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75. Salpinx traducta sp. nov. 



JIale. — Upperside: anterior wings bright brown, darker velvety brown in the 

 middle, an oval bluish white s]iot between the lowest median ner\Tile and submedian 

 lUMvuie, a subniargiual row of bluish white s[>ots between the veins curved at the apex 

 and following tlie outline of the wings below, the lowest spot being situate between the 

 two lowest median mervules, the third, sixth, and seventh the largest ; posterior wings 

 with the lower half of the cell and a narrow space below it very dark velvety brown. 



Underside : dark brown, the apical and outer marginal area of (he anterior wings 

 somewhat lighter, the -space between the cell on anterior wings and the inner margin 

 pale whitish brown, except towards the posterior angle ; a small spot between the two 

 lowest median uervules, and a submarginal curved row of small white siwts, the third 

 and fourth the largest; a small spot above the costa between the first and second 

 subcostal nervules. Posterior wings with three minute spots between the iipjier 

 subcostal and upi)er median nervides, the ujipermost the most distinct. 



Female. — Upperside paler than the viale. Anterior wings with the dark velvety 

 central area less restricted, covering the whole of the wings, except the costal area 

 and the outer third of the disc ; two indistinctly marked bro^TIli.■*h white spots towards 

 the apex. On the jKjsterior wings the inner two-thirds is dark velvety brown. 



Underside paler than above, especially towards the outer margins. On the anterior 

 wings is a small spot between the lower and middle median nervules, and a subajjical 

 c\uved row of five white spots. On the jiosterior wings is a curved submarginal row 

 of three white spots, situate between the upjier subcostal and the discoidal nervules. 



Ex)ianse of wings : 2| inches. 



Hab. Yamma {one female) and Humboldt Bay. 



Near to S. graejffiana Herr.-Schaflf., S. hisme Boisd. and jS. perdita, but a much 

 brio-hter brown than the two last, the outer margins paler and more golden. In some 

 of the males the submarginal row of spots on the upperside of the anterior wings is 

 nearlv ob.solete, and there is no blue spot between the third median nervule on the 

 upperside of the anterior wings of the female as in that sex of jS. hisme, which is 

 also very much darker and less bronze coloured than the female of traducta. 



76. Salpinx minima sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside: both wings fuliginous brown, with the base costa! and outer 

 marginal area of the anterior and the abdominal area of the posterior wings jialer, a 

 pinkish ovate spot on the disc of the anterior wings a little below the lowest median 

 nervule ; on the posterior wings the lower part of the cell and a space a Kttle below the 

 median nervure is blackish brown. 



Underside : both wings fuliginons brown, darker in the middle ; a minute white 

 si)Ot between the third and fourth subcostal nervules, and a dusky spot between the 

 second and third median nervules on the anterior wings, and two minute spots between 

 the subcostal and discoidal nervules on the posterior wings. 



Expanse of wings : IJ inch. 



Near to .S'. /J«ri7i7a Butler, but half the size, and dilfrrs on the underside. In 

 general appearance on the upperside it resembles Calliploea sakahanda Kirsch and 

 C. puviila Butl. 



77. Salpinx callithoe Boi.sd. 

 Two specimens from Mansinam. 



