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5. Phalaenoides basiplaga sp. uov. (PI. V. f. 5. ?). 



t? ? . Differs from Ph. megisto Boisd. in the hindwing being marked witli a 

 large white basi-discal patch both above and below. 



Hab. Milne Bay, British New Guinea, February 1SU9 (A. S. Meek), 1 <?, 1 ?. 



6. Phalaenoides kuhni sp. nov. (PI. V. f. 4. ?). 



?. Palpi black, tirst segment, and end of second laterally and ventrally, white. 

 Head dark fawn-colonr, a ring round the frontal cone (not quite closed above), three 

 spots on occiput, front of liasal .segment of antennae, and a strijie behind the eye, 

 white. Thorax above fawn-colour, collar edged with white, a spot on patagia white, 

 metanotum also marked white. Sterna white. Abdomen yellow, tirst segment 

 white above, edged with black, the black edges of the other tergites less obvious ; 

 sternites edged witli white, basal one all white. Legs : femora white, with a yellow 

 spot above, tibiae black, witli three white rings, yellowish in front, third apical, 

 foretibia, besides, with a yellow patch ; tarsi black, tip of segment I to 3 and base 

 of segment 1 narrowly white. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing : dark fawn-colour, a trapeziform patch at 



internal margin in basal half, an irregular, oblique band from costa to internal 

 angle, interrupted behind M^, a number of small dots in basal half, and two rows 

 of dots upon the uervules outside the band, two submarginal spots at apex, and a 



series of dots at the end of the veins white. Hindwing brownish black, a large 



basal patch, rounded externally, dots at end of veins, and a small submarginal sjiot 

 at anal angle white. 



Underside brownish black. Forewing : a broad streak along internal margin 



from base to beyond middle, a short basal streak behind costal margin, two sjiots in 

 cell, an oblique band as above, but more widely interruj»ted, a rather large apical 

 spot, and a series of dots at margin, white. Hindwing as above. 



Length of forewing : l!) mm. 



Hab. Dammer Island, Banda Sea, 11.12.98 (H. Kilhn), 1 ?. 



GHALCOSIIDAE. 

 7. Canerkes gloriosus sp. nov. (PI. V. f G, ?). 



¥. Head and antennae above blue ; face, a line on occiput and cheeks dirty 

 white ; palpi bluish black, dirty white ventrally. Thorax above blackish blue, 

 collar edged white, patagiae with a white dot at end, mesouotum with another 

 white dot at each side farther back, sterna blue ; abdomen yellowish buff colour, 

 ringed with blue above ; more white beneath, without blue rings. Legs greenish- 

 blue above, buff beneath. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing : black, with a greenish tint, without distinct 



gloss, with the following white spots ; one at extreme base, followed by two 

 others, an oblique series of four across middle of cell, a larger one upon cross-veins, 



an irregular series of tive between cell and apex, and two near internal angle. 



Hindwing : iiltramarinu blue, shot with j)urple outwardly, basal area and three 

 streaks in abdominal area white, marginal area bluish black in front, yellow behind; 

 three white sjiots in blue area. 



Underside : both wings blue. Forewing black at apex, markings esseutialJy 



