( 470 ) 



in middle, not glossy ; a snlimarginal band of metallic, green spots, extending a 

 short distance basad behind costal margin, stopping posteriori)- at M' ; SC stalked 



with SC^" but situated close to cell, W from cell. Iliudwinu' metallic pale blue, 



strongly glossy, purple in certain liglits ; fringe creamy white in upj>er two-tiftbs ; 

 E- and li^ stalked together, M- from middle of cell. 



Underside metallic white from base bej-ond coil, distal margin metallic pale 

 blue, purplisli, this colour extending along costal margin to one-half; hinder 

 margin of forewiug olivaceous, pnri)lisli. 



Length of forcwing : 8i mm. 



One c?. 



Herpolasia gen. nov. 



S ? . Frons conical, strongly projecting, rounded. Tliorax and base of hindwing 

 woolly. 



Nenration : Forewing, SC anastomosed or connected with V., SC- free, SO' 

 and SC* on a long stalk, SC"' from this stalk near cell, R' close to upper angle of 

 cell, veins R- to M- from cell. Hindwing, veins SC- to M- from celh 



Type : 11. aiigarra s])ec. nov. 



D> 



41. Herpolasia augarra spec. nov. 



cJ. Body black, purplish ; npperside of abdomen metallic bluish green, legs 

 partly greenish blue, a thin occipital belt and the anal tuft orange ; underside of 

 abdomen spotted with white ; branches of antenna very long. 



"Wings, )ippcrsi(h. Forewing black, not glossy, washed with green, and at 



costal and distal margins and round apex of cell with purple ; a double dot near 



base, a halfmoon before middle of cell and a subapical dot creamy white, small. ■ 



Hindwing olive-black, metallic blue from base to three-quarters, a spot on cross- 

 veins and a large patch beliind cell white. 



Underside olive-black. Forewing with dispersed metallic blue scaling from 



base to apex of cell, a spot before middle of cell, a larger one on cross-veins and 



an apical dot creamy white. Hindwing : a broad streak from base to middle of 



cell, with some scattered scales fartlier distad, and abdominal margin from SM- 

 backwards, metallic blue; white spots as above, a little larger, the white post- 

 ceUular jjatch slightly bordered with blue distally. 



?. Body as in <?, but head and a large sjwt on mesothoracic tegnla white, 

 abdomen without white spots beneath, glossy blue above ; branches of antennnl 

 segments about half as long as in i. 



Wings, uppersidc. Forewing uniformly green-black, with four creamy white 



spots from base to apex, third the largest, apical one the smallest, all larger than 



in S. Hindwing glossy bine, except the woolly base and the distal and costnl 



marginal liordcrs, the distal border ill defined, gradually narrowing abdominad, the 

 blue colour reaching close to fringe at anal angle. 



Underside glossy blue for the greater part ; forewing with three white spots, 

 the basal one of upperside being here absent ; liiiidwing with a white d<il (iii 

 cross-veins. 



Length: c?, 18 mm. ; ?,22mm. 



One pair. 



Chalcosiu (?) alhomedia Rothschild, iVoj:. Zool. iv. p. 30i). n. G. t. 7. f. G (1897) 

 (Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea), belongs also to this genus. 



