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Underside dull ocbreous yellow, with all tlie markings showing through in- 

 distinctly ; forewings with a line of vein-dots beyond outer line, as in hindwings, but 

 less strongly outcurved. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish oi^ange ; face and collar 

 brighter. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One <S from Humboldt ]5ay, Xew Guinea, October, taken by \V. Doherty. 



206. Hyposidra maculipennis sp. nov. 



Forewiiuja: pale fawn-colour, slightly rufous-tinged in parts, and dusted with 

 blackish atoms ; a small dark cell-spot ; a straight oblique rufous line from middle 

 of costa to middle of inner margin ; outer line very faint, wavy, and joining central 

 line on inner margin ; a macular submarginal shade of purple blotches, one on costa, 

 another opjjosite the cell, and a large one at anal angle ; a dark blotch on costa before 

 apex ; fringe concolorous. The bindmargin is bluntly rounded and protuberant, with 

 slight projections at the veins, from apex to lower radial, thence obliquelv curved. 



Hindwim/s: with large round black ce\]-si>ot, preceded by the straight line and 

 followed by a denticulate line nearly in the middle ; the blotches of the submarginal 

 line distinct on the inner half, faint towards apex ; fringe concolorous ; bindmargin 

 strongly waved, with a blunt projection in middle. 



Underside much darker, suffused and sjjeckled with fuscous ; face and palpi 

 fuscous ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 84 mm. 



One S from the Solomon Islands (Capt. Cayley Webster). 



207. Hyposidra nigricosta sp. nov. 



Foreivings : brownish ocbreous, speckled with black; costa brown, mottled with 

 pale ocbreous ; a broad subcostal black-brown stripe with indented lower edge, 

 running through to apex and traversed by the pale submarginal line ; the lines rich 

 brown, first curved from costa at one-fourth to inner margin near base ; discal spot 

 blackish, lying in the broadest part of the subcostal strijie ; a nearly straight brown 

 central line to inner margin in middle; a dark brown wavy and dentate outer line 

 from costa at three-fourths to inner margin just beyond central line, followed beneath 

 costa by another brown line ; submarginal line indistinct ; a brownish cloud at anal 

 angle ; fringe brown. 



Hindtvings : dark brown, witli a strongly dentate postmedian line, pale with 

 dark edges ; discal spot black ; fringe dark brown. 



Underside dark black-brown, becoming paler brown towards the margin ; all the 

 lines dark. 



Expanse of wings : fiO mm. 



One cJ from Batcbian, March 1892, collected by Uoberty. 



Akin to injixnria Wlk., tmt much larger. 



208. Hyposidra variabilis Warr. ab. tetraspila 



nov. 



Among several examples of this species from Humlxjldt Bay of Uoberty's collect- 

 ing, there occur two forms so strikingly different as to deserve describing. The form 

 which I call tetraspila is of a rich pinkish fawn-colour ; the inner and outer lines are 



