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lielow vein (! ; apical area whitish ; a row of bhickisii marginal sjiots between veins; 

 marginal line fine, festooned ; fringe whitish, retldish tinged. 



Ilindwingn : similar, without basal line; whole marginal area reddish, tlie 

 submarginal line less distinct. 



Underside with middle, outer, and submarginal lines all shar[ily dentate : basal 

 areas pale fulvous, marginal areas reddish fulvous, jjaler again beyond submarginal 

 lines ; basal area of forewings and basi-costal area of hindwings black-speckled ; 

 space between middle and outer lines whitisli, washed with fulvons and crossed 

 by fulvous veins : apical area between veins (1 a.nd S white ; (^ell-spots of both wings 

 distinct, elongate. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen above like base of wings ; face 

 and jialpi above dark ferruginous, paler below ; pectus and legs fulvons ; abdom^'u 

 j)aler below ; fore- and mid-tibiae and tarsi fuscous tinged in front. 



Expanse of wings : 43 mm. 



One ? from Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands, April— May 19ul (Meek). 



Evidently related to N. mi/solata ^Vlk. and (lupUciptuwta Warr.; the remarkably 

 coloured underside separates it at once. 



77. Peridela ochreata s]j. nov. 



S- Forewings : ochreous, dusted with black atoms, more thickly in the mar- 

 ginal area ; lines .jiale brownish, indistinc-t : first at one-fourth, bent in cell, then 

 nearly vertical ; median outbent above and below middle, with a faint straight line 

 inside it, touching each extremity ; cell-spot dark, iudistiiict : outer line from a 

 sjiot at two-thirds of costa, oblique outward to above vein (!, there angled, forming 

 a brown jioint, tlien straight to four-tiftbs of inner margin, dark brown and thick in 

 one example, in the other quite obsolete ; submarginal line scarcely distinguishable, 

 but marked between veins 3 and 5 by two black wedge-shaped marks touching outer 

 line ; a slight obli(iue grey subapical shade ; marginal line brown, interrupted, most 

 distinct along the subapical excision ; fringe concolorous. 



JUn'liviiiijs : with waved antemedian brown line, jireceding a distinct black 

 cell-spot, and looped or doubled below middle ; a distinct thick brown straight line 

 at two-thirds, from before a])ex to anal angle, followed by a diffuse narrow brownisii 

 grey band, dentate outwardly, the teeth marked between the veins by black spots, 

 marked throughout in one example, only below middle in the other ; marginal line 

 hardly indicated. 



Underside with the markings deeper brown, the speckling coarser ; above the 

 double black blotch of forewings a yellow patch ; apex of forewings and hindmargin 

 of hindwings whitish. Head, thorax, and abdoiuen concolorous ; basal segment of 

 abdomen marked by a i)air of brown dots ; shoulders ochraceous fuscous. 



¥ as coarsely speckled above as below ; the outer line fine and double ; the 

 fascia beyond it much broader, dull greyish fulvons, the teeth not marked with 

 black ; the whole marginal area more or less filled uji with the same tint, makini' 

 the submarginal line more visible in jilaces ; the ajjex of forewings whitish, 

 preceded by a jiale tawny ])atch ; the two black blotches represented by a fulvous 

 brown bhitch. Underside with the fascia and marginal markings brown and fulvous ; 

 the jiale spaces of the marginal field white, tlie ba.«al two-thirds jiale ochraceous. 



Expanse of wings : <S, 35 mm. ; ? , 38 mtu. 



Two id, one ?, from Gnadalcanar, Solomon Islands, April — May lUOI (Meek). 



