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TWO NEW SATTIBNIIBAE. 



By the HON. WALTER R0TII8GI1ILD, Pn.D. 



1. EiOthschildia steinbachi spec, no v. 



c?. Allied to R. stiiarti Rothsch., which may tnrn out to be the same as 

 R. condor Stand., Iris vii. p. 84 (1804). Head and breast pale rnfous red ; legs 

 and underside of abdomen yellowish grey; abdominal tergites edged with grey, 

 the two grey longitudinal lines generally present in this genus thin. 



Wings of a peculiar olivaceous wax-yellow colour distally, paler than in 



stuarti also from base to discal line. Forewing : antemedian band more evenly 



curved than usually in this genus ; discal spot anguliform as in stuarti, closer to 

 the discal line, which it touches in the C^^jg-specimen, broader distally, its posterior 

 projection proportionately shorter ; discal line strongly crenate; the two upper black 

 submarginal spots proximally bordered by a red and then by a white line as in 



stuarti, but these lines more sliarply defined. Hiudwing : semivitreous patch 



triangular, proximally not rounded as iu stuarti, but eraarginate, touching the 

 strongly crenate discal line or extending close to it. 



Underside much paler than in stuarti, only slightly washed with red, the 

 hindwing being almost entirely olivaceous wax-yellow ; black lines and spots very 

 prominent; discal lines strongly crenate; submarginal line of hindwing dark 

 wax-yellow, the black spots situated proximally of it prominent. 



Length of forewing : 40 — 42 mm. 



liah. Tucuman (J. Steinbach). 



3 SS. 



2. Opodiphthera papuana spec. nov. 



S ? . Similar to 0. astropkela ; smaller, ujiperside of antenna more tawny, sides 

 of palpi and upper surface of foreleg purple-brown. 



Forewing much shorter than in astropkela, with the distal margin straight 

 ((?) or convex (¥), not emarginate ; costal area irrorated with purple-brown as far 

 down as eye-spot, the latter circular on both wings, with a much larger brown- 

 black centre than in astropkela ; the discal line of both wings followed by a row 

 of more or less luniform small spots, which are more distinct in the ? than in 



the cJ. On the hindwing the discal line is crenate, and there is a nearly 



straight snbmedian line jiroximally of the eye-spot. 



Underside deeper yellow than upper, both wings irrorated anteriorly with 

 purple-brown ; antemedian lines heavy on both wings, snbmedian line of hindwing 

 vestigial ; discal line of hindwing undulate ; postdiscal Innules prominent on both 

 wings ; purple-brown outer ring of eye-spot of forewing distally very thin, as is 

 also the case on upperside. 



Hab. Astrolabe Bay, German New Gtuinea. 



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