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25. Caprimima albicollis. 



Hypocrita albicollis Pagenstecher, Jahrh. Nass. Ver. Nat. xxxix. p. 125 (1886) 

 (Aru ; N. Guinea). 



Caprimu gelida Hampson, I.e. p. 286. f. 203 (1900) (p. parte). 



Caprimima albicollis, id., I.e. p. 561 (19U0). 



We have a long series of both sexes of this species from British N. Guinea, the 

 Trobriand and d'Entrecasteaux Islands, 1 ? from Kapaur, January 1897 (W. Doherty), 

 and another ? from Uorey from the Felder collection. 



Three individuals from Humboldt Bay, 2 SS,\ ?, differ from all the others 

 in the prothoracic tegnla not being white and in the white area of the hindwing 

 being broader behind. For this " white-neck " with a bluish black neck we 

 propose the name : 



C. albicollis mendax subsp. nov. 



Type: (?. 



26. Caprimima obliqua sp. nov. 



? . Body black, anal tuft dirty white ; anterior jjart of mesothoracic tegnla, 

 anterior coxa, upperside of tibiae, part of femora, apical half of first segment of all 

 tarsi chalky white. (Collar rnbbed ; seems to have been blue-black). 



Wings, aboce. Forewiug : base black, this band barely 2 mm. broad, its 



outer edge straight, slightly oblique, a broad white band from costal margin — which 

 is not black — to inner margin, about 3^ to 4 mm. wide, broadest at (SM'), its outer 

 edge oblique from costal margin to (SM'), feebly indented at SO, shallowly sinuate 

 between (SM') and inner margin : distal half of wing black, the black area including 



a very large cupreous red patch. Hindwing : the black basal band of the forewing 



continued across base along abdominal margin, this border about If mm. broad, 

 continuous with the black distal border of the wing, which is 4 mm. wide in front, 

 and strongly narrows to M^, being almost restricted to the fringe between M- and 

 8M° ; rest of hindwing white, this area anteriorly just as wide as that of the 

 forewing at inner margin, running obliquely across the wing, evenly rounded behind. 



Underside as above, the white areas a little larger, the black distal border of 

 the hindwing with a cupreous patch at upper angle. 



Length of forewing : 12 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, British N. Guinea (Weiske), 1 ?. 



27. Caprimima biguttata sp. nov. 



d". Black, pronotum thinly edged with white in front ; legs white, partly brown, 

 especially the upperside of the hindleg, sternites of posterior abdominal segments 

 more or less white, anal tuft huffish white. 



AViugs, above, black. Forewing rather less elongate than in albicollis ; a 



white submedian patch from inner margin to C, not reaching costal margin, straight 

 proximally, of even width up to M°, then narrowing strongly, in one of the seven 

 individuals the patch almost rounded ofl' in front ; a large copper-red patch in distal 

 region ; a rounded subcostal spot at the proximal side ; another, smaller, subdivided 



spot at the distal edge of the patch, both spots white. Hindwing : a white middle 



band, not quite reaching abdominal margin. 



