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tinged, plainer iu ? than c? ; lines finely lilaok, conversely edged with paler ; the 

 inner obliqne and double, the internal arm slender, preceded by a diffuse grey space; 

 tbe outer lunulate-dentate ; submarginal obscurely paler, indicated by the terminal 

 area beyond it being darker, preceded at costa by a black bar ; cell and a blotch at 

 base of submedian fold blackish ; orbicular stigma pale, dependent from the costal 

 streak, ronnded triangular ; reniform with j)ale curi'ed inner edge. 



Hindwing : fuscous grey, paler basewards. 



Underside with outer line and cell-spot on both wings. 



Head, palpi, and patagia purplish grey ; tegulae oohreou-!, with two rufous lines 

 and the tips velvety black ; abdomen, underside, and legs brownish grey. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 d', 3 ? ¥ from the Nilgiri Hills ; 1 i from Ooty, S. India. 



Closely allied to this species, but differing in being slightly smaller, with the 

 hindwings pale at base, 2 ? ? from Bonthain, Celebes, taken between .OOUO and 

 60U0 ft., October 1895, by A. Everett, may for the present be separated as subsp. 

 insulata subsp. nov. 



14. Rhyacia stigmatias spec. nov. and ab. pallidistigma ab. nov. 



Foreicirtff: of S jiale lilac grey or luteous grey, dusted with darker and more 

 or less strongly tinged with pink ; of ¥ wholly dull brick-red ; costal edge red ; 

 the lines dark, marked by dark spots on costa, disposed as in the allied species, 

 but rarely clear; the outer line outcurved and emitting rather long dark teeth 

 on the veins ; stigmata of the pale ground colour edged with brown ; the lower 

 half of reniform always black in the cJ, unicoloroas in the ¥ ; snbterminal line 

 sometimes indicated by a dark shade on each side ; fringe reddish with a dark 

 marginal festoon in the pale grey examples, without the festoon in the red 

 forms of the i, and in the ¥ ?. 



Hind winy: pale luteous grey. 



The colouring of the thora.x varies with that of the forewing. 



In the ab. pallidistigma ab. nov. all three stigmata are pale ochreous, and 

 the lower half of the reniform stigma velvety black. 



E.xpanse of wings : 32 — 36 mm. 



(i c?c?, 3 ¥ ¥ from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, GOOD fc, 

 November 19U4 to February 190.5, and 1 3 from Biagi, Mambare River, .5000 ft., 

 April 1906 (A S. Meek). 



15. Rhyacia griseithorax spec. no7. 



Forewing: pale lilac grey with a faint greenish tint; the sp.'ckling and lines 

 olive brownish ; inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale grey ; the inner 

 strongly angled outwards below vein 1 ; outer line sinuous, followed by black and 

 white dashes on veins ; submarginal line double, brown filled in with paler, 

 hardly bent, preceded by a chocolate brown costal shade; stigmata all large, grey 

 with paler annnli and brown outlines, the claviform reaching to be\-ond orbicular, 

 and the reniform produced inwards along median vein ; fringe brown and grey, 

 with a bright rufous white basal line ; costal elge pale greenish ochreous for 

 three-fourths. 



Hindwing : fuscous grey, dark before termen ; fringe white, tinged with rufous. 



Underside blackish grey ; costa of both wings and termen of forewing 

 broadly brick-red. 



