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terminal, more rarely both, deeper red or brownish red ; lines marked by black vein- 

 dots, those of the inner line sometimes connected by a grey thread ; orbicular stigma 

 a white dot; reuiform conspicuous; the inner edge consisting of a narrow black 

 crescent with gre} scales preceded by five velvety red-brown or black-brown spots ; 

 the onter edge also of five spots, the two between veins 5 and 6 confluent ; joined at 

 the inner lower end by an oblique black bar from costa, representing the upper part 

 of median shade ; submarginal line inconspicuous, slightly paler with darker edges ; 

 apex always pale ; tlie whole wing is covered with faint elongate striae of dull olive 

 scales mixed with black atoms ; fringe concolorons, with a bright pale line at base 

 beyond a row of dark terminal dots. 



Hindwing : dull greenish fuscous, the costal area above vein G and the terminal 

 area dull pink ; the fringe pinkish grey, beyond black terminal spots. 



Underside of forewing dee]) ]iiiik with the costal and terminal margins ochreous ; 

 of hindwing ochreons with the costal and terminal margins reddish speckled with 

 dark. 



Head and thorax concolorous with forewing, the dorsum always greyer, but 

 laterally pinkish ; palpi externally, except terminal segment, deep red-brown or 

 blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 5U — 58 mm. 



7 c^fT, five from Biagi, Mauiliare River, British New CJuiuea, 5000 ft., April 

 1906 (type), and two from the Upper Aroa River, April 1903 (A. S. Meek). 



Of this species, separable at once by the deep pink margins of hindwing from 

 T. plagiata Wlk. — which species also occurs in New Guinea — three quite distinct 

 al)erratious come from the same locality. 



The first — ab. grisesceiis ab. nov. — has the whole forewing olive grey, with the 

 costal edge whitish and dotted with black ; the lines less distinct, except the teeth 

 of the outer line ; the reniform stigma and costal bar equally obscured ; the hindwing 

 with the fuscous and jiink areas both darker and more contrasted. 



(JcJ, 1 ? of this form from Biagi, all slightly smaller than the typical form. 



The second — ab. palUdistigma ab. nov. — is larger than the type form, the fore- 

 wing suffused with deeper red and darkened by olive-fuscous striations and black 

 atoms ; the dots of the lines accompanied by dark shades ; the median shade dark and 

 diffuse throughout, tiie upper arm not forming a black bar ; reniform stigma filled 

 up with whitish ochreous more or less mixed with grey and outlined with didl red- 

 brown ; the subterminal line paler and more conspicuous ; the whole underside 

 deeper red. 



5 cJcJ, 1 ? from Biagi ; the single ¥ smaller and duller than the <S S ■ 



The third — ab. venata ab. nov. — is a development of the last, being darker, 

 owing to the greater intensity of the olive-fuscous striations ; the median area and the 

 terminal as well is deeper than the rest of the wing ; the subterminal line standing 

 out finer and jjaler ; the centre of the reniform stigma darker grey, while the 

 median shade is sometimes continuous across wing, at others confined to the dark 

 costal portion ; the veins, especially towards termen, are finely whitish. 



2 c? J, 1 ? from Biagi, and 1 ? , smaller and paler, from the Upper Aroa River. 



Genus Hypopteridia gen. nov. 



Differs from Dasijgaster Guen. in the abdomen of the <S being elongate, with 

 the anal and praeanal segments clothed with very long tufts of hair, and without the 

 shaggy lateral tufts which distinguish that genus; while the thorax lieneath bears 



