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spots, and a broad, ill-defined, outer discal baud of confluent patches, widest 

 between R- and R^ Vandyke-brown ; black submargiual spots bordered with white, 

 admarginal interspaces ochraceous yellow, posteriorly shaded with olive. 

 Underside of abdomen orange posteriorly. 



TioTE.—Abimra abbuna Heller, Iris xv. p. 131. t. 3. f. 7. ^ (1902) is the g of Abisum salraps 

 ximbanguna Hagen. Jtihrb. Nass. Vei: Nut. 1. p. 9!t. n. 160 (IH'.t") (Simbang). 



21. Dicallaneura amabilis spec. nov. (PI. H. f 21. <S, 22. ?). 



c?. Upperside of thorax and abdomen olivaceous Vandyke-brown ; liead 

 chestnut, white at eyes ; palpus white, underside of thora.x and abdomen, and 

 legs creamy buff. 



Wings, upperside, olivaceous Vandyke-brown ; fore wing blackish brown in 

 outer two-thirds, with a broad yellow l)and from near costal edge to M-, which is 

 bisinuate distalh-. 



Underside. Forewing : chestnut, olive from M- to hinder edge ; two bars in 



cell and a third beyond olive ; a white median band from costal edge to M-' separated 

 by a transverse chestnut bar R^ — M" into two portions, outer portion tinged with 

 yellow distaliy ; four small transverse bars on disc from costal margin to M' silvery 

 white ; a white costal bar halfway to apex, and a white subapical dot, a yellowish 

 rufous submargiual line from M- forward, gradually disappearing towards costal 



margin. Hindwing : chestnut, washed with drab, excepting a number of chestnut 



bands and spots, situated as in the ? figured, but mostly rather heavier ; 

 median band extending from costal edge to R^ slightly edged with white distaliy ; 

 three white spots SC" — R^ at or within chestnut discal spots ; first and third 

 submargiual spots (perhaps also the posterior ones, which are missing, the wing 

 being torn) black centred with white. 



?. Body paler than in S, breast white. Wings, upperside. Forewing at 



base and hindwing dark drab ; forewing with a large white area, not extending to 

 base, reaching to upper angle of cell and posteriorly to near apex of SM-, almost 

 rectangularly widening at R-', then rounded ; hindwing with a white elongate costal 

 patch ; fringe of hindwing spotted with white, white fringe at tip of tail especially 

 conspicuous. 



Underside rather paler than in S, especially the hindwing. Forewing with 



a broad white band, sharply defined, its inner edge crossing M at point of origin of 

 M-, outer edge subrectangularly broken at R^ as above, a costal bar of spots outside 

 the band followed half-way to apex by a line of seven or si.x silvery spots ; outside 



this line a pale continuous line ; two white subapical dots. Hindwing with 



white costal patch outside the oblique median band ; interspaces between the 

 pale chestnut markings whitish, much paler than in S ; submargiual spots black, 

 more or less edged with silvery white distaliy, spot in tail longest ; admarginal 

 interspaces ochraceous. 



Length of forewing : S 24 mm., ? 20 mm. 



Hub. Owgarra, north of head of Aroa River, May 1903. One 3,2 ? ?. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 22. Messaras mimicus spec. nov. (PI. III. f. 43. c?). 

 S. Upperside of body black-olive, slightly greenish, underside buff. Wings, 

 upperside, black-olive, somewhat glossy, faintly greenish olive and purplish 



