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SOME NEW ERYCINIDAE FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



By Dr. K. JORDAN. 



n^HE following Erycinidae were discovered by A. S. Meek in the Suow Mountains 

 -*- of Dntch New Guinea : 



1- Abisara eromena spec. nov. 



Sexns valde diversi. S : palpis, coxis anticis atque abdomine anrantiis, thorace 

 supra fulvo subtus nigro, capite nigro, fronte albo bivittata. Alis sujira aurantiis 

 nigro marginatis ; subtus nigris fascia pallide anrantia ornatis, postiuis punctis 

 submarginalibns albis. ? nigra, palpis anrantiis, fronte albo bivittata, ab- 

 domine subtus luteo-albo, alis anticis fascia obliqua mediana abbreviata alba, 

 jiosticis area central! snbrotunda alba postice flavescente notatis ; subtus eodem 

 colore, signaturis albis parum magis e.'stensis, alis posticis punctis albis in duplies 

 serie. 



Length of forewing : cJ 28 mm., ? 30 mm. 



S. The eyes are bordered with white in front and behind, and there is a 

 white dot behind each antenna. The anterior margin of the frons is orange, the 

 forelegs are washed with orange on the inside, and there is also some orange at 

 the knees of tlie other legs. The underside of the abdomen is paler than the 

 upper. The black costal border of the forewing does not enter the cell ; the 

 black apical area occupies more than one-third of the wing, measuring 12 mm. 

 at the upper radial vein ; the black border very strongly narrows behind, being 

 only 2 mm. wide at the lower median, and extends a little along the hind- 

 margin ; the base is shghtly shaded with olivaceous tawny on both wings. 



The bindwing is more rounded than in the c? tJ of the allied species, somewhat 

 resembling in shape the hindwing of a ? ; the outer margin is slightly undulate. 

 The black distal border measures :i mm. in width before the centre, and 4 mm. 

 at the lower median ; it continues along the costal margin to the base, this 

 costal border having a breadth of 3-5 mm. throughout, while it is narrowed to 

 a point at the abdominal margin, the extreme edge of this margin being black 

 to the base. 



On the underside the oblique median baud of the forewing, which corresponds 

 to the outer portion of the orange area of the upperside, is buff, with a deeper 

 orange shade at the edges ; the band measures 4 mm. anteriorly, mm. at M' 

 (measured at right angles to the inner edge of the band), and posteriorly curves 



towards the hind margin, which it does not quite reach. The band of the 



hindwing is orange, being slightly streaked with orange-buff, and mnch wider 

 than that of the forewing, being 6 mm. broad in front, and 9-5 behind ; it 

 extends close to the abdominal margin, but anteriorly does not reach (o K-, it 

 also does not touch the cell; there are four white submarginal dots. 



?. The head is as in the J, but the anterior edge of the frons is not 

 orange. The underside of the abdomen is dirty white, the tip being slightly 



