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ol)iinuely clistad to 51', curving Lasad behind M' to near cell, and then turning 

 towards abdominal margin, which it reaches at distal Ibnrth ; outside the upper i)art 

 of this line there is a triangular band, and outside the hinder part of the line, 

 within the loop, a patch ; all these markings dull green, not prominent, bordered 

 with chestnut.- — — Hindwing dark mummy-brown ; a pale orange basi-discal area, 

 rounded distally, shaded with brown behind, the veins traversing it more or less 

 brown ; distal border mm. broad at R', of nearly even width ; edge of wing 

 teebly scalloped; fringe white at apical and anal angles. 



Underside similar to that of the orange form of T. tricolor halans (1895) 

 Karsch, but the black dot in the cell of the forewing smaller. The white band of 

 the forewing vestigial in one of the two ? ? (///pf), being shaded over with brown. 



(J. Similar to ?, orange area of hindwing paler (faded ?). 



Length of forewing : cj, 18 mm. ; ? , 21 mm. 



I/al). St. Thome,Bightof Benin, December 1899 to January 1900 (A. Mocquerys). 



Two ? ? and one worn S . 



The description of the neuration of Tiierta iu Hamjison, Lep. I'hal. iii. p. <J22 

 (19Ul), is not correct in so far as " vein 7 " often comes from the areole, the position 

 of that vein being individually variable. 



Figures 254 and 255 of the same work have become transposed, the former 

 representing I'iseudospiris paidiformis and the latter Faida pulchra. 



14. Arg'yrolepidia aequalis capiens snbspec. nov. 



(?. Similar to A. neq. aequalis; the second white patch of the hindwing 

 vestigial (>i/i>e), or, if well marked, just touching the first patch, the blue scaling 

 on the underside of the hindwing at the base much more reduced than iu aeq. 

 aequalis. 



? . The two patches of the hiudwing confluent, as in aeq. salomonis, but the 

 second jiatch much smaller than in that subsjiecies. Differs from acq. aequalis ? 

 in the more prominent blue markings on the upperside of the forewing, the more 

 reduced blue basal area on the underside of the hindwing, and in the white patches 

 of the hindwing being confluent and the second patch being hardly half the size 

 of the first. 



Ilab. Treasury Island, Solomon Is., July 1901 (A. S. Meek and Eichhorn) ; a 

 series. 



The reduction of the second white patch of the hindwing is very remarkable, 

 considering that in the subspecies from Choiseul the two patches are so much 

 enlarged as to occupy, iu the ¥ , the greater part of the wing. 



15. Argyrolepidia aequalis Integra subsp. nov. 



(?. Similar to the ? of .1. acq. salomonis (from Guadalcauar) ; the white spot 

 in the cell of the forewing larger, the white discal band slightly wider and somewhat 

 curved. The two white patches of the hindwing larger and completely merged 

 together to one large patch which is very feebly excised at M-. 



?. White discal band ol forewing elongate-elliptical, 5 mm. broad at R^ 



Hindwing with a very large white central area showing no indication of a separation 

 into two patches, almost evenly rounded distally; black distal marginal border 5 mm. 

 broad at SC^ and 4 mm. at M' inclusive of fringe. On the underside the white area 



