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forewings, in the broader and blacker transverse bands, and in the larger and 

 more distinct stigma. 



?. Differs from the ? of r. rubresciis'm its paler ground-colour, in the safl'ron- 

 yeUow costal area and more yellow basal two-fifths of forewings, and in the 

 less distinct and partly obsolete postdiscal bands of yellow wedge-shaped and 

 lunate spots. 



Habitat. Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, December 1896 (W. Doherty), 1 (J, 1 §. 



Cotana rubrescens oetakwensis subsp. ncv. 



(J. Differs from cj of r. rubrescens in the bright cinnamon-orange colour of 

 the forewings, in the very strongly marked and large stigma, and in the very 

 broad heavy transverse median bands, both stigma and bands being of intense 

 velvety black. 



Habitat. Nr. Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, 2,500 

 ft., October to December 1910 (A. S. Meek), 2 S6- 



Cotana germana sp. nov. 



(J. This species is very closely allied to rubrescens in the 3 and to joiceyi 

 in the ?. 



Differs from rubrescens o in the paler less chestnut-brown of the forewings 

 and in the much thinner and less strongly marked transverse bands ; in the 

 much paler and almost patternless hindwings. The transverse band of the 

 forewing is also more concavely curved. 



?. Antennae black ; head orange ; thorax chestnut-brown ; abdomen 

 rufous orange, anal tuft whitish grey. 



Forewing liver-chestnut ; a white spot below median in basal one-third of 

 wing, a median slightly sinuate darker band, nervures and marginal line yellow, 

 a postdiscal coalesccnt band of intranervular white wedge-shaped patches 

 truncated distad. Hindwing similar in ground-colour, but band of white patches 

 lunate. 



Habitat. Area River, British New Guinea, March 1905 (A. S. Meek), 3 JJ, 1 $, 



Cotana calliloma (Turner). 

 Uypercydas calliloma Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. vol. xxvii. p. 23. (1902-3) (Queensland). 



Of this species the only specimen hitherto recorded in Europe is the $ in the 

 Tring Museum from the Barnard collection from Barnard Islands bred Decem- 

 ber 29th, 1891 ; as all those attributed to this species from New Guinea are 

 not the same. 



Cotana dubia (B. Baker). 



Nermcompressa dubia Bethune Baker (J, Novit. Zool. vol. xi. p. 391. No. 55. pi. iv. t. 19. (1904) 



(Dinawa). 

 Hypercydas doricrana Bethune Baker ?, Novit. Zool. vol; xv. p. 176. No. 2. (1908) (Aroa River). 



Habitat. Aroa River, British New Guinea, November 1904 to February 

 1905 (A. S. Meek), 7 (J (J, 9 $? ; Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch 

 New Guinea, 3,000 ft., September 1910 (A. S. Meek), 11 <J<J, 3 ??; Base Camp, 

 Utakwa River, Dutch New Guinea, November 1912 (A. F. R. Wollaston), 2 <?<?; 

 Milne Bay, S.E. British New Guinea, November 1898 (A. S. Meek), 3 ??. 



