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23. Stauropus dubiosus spec. uov. (PI. VI. f. 39. ? ). 



<3 . Head and tliorax grizzled ; palpi dark brown, fringed with cream-colour ; 

 abdomen brownish grey, with dark anterior segment. 



Primary, above, grizzly brown, with an obscure dark basal line, a double ante- 

 medial, and a very irregular and rather interrupted postmedial line ; snbterminal 

 line distinct and irregular ; tliere is a good deal of metallic green irroration over 

 much of the wing. Secondary reddish brown, with a paler costa and iridescent 

 green darkly margined apical patch. 



? . Similar to the male, with the autemedial line slightly shifted forwards and 

 oblique so as to be a medial double line ; the area between the postmedial and 

 subterminal lines is more or less covered with pale greyish irrorations. This se.\ 

 is rougher and more mottled-looking than the male. 



Expanse : tJ, 48 ; ? , 58 mm. 



Hab. Mount Kebea, a series taken in March and Ajiril ; Ekeikei, January 

 to March. 



24. Stauropus bella spec nov. (PI. IV. f. 14). 

 ? . Head and thorax mauve-grey ; palpi chocolate-brown, tipped with pinkish 



grey. 



Primary, above, greyish mauve or lavender-grey (a very pretty colour, difficult 

 to express accurately), more or less irrorated with metallic green ; the basal area 

 showing through a slight chocolate-coloured suffusion ; a postmedial oblinue row 

 of broad chocolate-coloured dashes from vein 3 to the inner margin, with three 

 similar marks on the costa beyond the cell ; apex and termen chocolate-brown. 

 Secondary whitish, with a very broad terminal area of the same colour as the 

 primary, with the usual apical patch. 



Expanse : 41 mm. 



Ilah. Ekeikei, January and February. 



24. Stauropus dinawa spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 17). 



t?. Head, palpi, and antennae reddish brown : thorax darker reddish brown, 

 and abdomen paler. 



Primary, above, dark grey, with the tips of the scales finely metallic pale 

 green or pale grey ; the greater portion are metallic green, but the pale grey 

 colour is quite distinct iu small patches among the fine green irrorations ; the 

 costal half of the base is metallic ochreous green, the basal half and extending 

 to the inner angle is covered with deep red, having scales longer than the rest of 

 the wing scales, through which is visible a trace of the basal line, and a greenish 

 patch in the centre of the inner margin and a darker greenish patch edged with 

 whitish exteriorly near the inner angle ; there is on the costa an obscure dark 

 patch between the cell and the apex. iSecondary pale whitish, buff-coloured, with 

 a broad dark outer and costal margin and an apical patcli of metallic green scales, 

 the costa having an irroration of the grey-tipped scales also. 



Expanse : 4U mm. 



Ilab. Dinawa ; also in the Tring Museum from the upper Aroa River. 



This is an unusual-looking species ; the mixture of the tine metallic green- 

 tipped scales with the grey-tipped ones gives it a mottled appearance ; the deep red 

 velvety scales along the inner margin should make it easily recognisable. 



