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row contains four smaller white spots, the middle two, and the lower one only ;■ 

 fringe of the inner margin full and pale. 



Underside duller ; the costa of forewings with an oblique black blotch nearly 

 reaching the hyaline blotch. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; pectus and 

 legs excessively hairy. Palpi very long, straight, porrect upwards. 



Expanse of wings : t?() mm. 



Two (?c? from Milue Bay, British New Guinea, December l>i9S — January 1899 

 (A. S. Meek). 



A remarkable develojjment of the typical form of the genus. 



13. Pharambara commanotata sp. nov. 



Forewinys : dull brownish grey, with obscure reticulations and markings : the 

 costa marked with dull brown spots differing in size ; the fasciae pale brownish ; 

 first at one-third, broad in the cell, below the median inclined towards base ; second 

 about middle, obscure, broadened like the first below costa, then interrupted and 

 forming a triangular blotch on the submedian fold ; marginal area rather darker, 

 but without distinct markings ; a curved white comma-shaped mark at apex, below 

 which there is a dark brown spot near hindmargin. The intervening spaces are 

 paler, with obscure clouds and reticulations. 



Hindwings : paler, with a straight brown median fascia from costa before 

 middle to middle of inner margin, and a brownish grey marginal shade, the inner 

 edge of which is fairly straight ; fringes concolorons. 



Underside paler, especially along costa, with the markings deep brown; a patch 

 of mixed brown and metallic scales in the cell, and another beyond it ; the white 

 apical mark i)lainer and longer, edged inwardly with darker. Head brown ; thorax 

 and abdomen like wings. Hindmargin of both wings sinuous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One ¥ from Mt. Dulit, Borneo. 



14. Pharambara nitens ab. atribasalis nov. 



Among a series of ten examples of 1'. /litc/m Biitl., collected by A. S. Meek 

 at Blilne Bay, British New Guinea, in November and December 1898, occur two 

 specimens (d' ? ) which must be named as an aberration. In these the whole of the 

 basal half of forewings as far as and including the central fascia, with the exception 

 of the costal area, is tilled up with deep brown-black. In all other respects they 

 agree with the typical form. 



The comparison of numerous specimens from New Guinea (MUne Bay and 

 Kapaur), as well as from the islands St. Aignan, Ron, Sndest, Rossel, and Dorei, 

 all agreeing with typical P. nitens Bntl., from Alu, tends to confirm the view that 

 this form is ajjpreciably distinct from the Indian hamifera Moore. 



lo. Striglina leprosa Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. 225 (c?). 

 Among the insects sent in by Mr. A. S. Meek from Milne Bay, British New 

 Guinea, are eight examples of Striylina leprosa, of which three are ? ?. This sex 

 differs from the 6 in having the ground-colour darker, greyish pink or dull liver- 

 colour instead of 3'ellow ; the outer curved line of white spots is much broader, 

 consisting of three spots in a row between the veins instead of a single spot. The 

 hindwings are more uniformly coloured than in the J. All three examples arc a 

 little larger than the c?cf. 



