( H ) 



peppered with black ; a sinuous postmedian line on Loth wings, thickened on veins ; 

 cell-spots and marginal spots black. Face and palj)i dark I'errnginons ; basal joint 

 of palpi ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen beneath and 

 legs whitish, like hiiidwings. 



Exjiause of wings : 34 mm. 



One c? from Bnrdekin River, County Davenport, Queensland. 



Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 

 34. Bytharia lucida sp. nov. 



Foreidngs : deep yellow, with the costa and hindmargin black-brown, more 

 broadly at the apex ; the inner edge of the marginal border crennlatc ; the costal 

 border slightly lustrous ; along the curved edge of the marginal border is a 

 lustrous lunate-edged fascia : fringe black-brown. 



JlindwiM/s : with marginal border narrower, its edge crenulate, ami with a 

 lustrous fascia. 



Underside like upper, but with no lustrous scaling. Abdomen, legs, face, and 

 thorax yellow; i)alpi, vertex, and antennae broii/,e-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



Two S6, one ?, from New Hanover, February and March 1*07 (Webster). 



35. Eumelea apicata (?) sp. nov. 



Forewings : yellow, mottled with ferruginous striae ; those along the costa 

 purple; indistinct fulvous shades from inner margin at one-fourth and one-half, 

 becoming obsolete above the median vein ; apical third occujiied by a large purplish 

 chocolate blotch, scarcely reaching lower than vein 3, and enclosing a small yellow 

 space at apex ; fringe of the same colour as the blotch, with lunnles of the same 

 at base. 



llindwings : with a central straight slightly crenulated fulvous line, and 

 before the apex four spots of purplish scales in a line to above middle of hind- 

 margin ; fringe jjurple, with a continuous purple basal line. 



Underside the same, but all the striae as well as the lines and blotch purple. 

 Head, tliorax, and abdomen yellow, with a few purplish scales. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



One ? from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, low country, December 1896 

 (Doherty). 



Certainly related to E. genuina Kirsch {= craspedias Meyr.), and possibly an 

 abnormal example of the ? of that species ; the types in both cases were 6 6. 

 I may here draw attention to the fact that in Kirsch's figure the central line of the 

 forewings is drawn too strongly ; it is rarely expressed above the median ; Kirscli 

 called it " se/ir terschwommener 



This species is evidently identical with an insect described by Pagenstecher, 

 Jahrb. JS'ass. Ver. Is80. p. 155, from New Guinea, as a further development of 

 the form genuina Kirsch, which he as well as Snellen sinks along with all the 

 other so-called species as synonyms of romlia Cram. Unfortunately he does not 

 give the sex. 



