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Hab. Milne Bay, Brit. N. Guinea, November 1898 (A. S. Meek), 2 cJcJ {_ti/pe) ; 

 Mailu, Brit. N. Guinea, July '95 (Anthony), 1 c? ; Fergasson I., d'Entrecasteaux Is., 

 December 1894 (A. S. Meek), 2 SS. 



I). Z. flavibasis immaculata subsj). nov. 



S. Body as in ubdominulis. 



Forewing : without yellow patch, veins less heavily black, enter margin broader 

 black than in ahdominalis a,u([_//ar/7xisis. 



Ilindwing : below with the costal margin yellow. 



Hab. Humboldt Bay, Dutch N. Guinea, September — October 1892 (W. Doherty), 

 5 Si. 



A distinct species ? 



c. Z. flavibasis flavibasis. 



S ? . Abdomen black above, the middle tergites being partly yellow only in 

 one of our ? ? ; tibiae more or less distinctly fuscous on the upperside. Veins of 

 forewing prominently black ; yellow spot somewhat variable in size. 



In the Tring Museum from Little Key, collected by H. Ktihn, chiefly in 

 January and March, 30 SS, 10 ? ?. 



13. Zygaenopsis papua. 



Northia papm Oberthtir, Et. d'Ent. xix. p. 28. t. 5. f 38 (1894) (Dorey). 



Zi/gaenosiajlavibasis, Hami)Son, I.e. (1900) (p. parte). 



cJ?. This species has been treated by Hampson as an aberrational form of 

 fiacibasis ; it is doubtless distinct. Z. papua agrees in the colour of the body with 

 /.Jiaciba.%is abdomiiKilis. 



Foreiving : vein streaks not so prominent, no patch upon discocellulars, besides 

 the yellow basal spot there is a second just be3'0ud middle of inner margin. 



In the Tring Museum from Dorey, June 1897 (W. Doherty), (5 cJcJ, 1 ?. 



14. Zygaenopsis medioplaga sp. nov. 



(?. Head, collar, mesothoracic tegnla and underside orange yellow ; a small spot 

 on frons, a patch on occipnt, middle of collar, end of palpus and tibiae, and clasper 

 black. 



Wings smoky black. Forewing : semi-diaphanous, except at apex and inner 

 margin, less so than injlavibasis, with an orange patch in middle of inner margin. 



Clasper with the sinns vestigial. 



Length of forewing : 9 to 10^ mm. 



Hab. Batjan, March 1892, and August 1897 (W. Doherty), 3 SS ; (iani, 

 Halmahera, November 1890 (W. Doherty), 2 cJcJ. 



Tgpe : Batjan, August ls97. 



