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48. Eumelea albimacula sp, uov. 



Forewings : brown-black ; costa towards base dotted with wliite ; an oblong 

 irregularly dentate-edged blotch beyond the cell from vein 7 towards anal angle ; two 

 small white triangular spots on inner margin before the anal angle ; fringe black ; 

 cell-spol deep black. 



Hindwinijs : with the white blotch broader, its edges more regularly crenulate, 

 touching the inner margin, and containing the black cell-spot. 



Underside rather paler. Face and palpi (damaged) tinged with fulvous, 

 probably when fresh wholly fulvous ; vertex and collar fulvous ; thorax and abdomen 

 black ; a small fulvous spot at base of forewings and side of thorax ; legs grey ; fore 

 tibiae fulvous ; tuft of hind tibiae pale. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One c? from Obi, Moluccas, May 1802 (W. Doherty). 



This unusually coloured species is, of course, nearest to E. algidaria Wlk. from 

 My.sol. 



The forewings are decidedly narrow, the apical portion much produced ; hiud- 

 margin very oblique, slightly bent at vein 6 and incurved before anal angle. 



49. Eumelea ludovicata cupreata subsp. nov. 



6. Fwewings : wholly suffused with rich coppery fulvous, with thick purplish 

 fuscous or olive-fuscous dots and striae; costa purplish, dotted with black ; the lines 

 pui-plisb fuscous; first line curved, at one-third, consisting of a costal spot and a 

 spot on submedian fold ; second from middle of costa, excurved round cell, and also 

 marked by a round spot on submedian fold ; submarginal shade nearly straight, 

 diffuse ; an obscure fuscous annulus on discocellular ; fringe dark. 



Hindii'ings : with the lines distinct only towards costa ; apex slightly paler, in 

 only one example j-ellowish. 



Underside yellow ; the forewings suffused with fulvous, and spotted and blotched 

 with brown-red ; the costa and submarginal shade prominently brown ; hindwings 

 with all the spots and blotches tinged with rosy. 



S. Exactly like the S of the form rahrifiisa from Dili, Timor, except tliat 

 the spot at base of middle line on inner margin of forewings, and the eorre.sponding 

 spot on costa of hindwings, are larger and round. 



Seven c? cf , three ? ? , from Tenimber, July 1892 (W. Doherty). 



Intei-esting as showing the local variation, confined almost wholly to the c?c?. 

 These from Tenimber have lost all trace of the yellow blotches which are the special 

 characteristic o{ ludovicata Guen. in the various c? -forms. 



50. Eumelea sanguinata australiensis subsp. nov. 



Differs from the type {sanguinata Warr.) in being about two-thirds the size and 

 less vividly red ; apex of hindwings sometimes narrowly yellow. 



Several examples from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, and Geraldton (A. S. Meek). 

 The ? ? in this species are as red as the cJ c?. 



•"il. Eumelea semirosea sp. nov. 



Forewings: olive-fulvous, with rosy transverse striae; the costa yellow, with 

 purple-fuscous striae ; discal ocellus bright rosy ; a curved thick deep ro.sy line at 



