NOVITATES ZOOLOGIOAE XXIF. 1015. 401 



176. Ocybadistes mamas (Feld.) 



Pamphila marnasFelder, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wie7i, Math. Nat. Cl.x\. p.462. No.53(1860)(Amboiiia). 



This insect is very variable in size and extent of the orange markings. Vulcan 

 and Dampier have a number of much larger individuals than any from Blanns, 

 though many of the others are as small as any from the latter place. There is, 

 moreover, only one damaged ? from Manns. 



10 (J(?, 3 ? ?, Dampier Island; 1 d S , 1 ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands ; 3 cjcj, 

 Vnlcau Island. 



177. Telicota megathymoides sp. nov. 



The ? resembles the American genus me(/at/i'/mus. 



cJ. Above. Antennae black with very faint indications of orange rings ; head, 

 frons orange mixed with olive and with black transverse bars, vertex olive mixed 

 with orange hairs ; thorax and first two abdominal segments deep brown densely 

 clothed with orange olivaceous hairs, rest of abdomen deep brown ringed with 

 orange. Forewing blackish chocolate-brown, basal third of costal area, cell and 

 basal third below median vein orange streaked with brown, and with nervnres 

 brown; basal half below vein 1, three large postmedian patches above veins 1, 2, 

 3, and five smaller spots between vein 4 and costa orange. Fringe from apex to 

 vein 3 deep brown, orange from vein 3 to toruus. Hindwing blackish chocolate- 

 brown, basal and abdominal areas clothed with orange hairs ; an oblique postmedian 

 band from vein 1 to vein orange ; fringe orange. 



Below. Antennae black, with segmental wings and basal half of club orange ; 

 head and palpi golden buff; pectus orange ; abdomen ringed dark brown and 

 orange. Forewing sooty black, costal and cellular area, and apical third dull 

 orange, bands and spots as above bright orange. Hindwing dull orange with dark 

 brown nervures, a spot in cell and postmedian band brighter orange, edged with 

 dark brown. 



¥. Above. Similar, but with less orange in cell and basal third of forewing 

 above. 



Below. Dull orange of forewing ;iiuch suffused with rufous. Hindwing has 

 dull orange replaced by purplish rusty rufous. 



Length of forewing : (5' 21 mm., ? 24 mm. 



Expanse : <? 48 mm., ? 55 mm. 



3 c?c?, 4 ? ?, Vulcan Island ; 2, 3 3 , Dampier Island (Type S Vulcan). 



178. Telicota moseleyi (Butl.) 



Pamph/la moseleyi Butler, Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist, (o) xiii. p. 108, No. 50 (1884) (K^ Dulan). 



? . Above. Differs from megathymoides on forewing in the orange-yellow of 

 cell and the wide yellow costal area which reaches almost to the upper spots 

 of postmedian band and in all spots and bands being paler and wider. On hind- 

 wing the basal area is clothed with yellow hairs and the postmedian band is much 

 paler and wider. 



Below. Much paler dull orange and golden yellow, and the bands are wider 

 and a sooty patch above tornus of hindwing. 



