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36. Eumelea aurigenaria sp. nov. 



d. Forewings : olive-yellow, with dense rosy striae, and with the three lines 

 rosy ; first and second curved, at one-third and one-half, approximating below ; 

 snbmarginal shade broad, diiFase, to before anal angle, and becoming obsolescent 

 towards costa ; a distinct oval ocellus on discocellnlar ; fringe yellow, with a deep 

 rosy line at base, and a rosy line at middle. 



Hindwings : the same, without first line ; the shade very broad at apex ; ocellus 

 present. 



Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, speckled with rosy ; 

 shoulders and collar all rosj'. 



¥ . Forewings : yellow, with rusty striae, those along the costa only being 

 purplish ; the lines rusty purple ; first at one-fourth, interrupted ; second a little 

 beyond the middle, subcrenulate ; the distance between these two lines therefore 

 much greater than in the c?, the ocellus being exactly half-way between them, 

 whereas in the i it is nearer to the central line ; submargiual shade much narrower, 

 projecting prominently outwards beyond cell ; marginal line of dark brown-red 

 shallow lunules; fringe as in $. 



Ilindtcings : with the central line distinctly crenulate ; the snbmarginal 

 indistinct. 



Underside with the striae and all markings rosy. 



Exjiause of wings : 52 mm. 



One cj, one ?, from Lombok, June 1896 (Everett). 



For some time past there has been in the Tring Museum a number of examples 

 of this form, from Queensland, marked aurigeiuiria. As I have quite ftiiied to find 

 any trace of such a published species, I am inclined to think it may have been an 

 error for aureliata, of which it might be considered a form. It differs, however, 

 from typical aureliata in the uniformly smaller size, the absence of the marginal 

 blotches in the ¥ , in the yellower fringe, and in the presence of a distinct ocellus 

 in both wings. Moreover, it occurs, besides Australia, in Borneo (Kina Balu), Nias, 

 Oinainisa (Timor), Perak (Gunong Ijau), and Lombok, and is therefore almost as 

 widespread as aureliata itself, of whicli it cannot be reckoned a subspecies or local 

 form. 



37. Eumelea rosalia Cram., Pap. Ex. IV. p. 152. PI. 36ii. Fig. F. 



1 have lately seen three S S from Tawaya, Palos Bay, taken by Doherty, which 

 answer precisely to Cramer's figure, which need not therefore be any longer looked 

 upon as inexact. Pagenstecher also mentions {Jahrh. Nass. Ver. XXXIX. lisSO. 

 p. 155) some specimens from the Kei Islands as identical with the typical 

 Amboiua form. 



38. Ozola basisparsata AVlk. 



Forewings : fawn-coloiu', with a decided pink flush ; thickly sprinkled with 

 darker atoms ; first line very obscure, angled in cell and formed of spots between 

 the veins ; second at two-thirds, curved l)elow costa, then iierfectly straight and 

 slender to four-fifths of inner margin ; beyond its upper half a curved line of small 

 spots is faintly visible ; submargiual line formed of spots, the tour uppermost ones 

 largest, the fourth reaching the margin : a row of minute marginal dots ; fringe 

 rufous, brown-tinged along the excision and above anal angle ; cell-spot small. 



