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2. Poliana leucomelas sp. nov. (text-figs. 4, 5, 6 and PI. 20. fiu;. 1 ). 



(?. Corpore snpra brnnneo, albo-macnlato, infra pro maxima parte albo, 

 thorace sine linea nigra dorsali laterali. Alis anticis nigro- et albo-varicgatis, area 

 mediana costali nigrina in medio ad raarginem exteriorem extensa ; posticis uigro- 

 brunneis, ad angalnm analem et marginein abdomiiialem albo-sigiiatis. 



Long. al. ant. (56 mm. 



Hnb. Pnom Penh, Cambodia, 1 <J a dom. FT. Donckier rec. 



Nearest to P. huchholn Pl5tz (1880), from W. Africa, larger, forewing more 

 elongate, with the white area placed proximally to the black apical costal area 

 larger and extended ontward to the snbmarginal spots ; behind this white patch the 

 blackish median area, in which the white stigma is sitnated, is likewise produced to 

 the onter-marginal black spots ; the hindmarginal area of the forewing, moreover. 



Figs. i-fj. —Pt'liaiKi JeK('otiieI<is, genitalia. 

 is more extended white than in hnchhol^i. The genitalia are especially different in 

 the harpe. 



Scaling of antenna dark brown, grey at the base. Upperside of body dark 

 brown, variegated with dispersed paler hair-scales ; a white spot extends from 

 before the antenna on each side of the head on to the pronotnm ; mesonotnm 

 without black lateral line, metanotnm with a black doable tnft edged with white 

 and ochraceons ; abdomen (rather worn) appears to bear two dorsal rows of white 

 dots and at the sides a row of blackish patches partly edged with white. First 

 segment of palpns and base of second greyish white. Breast white, brown near the 

 wings, femora nearly quite white, also tlie liindtibia, midtibia brown with white ring 

 in centre and at apex, tarsi brown, the segments tipped with white (forelegs 

 missing, with the exception of one forefemur), tibial spur and underside of first 

 hindtarsal segment white. 



For pattern of forewing, above, cf figure. Hindwing brown, fringe spotted 



