, a dark 

 chestnut spot at tornus. 



Length of forewing : 18 mm. 



Hab. Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., 

 October— December 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



155. Caprimima postvitrea sp. uov. 



<J. Head and antennae black ; thora.x: black, tegulae orange-golden yellow ; 



abdomen black, anal tuft white. Forewing: basal two-fifths orange-golden 



yellow except basal seventh, which is black ; outer three-fifths black, almost 



covered by a postmedian large dark maroon-chestnut patch. -Hindwing: basal 



half hyaline yellow, abdominal margin and onter half sooty black. 



Length of forewing : 12 nam. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000—7000 ft., February 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



15G. Caprimima postnigra sp. uov. 



(J. Head and antennae black; thorax black, tegulae golden yellow ; abdomen 



black, anal tuft dark grey. Forewing : basal half golden-yellow with basal 



seventh black ; outer half black, almost covered by a large postmedian chestnut 

 patch. Hindwings sooty black with traces of au apical chestnut spot. 



¥ larger ; differs by the tegulae being black with golden-yellow dot, and the 

 presence of an orange-golden patch in cell of hindwing. 



Length of forewing : (? 11 mm., ? 15 mm. 



Hab. Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5000—7000 ft., February 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). 



157. Caprimima coerulescens occidentalis subsp. no v. 



Differs from c. coeridcscens in the much wider golden b.ands on both wings. 

 Had. Rendova, Solomon Islands, February 1904 (A. S. Meek). 



158. Caprimima coerulescens insignis subsp. nov. 



Larger and brighter ; diff'ers from the other races of coerulescens in the much 

 greater extent of yellow ; in the hindwing it occupies three-quarters of wing, the 

 whole apical quarter of forewing being black. 



Hab. Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, March 1908 (A. S. Meek). 



159. Caprimima pseudogelida sp. nov. 



? . Differs at first sight from t/el/t/a in its much shorter and rounded wings ; 

 steel-bine tegulae with white dot, white median band of forewing extending beyond 

 subcostal nervure, and the white band of forewing smaller and only reaching to fold 

 above vein 1. 



Length of forewing : 14-5 mm. 



Hab. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5iMJ0ft., April 1900 (A. S. 

 Meek). 



