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especially the H lifyoud the cell-spot, which is much narrower : two pale whiter 

 streaks from base, one above median vein, the other from base of inner margin : 

 a third along inner margin forming jiart of the antemedian pale series of spots. 



Hiriflwings : golden yellow ; a purple bar at base ; cell-spot conical, joined to 

 a more diffuse band from inner margin ; a submarginal purplish band crossed by 

 dark streaks on the veins ; a marginal series of spots, irregularly continuous from 

 apex to vein 4, then becoming irregular submarginal spots, the fringe remaining 

 jiurple to anal angle. 



Underside with all the markings plain ; the difluse ])ar of upper side from 

 inner margin represented by two distinct jiurplish black spots. Face yellow, 

 with centre narrowly puride ; palpi purjjle above, yellow below ; collar yellow ; 

 shoulders yellow at base, becoming i)urple at tips ; patagia yellow, with centre 

 ]inrplish ; abdomen yellow, the base of each segment with dull purplish rings ; 

 pectus and abdomen beneath yellow. 



E.\panse of wings : 78 mm. 



Three c?(^, two ? ? from Palawan. 



33. Dysphania regnatrix sp. nov. 



Intermediate between pilosd Butler and tyriunthiiia Butler, distinguished from 

 the latter species by the predominance of the purple suffusion by which the paler 

 markings are curtailed. This is most striking in the bindwings, where the large 

 white basal area of tijrkinthina is reduced to a comparatively narrow white band 

 before the cell-spot, the whole basal area being deep purple, the costal border 

 broader and the narrow dark cell-spot develojied into a large blotch. Of the orange- 

 red blotclies only the tips remain orange, the upper four thus forming a pair 

 of connected crescents, and that at the anal angle reduced to an irregular curved 

 streak ending internally in a single crescent. In the forewing the two upper white 

 subapical spots are reduced to half-moons, the third and fourth being almost 

 obsolete, while that at the anal angle is a thin oblique line. The whole head, 

 thorax, metathorax, and segmental rings of abdomen are deep purple ; the centre 

 of thorax and dorsum, except the anal segments, which are orange, being grey- 

 brown, like the legs, pectus, and underside of abdomen ; the eyes alone are fringed 

 externally with orange. 



Expanse of wings : 111.' mm. 



One ? from Knlambangra, Solomon Islands, March lOol (Meek). 



34. Dysphania tentans subalbata subsp. nov. 



Differs from the usual form in that the wliite spaces are pure while, not 

 suffused with violet-purple. The difference is more striking in the ? ? than in the 

 i$, and especially noticeable on the underside. 



One i, two ? ? from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March— May 18'Jo (Meek). 



Subfamily PSEUDOTERPNINAE. 

 3o. Hypochroma basinig-ra sj). nov. 

 Forewinqs : flesh-coloured ochrcous, dusted with black-brown, sparsely in the 

 central, thickly and suffusedly in the basal and marginal areas ; first line black- 

 brown, crenulated, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; outer 



