( 471 ) 



above on fore-, below on liindwiufr. Forewing: base bine, a broad subbasal 



band white, contignons with a broad purplish bine band whicii is constricted in 

 middle; disc purplish orange; apex and distal and costal edges black, metallic 



jmrple, strough' glossy in side-light ; a white subapical dot. Hindwing white, 



bordered with olive-black at distal and abdominal margins, the border widest at 

 apex, ver)- tbin at anal angle. 



Underside as above, no bine metallic gloss ; the blue bands of forewing partly 

 replaced by olive-black ones; fovea of forewing glossy white-grey, that of hindwing 

 olive-black. 



? . Like (? ; anal tuft smoky grey above, white beneath ; white baud of fore- 

 wing broader than in S , with a thin blue distal border, black distal and costal 

 borders thin, hardly wider at apex than at hinder angle. 



Length of forewing : c? ? , 9 to h) mm. 



Two J J, three ? ?. 



31. Neoscaptia aequalis spec. nov. 



S. Similar to X. alhatu ; head and upperside of thorax dark metallic green-blue. 



Wiugs, uboce. Forewing like head and thorax ; costal fold as in N. albata, 



also the fovea on fore- and hindwing ; a small white spot behind costal fold well 

 before middle, with some white scales in front of it at edge ; an ill-defined discal 

 band from costal margin to hinder angle, purple-orange, much shaded with metallic 



green-blue scales, especially in middle. Hindwing purple-black, with a large 



white basi-discal area, subtriangular, smaller than in X. albata. 



Vndei-side purplish olive-black. Forewing : a small white streak at base ; 



snbapical white dot as above, proximally of this dot a conical longitudinal orange- 

 tawny spot. Hindwing as above, costal edge white in front of fovea, 



?. Like S. Forewing with white subbasal spot above, very variable in siije, 

 and a large white basal patch below ; tawny-orange spot rounded above, about three 

 times the size of the white one, vestigial below; white area of hindwing rather 

 larger than in J. 



Length of forewing : <? ? , 9 mm. 



32. Neoscaptia leucodera spec. nov. 



S. Head and upperside of thorax metallic green-blue, rest of body olive-black, 

 slightly purplish ; collar with two white spots ; a lateral patch on breast, and basal 

 half of the first segment of the tarsi white ; claspers creamy. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing : costal fold as in iV. albata, but smaller, no 



fovea on fore- or hindwing ; metallic green-bine like thorax ; a subbasal band from 

 costal fold straight to hinder margin preceded by a dot on costal fold, and a round 

 snbapical spot, white ; proximally of snbapical spot a purplish orange patch, 



obliquely ovate, from SC to M-. Hindwing olive-black, with a bluish sheen ; 



a large white triangular area from costal margin to SM-, the black distal border 

 being IJ, mm. broad at SM'. 



Underside olive-black, slightly purplish. Forewing : a white streak from 



base to apex of cell; orange spot smaller and white snbapical sjiot larger than 

 above. — —Hindwing : white area larger than above. 



¥. Like S ; apex of hindfemur and basal half of hindtibia white, in addition 

 to the first tarsal segment, the collar, a lateral patch on mesosternum and the 



