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and blotches from inner niargin beyond middle towards apex, becoming obsolete in 

 the middle of the wing; hindinargin more thickly suffused with fuscous-orange and 

 dusted with purplish dots, forming blotches between the veins; purplish dots are also 

 scattered along all the veins; a deep purplish rather large round spot on the radial 

 towards hindmargiu, from which an indistinct submarginal band can be traced to anal 

 angle, formed of orange blotches with purple scales on them; a row of purplish spots 

 along hindmargiu between the veins ; fringe jiurplish grey. 



Jlindunngs : like forewings in colour, with the oblique line of forewings produced 

 more distinctly as a central fascia marked with [uirple below costa ; a purple sjjot on 

 costa near apex, \vith two or three smaller ones in a line below it. 



Thorax yellow; abdomen yellow, spotted with orange and purplish ; vertex yellow, 

 with bright red dots; face and palpi red above, yellow below; antennae reddish. 

 Underside yellow, with the spots and lines deei) purplish and much more strongly' 

 marked than above. 



Expanse of wings : 68 mm. 



One J from Fergusson Island, October. 



Related to E. obliquifascia Warr., from Amboina. 



Subfamily PSEUDOTERPNINAE. 



27. Actenochroma (?) caesia sp. nov. 



ForeiovMjs : slate-colour, the lines black-edged, with greenish yellow scales; two 

 short cm-ved lines close to base ; inner line at one-third, outer at two-thirds, and the 

 submarginal line, all black, denticulate, and wavy, starting from large black costal 

 spots ; discal ocellus large and black, with a black costal blotch above it ; an 

 interrujited crenulate black line before hindmargiu ; fringe slate-colour, mottled with 

 darker; the whole wing is thickly mottled with dark spots, mixed with a few yellowish 

 green scales. 



HindiL'intjs : like forewings. 



Thorax and patagia slate-colour, with a black Line across the fi-out ; abdomen paler, 

 with two black rings at base and black blotches along the back; head and palpi slate- 

 colour, dotted with blackish. Underside bluish slate-colour; the outer line and a 

 diffuse submarginal fascia black; forewings with large black cell-spot, hiudwings with 

 a small one ; costa of forewings ochreous, spotted with black. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



One 5 from Fergusson Island, December. 



A very distinct species. 



28. Actenochroma (?) prasina sp. nov. 

 F(yrewinrjs : green, slightly sjieckled with darker; co.sta with dark striae; a small 

 dark basal patch margined with blackish and dull red ; first and .second lines blackish, 

 irregularly dentate, widely separate on costa and approaching eacli other on inner 

 margin, the second elbowed at vein 4 ; enclosing in the c? a dark liver-coloured 

 fascia, mottled with fuscous and red towards the first line ; in the J the .space remains 

 green, with reddish mottlings along costa and a few specks along the lines; discal dot 

 black, distinct in 5 , obscured in S ; submarginal reddish fuscous, denticulate, starting 

 from a large costal blotch ; space beyond more or less clouded with darker in y , but 

 almost entirely green in cJ ; fringe mottled green and reddish, witli a more or less 

 continuous dark crenulate line at base. 



