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SOME NEW FORMS OF THE GENERA BIZABBA 

 AND MILIONIA. 



By Dn. K. JORDAN and HON. WALTKR ROTHSCHILD. 



1. Bizarda elegans sp. uov. 



cJ ? . Upperside of both wings black, with a very strong blue gloss. Forewings with 

 a narrow white band, situated about midway between cell and apex, a small white spot 

 near tlie hinder angle, and a broad, white, slightly curved, median band which stops 

 at the submedian vein and is of almost even breadth. Hindwings in the nude with a 

 broad red patch in the outer half standing between hinder margin and second median 

 nervule ; in the /eino/e this patch has developed inio a band which stops at vein fl, 

 and is narrowest anteriorly. 



Underside black, with a blue gloss at basal portion of the costal margin. 

 Forewings with the same markings as above. Hindwings with an orange yellow 

 or red patch, which is much more extended than that on the n])i)erside, and includes 

 a black spot standing upon the discocellular veinlets. 



Body and legs black, with a strong blue gloss ; abdomen with the side and 

 upperside of the five (J) or six (?) middle segments, except their hinder edges, 

 yellow. 



Outer mai'gin of hindwings of male emarginate near hinder angle. 



Ilnb. Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands (A. S. Meek leg., October 1894). 



2. Milionia meeki sp. nov. 



c? ? . Differs from M. rcnvakensis Quoy & (iaim., especially in the band of the 

 forewings standing farther towards the outer margin, in the marginal black spots to 

 the hindwings being confluent with one another, and in the yellow area of the 

 liindwings entering the discoidal ceil ; marginal fringe of hindwings all black. 



Hob. Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands (A. S. Meek leg., October 1894). 



3. Milionia queenslandica sp. nov. 



S ?. Forewings .similar in pattern to those of meeki and raivnkensis ; basal 

 patch often joined to the band. Hindwings with nan-ow, marginal, yellow band, 

 and a rather small patch of the same colour posteriorly on the disc; this patch 

 connected with the anal angle by means of a narrow yellow band. 



Hab. Cedar Bay, North tiueeusland (A. S. Meek lecj.). 



4. Milionia brevipennis sp. nov. 



cJ. Forewings as in M. cuUlmurpha (t)herth.) [Et. d'Ent. XIX. p. 21). t. :5. f 13 

 (1894)], but broader, with the band narrower and, on the underside, abbreviated 

 behind. Hindwings short and rounded, with a yellow band as in cnllimorphn, but 

 this band not shaded with lilack on the underside, as in the tmde of Mr. Oherthiir's 

 species ; third basal segment of abdomen all black, not yellow. 



Hcth. Dutch New Guinea (Humboldt Bay, W. Doherty lerj., September to 

 October 1892; type); German New Guinea (Stephansort, Capt. Webster letj.). 



