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CHALCOSIIDAE. 



30. Histia nivosa l\othscli. sj). nov. 



Male. — Upperside: foi-ewings white, costa and apical area brownish black; the 

 latter 8 millimetres wide at apex, and running to a point at the submedian vein 

 above the inner angle. Median nervure al.'-o black, llindwing^ wliitc. outer margin 

 black. 



Underside same as above, but costal margin of hindwiiigs also black. 



Antennae black, head red, collar same, with black dot on cacli side. Thorax 

 beneath and abdomen red, the latter with five series of black spots. 



Female. — Onlv differs from rattle, in that flie black of ajiical area does not reacli 

 the apex of cell. 



Shape as in //. seleiie KoUar, but wings shorter and blunter. 



Hah. Kina l?alu, N. Borneo (obtained from Messrs. Staudinger it Bang-Haas) ; 

 1 (?,1 ?. W. K. 



:>!. Cauerkes javanicus Kothsch. sp. nov. 



Male. — Differs form C. eiischemoides ]\Ioore in the borders to the nervures being 

 violet instead of metallic blue-gi-een, in the transverse yellow band being split up 

 into spots and not joined to the basal yellow area, in the white spots of the apical 

 half of forewings being much smaller, and in the yellow of lioth pairs of wings being 

 orange-ochraceous. 



Hnb. Mount (iede, Java (Fruhstorfer, August 1892, 4000 feet); 1 ti. A\'. li. 



32. Isbarta pandemia Kothsch. sp. nov. 



Female. — Upperside: forewings straw-white at liasal half, with veins marked 

 lilack. Apical half black, with veins picked out in dull steel-blue. One-fifth from 

 the apex is a transverse row of almost obliterated grey spots between the nervures ; this 

 row curves inwards, so that at inner angle the distance from margin is least. There 

 is also a white patch between the two lower median nervures. llindwiugs — basal 

 fourth lavender-grey, with red of underside shining through ; rest of wing smoky 

 black, with a large creamy discal patch shading ofi" into primrose-yellow, and reaching 

 from abdominal margin, where it is 10 millimetres wide, to the subcostal vein, and 

 shading off into liasal grey area. 



Underside: forewings black, with steel-blue gloss on veins, a large creamy patch 

 in cell, two beyond it, and one between the two submedian veins. The transverse 

 row of subapical spots white, and much more distinct than above. Hindwings black, 

 with veins and apex steel-blue; a large triangular basal patch of red extends from 

 the abdominal margin to the middle vein of cell. A primrose-yellow spot in apex 

 of cell, and two sulaapical ones. A large triangular primrose patch reaches from 

 abdominal margin, where it is widest, to vein 5, towards which it rapidly diminishes; 

 in its anterior part it is cut up into spots by the black veins. 



Body above pale steel-blue, abdomen beneath greyish white. 



Another ferarde has the forewings in basal half nearlj' glaucous, I lie creamy 

 white scaling having almost vanished. 



Expanse : forewing A.M 33 mm. : K.M 19 mm. ; I'.M 2.3 nim, 

 hindwing „ 2.5 „ ; „ 20 ,. ; „ 19 ,. 



