308 NOTITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXIV. 1917. 



Rook Island, July — ^August 1913 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



A. parvimacula Warr. (Nov. Zool. iii. 293), described from Fergusson and 

 the Trobriand Islands, shows decided tendencies to geographical variations, 

 but — as with Nohilia turbata — the majority are not sufficient)}' sharp to 

 merit names. The island forms (Obi Major, Key Islands. Trobriands, Rook, 

 Louisiades) are in general rather smaller than those from the mainland of New 

 Guinea, the easterly forms also in general more strongly suffused with purple. 

 On the mainland the spots are generally larger than in the Trobriand tj'pe, en 

 St. Aignan, Rossel, and Sudest Island smaller, with some aberrations approach- 

 ing p. privativa, especially in the median area, but always with a strongly deve- 

 loped subbasal green spot persisting between M and 8M'. The Australian form 

 (divisaria Turn., Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, xxxii. 676, nee Walk.) 

 does not seem to differ from that of New Guinea. 



38. Antitrygodes subaeciualis spec. nov. 



cJ, 36 mm. Face black, in places mixed with reddish. Palpus pale, mixed 

 (except beneath) with blackish. Crown and base of antenna whitish ; occiput 

 narrowly black. Antennal ciliation little longer than diameter of shaft. Collar 

 reddish brown. Thorax and abdomen whitish, tegula with a few reddish scales. 



Forewing with SC and stalk of SC— ' connate from apex of areole ; whitish, 

 with fine and very sparse dark irroration, here and there also a few oUve-green 

 or reddish scales ; a rather small olive-green subbasal spot between M and 

 SM' ; a tripartite green median band from subcostal region to just across SM% 

 anteriorly nearly 4 mm. wide, posteriorly little less, the element in the cell 

 rounder than in divisaria, that bej'ond it less produced distally than in that 

 species, the two rather broadly separated by the pale discal mark, the posterior 

 element slightly produced distally along SM', anteriorly confluent mth the 

 others distally (about M'), separated proximaUy by a projection of the ground- 

 colour at the fork of M and M- ; a slender, strongly curved, faintly waved, 

 light brown line from just beyond two-thirds costa to five-sixths hindmargin ; 

 four olive subapical spots between SC and R', the last small, confluent with 

 the preceding one into an angulated mark on R^ pointing to and rather 

 closely approaching the termen ; rather faint brownish subterminal fines 

 traceable except near costa, becoming bright rust brown at tornus, to which 

 the proximal runs, while the distal terminates on the distal margin itself ; 

 terminal line brown, shghtly thickened between the veins ; fringe white, 

 tinged with pink at tornus, traversed in the middle by some very feeble 



brown dusting and with traces of spots opposite the veins. Hindwing 



not very deeply dentate ; base whitish, with sUght speckles ; median green 

 spots similar to those of forewing, the one beyond the cell pointed at its 

 hinder end, the posterior one boot-shaped ; some short orange-butt vein-dashes 

 beyond these spots ; a grey postmedian line about as in agrata Feld. ; two sub- 

 marginal brown Unes, the red-brown mark on the proximal (from apex to R*) 

 rather thicker anteriorly than in divisaria, the triangular ending, on the other 

 hand, scarcely as large ; terminal line and fringe as on forewing. 



Underside similar to that of parvimacula Warr., the greenish median bands 

 more discernible and broader, containing rather distinct whitish cell-marks 

 the outer band of the hindwing receding much more from the distal margin, 



