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Underside reddish, thickly mottled with blackish ; the two outer lines and cell- 

 sjwts blackish. Pali)i, face, and forelegs bright red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 pale grey, with dark atoms ; collar dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One c? from Toowoomba, Queensland. 



SvBiAMiLY OKTHOSTIXIXAE. 



50. Bociraza latiflava sp. nov. 



Fwewinga: golden yellow; the costa narrowly black at base, the streak thicken- 

 ing to the middle ; a broad black fascia from the middle of costa to anal angle, its 

 inner edge curved, its outer edge nearly straight ; apex and liindmurgin black, 

 leaving a broad yellow fascia from costa to near hindmargin ; fringe black. 



Hindtdngs: yellow, with black marginal fascia from anal angle to apex, where 

 it is wider. 



Underside the same. Palpi yellow, externally fuscous ; face and vertex yellow, 

 sometimes tinged with grey ; collar fuscous ; thorax and abdoim-n yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 30 — 42 mm. 



Two c?c?,two ? ?,from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, October 1892 (W. Koherty). 



51. Celerena triflava sp. nov. 



Fareii-'ings: yellow, with the costa black from base to middle, whence a black 

 bar runs at right angles towards anal angle, which it does not quite reach ; tiie costal 

 streak and the cross-bar both diffusely edged internally; hindmargin from anal angle 

 narrowly black, the inner edge waved, and bent above third median to costa at two- 

 thirds ; the apical black area so formed contains an oblique yellowish blotch ; fringe 

 black. 



Hindwings : yellow, with narrow black border with wa\y edge. 



Underside the same, except that the cross-bar of forewings is much broader tlian 

 above, angled outwards in the suhmedian interspace and joined along inner margin 

 with the marginal border. Face, thorax, and abdomen yellow ; palpi black ; collar 

 fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 64 mm. 



One ? from Biak, Ueelvink Bay, New (Kiinea, collected by Dolierty. 



52. Eumelea degeuer N\'an-., ab. umbrata nov. 



In this form the space between the outer line and the row of submarginal siiots 

 is wholly clouded with brown in the forewings of the ?, the spots themselves becom- 

 ing absorbed ; in the hindwings the brown shade does not reach the si)ots ; in one ? 

 the yellow ground-colour of the entire wing is suffu.sed with pale brown. 



In the S the whole of the wings is thickly suft'used with brown and covered with 

 fuscous striae, the markings being rendered indistinct; the underside yellower, with 

 dark purple fuscous mott lings and markings. 



Three cj c?, one ? , from Lifu. 



