(434) 



The AVoodlark Island individual is much larger than all our other specimens 

 (forewing mesisuriiig ]'ih mm.), and represents most likely a separate subspecies; 

 the base of the forewiug is green ; on the left forewing SO- is fused with SC^^ 

 but branches off ugain close to tip of SC^ on the right forewing SO- comes from 

 the upper angle of the cell and SC is absent. 



Sb. A. centralis diluta Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



c?. Patches of both wings larger than in the preceding subspecies ; that of 

 forewing measuring over 3 mm. in breadth, reaching the base of M' and expanding 

 from C to beyond SM-. 



Length of forewing : <?, 9i mm. 



R' of forewing stalked with SC'^ R'^ and R^ on a short stalk. 



Hab. Kapanr^ Dutch N. Guinea, December 1896 (W. Doherty), 1 c?. 



8c. A. centralis suffasa Rothscli., subsp. nov. 



c? ? . Patch of hindwing aboce suffused with black, sometimes absent, small 

 on umhrside, anteriorly not reaching beyond cell-vein. 



Length of forewing : i, 9— llj mm. ; $, 10—12 mm. 



Vein SC^ of forewing often absent. 



Hab. Louisiade Archipelago : Rossel Island {type), March 1898 (A. S. Meek), 

 6 (JcT, 3 ? ? ; St. Aignau, September and October 1897 (A. S. Meek), 4 <? c?, 

 4 ? ?. 



9. Aphantocephala moluccarum Fekl, Sitz.-Ber. Ahacl. Wiss. Wien 

 XLIII. p. 30. n. 65 (1861). 



S ? . Boclij abocf, breast and legs bistre brown ; upperside of antennae and 

 abdomen, violet purple, glossy ; underside of abdomen yellow, except the apex, 

 which is glossy purple. Wings uniformly bistre brown on both sides, iridescent 

 in side-light, semidiaphanous. 



SC of forewing absent, SC and SC^ stalked together ; R' of hindwing absent, 

 upper cross-vein at right angles to C, or its upper end pointing distad. 



Length of forewiug : S, Si — 9 J mm. ; ? , 10 mm. 



Hab. Described by Felder from Amboina ; W. Doherty, in February 1892, 

 found 2 66 and 1 ? of this species on the same island. 



I'l. Caprima spectabilis Rothsch., sp. nov. 



6- Face, anterior part of collar, tegulac in front of wings, extreme edges of 

 tergites of abdomen, legs and underside of abdomen pale yellow, rest of body 

 brownish black, somewhat purplish, thorax above and below with some metallic 

 glaucous blue scales. 



Wings, upperside, black. Forewing with a yellow band from costal margin, 



which it docs not (piite reach, across end of cell to M*: the band is straight, widest 



in front, about 2 mm., its inner edge crosses M at or before base of M". Hindwing: 



a large yellow jiatch extends from the base to the disc, the patch is limited 

 posteriorly by SM", about 1 mm. distant from outer edge at M*, rounded outwardly, 

 obliquely cut off between R' and Rl 



