NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. I. JULY, 1894. No. 3. 



AN ACCOUNT OF A COLLECTION OF DIURNAL 

 LEPIIJOFTEnA 



;\rAT)E BY MR. W. DOHERTY AT HU.MHOLDT BAY, DUTCH NEW 

 GUINEA, AND IN NEIGHBOURING ISLAND,'^, IN THE MUt^EUM 

 OF THE HONOURABLE WALTER ROTHSCHILD AT TRING, \\rn[ 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By II. GROSE SMITH, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Etc. 



PART III. 

 L YCAENIDAE (continued). 



UU. Gerydus boisduvali .Moore. 

 Two males and a. female frotii Mansiiiaiu. 



192. Gerydus leos GnCn: 

 Two males and three /emrt/es from ;Man.-iinain. 



19;;. Pithecops dionisius Boi,<d. 

 A long series. 



194. Spalgis substrigatiis Snellen. 

 One specimen from Gani, which I take to be tliis species, or it may be new; it is 

 darker and smaller than the insect figured in vol. xxi. of Tijdschrift v. Entomologie. 



1 9."). Megisba monacha sp. no\ . 



'SVk\J'..— Upperside : differs from if. strongyle Feld. in ba\ing the white band 

 on the anterior wings more restricted, and on the posterior wings in having a white 

 patch extending from the middle of the costal margin into tlie centre of the disc 

 and the outer part of the cell. On tlie miderside the costal and outer margin.s 

 of the anterior and the outer margin of the posterior wings are more broadly fuscous. 



The female resembles the male, but the white patch on the upperside of the 

 posterior wings is wider. ^^^d5^<i 



Expanse of wings : J inch. . J^IbMIsiv 



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