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claviform stigma ; orbicular obscure, oblifjiie with some fine yellow scales round it 

 ringed witb black ; reDiform large, 8-shaped, its upper half iudicated only by yellow 

 lines and ]iale dots edged by black ; its lower half with a round white spot ringed 

 with black, followed by two white dots and witli a yellow curved line below ; outer 

 line black, lunulate-dentate, the hinulo-i filled up with yellow; snbterminal line 

 formed of irregular patches of yellow scales preceded by black wedge-shaped marks, 

 the spots oil each side of vein 3 dotlike ; a row of yellow dots just before termen 

 between the veins, and a row at base of fringe at the end of the veins. 



lliiulwing : olive fuscous, the basal half in $ paler with dark veins ; a row of 

 pale luiiular spots before termen ; fringe rufous ochreons. 



Underside glossy olive grey in forewing, with the outer and snbterminal lines 

 pale, the space between them darker ; fringe rufous ; hiudwing dull whitish, liroadly 

 speckled with rufous olive along costa and termen, with a fuscous terminal band 

 and outer line, not reaching inner margin. 



Head, inside of palpi, base of shoulders, the jirothoracic and metatlioracic tufts, 

 and the basal tufts on dorsum dull brick-r(Ml ; palpi externally, a bar across face, 

 the ujiper half of shoulders and the patagia blai^k ; dorsum fuscous with the tufts 

 black; anal tufts beneath ochreons and deep yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 ? from Amboyna, February 1892 (Doherty) ; 1 ? from Fergusson Island, 

 December isOo (Meek) : 2 ? ? from St. Aignan, November 1897 (Meek) ; 1 ¥ from 

 Great Kei, March 1897 (Doherty) ; 2 ? ? from Kei, November 1895 (Kilhn); 

 2 ? ? from Geraldton, Cairns, Queensland (Meek); 1 c?, 1 ¥ (type) from Ninay 

 Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, December 1908 to January 19o9. 



07. Prospalta subhicens spec. nov. 



Forewing : greenish fuscous on a pinkish ochreons ground, which shows only 

 along the course of the lines and slightly along inner margin ; lines double, blackish, 

 containing an ochreons spot on costa ; inner line obliipie, angled outwards below 

 vein 1 ; outer line bent outwards below costa, dentate-lunulate, incurved from 

 4 to 2 ; snbterminal formed of ochreous lunules, preceded by black wedge-shaped 

 marks, and followed by narrower ones, each ending in a pale dot before termen ; 

 median shade distinct, bent in middle, zigzag above inner margin ; (davifonn stigma 

 obscure, narrow, with dilfuse dark edges ; orbicular short and broad, with its lateral 

 edges first pale, then Idack ; reniform large, 8-shaped, ochreous tinged with dark, 

 edged with black, and containing within it in outline another figure of 8 ; a terminal 

 series of dark pale-tipped sjiots ; fringe brown with dark crenulate line near base. 



Rhidwini/: whitish with broad fuscous terminal border and black lunulate 

 terminal line ; the fringe whitish ; veins and cell-spot dark. 



Underside shining whitish tinged with grey ; costa ochreous dusted with 

 greenish grey ; a grey cell-spot, outer line, and broad submarginal hand, which on 

 costa of forewing is black with a ])alc spot in middU'. 



Head and thora.K greenish I'uscons ; the aliiliinicu grey ; pectus and legs grey 

 speckled with jiale ; the tarsi blackish with the joints jiale. 



Expanse of wings : 34 — 38 mm. 



1 ¥ from Ganjam (Coll. Elwes) ; 1 S from Madras, March 1897 : 1 c? from 

 Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea, July (Wahnes); 1 S, Burdekin River, Queens- 

 laud (Simsou) (type). The green tinge is very much more pronounced in the 

 single ? than in any of the rJcJ. 



