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2. Hindwing blackish fuscous with a yellow streak in disc ; f orewing with metallic 



streaks thick T. divitio&a 



Hindwing dark bronze fuscous without yellow; fore wing with metallic streaks 

 narrow T. elegans 



Tortyra elegans (Walsingham, 1909) 

 Figure 675 



Saphtha elegans Walsingham, 1909 [sic], in Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxon., 



vol. 2, p. 567 (cf, India, Andaman Is.). 

 Tortyra elegans. — Meyrick, 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 



13, p. 33; 1914, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 164, p. 19. 



Distribution: India, Ceylon, Andaman Is. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Palali, 2000 ft., 

 4.XII.1913 (A.E. Wileraan), 1 cf, without abdomen. Compared 

 with type in the British Museum. 



Tortyra divitiosa (Walker, 1864) 



Figures 335-337, 676 



Saptha divitiosa Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 30, 

 p. 1015 (cf, Ceram). 



Tortyra divitiosa. — Meyrick, 1907, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 32, 

 pp. 97, 99; 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 13, p. 33; 

 1914, Suppl. Ent., no. 3, p. 56; 1914, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, 

 fasc. 164, p. 19. — Durrant, 1915, in Ogilvie- Grant, Rep. British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union and WoUaston Exped . . . Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1913, vol. 

 2, pt. 15, p. 167— DiakonoflF, 1948, Treubia, vol. 19, p. 202; 1955, Verh. Ned. 

 Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 50, pt. 3, p. 25. 



Distribution: India, Moluccan Is., New Guinea, Formosa, etc. 



Material examined: Luzon: Mt. Makiling genit. slides 51809, 

 51829, Los Bafios, sHde 5178(f, Manila (Benguet) Laguimanoc 

 (Tayabas), Montalban, plains, Rizal pro v.; Mindanao, Kolambugan. 

 IX-IV. (Baker, R.A. Cushman, R.C. McGregor, H. Ricardo, H.E. 

 Milhron, C.S. Banks). 8 cf, 10 9 (USNM) (BMH). Also from 

 "New Britain, Talesea (AFE) 11.1925," 1 d' (Meyrick det., Meyrick 

 coll.). Calayan Is., 13.IX.1903 (R.C. McGregor), 1 d", genit. slide 

 5181. Palawan Is., Taytay, plains, 13.IV.1913 (A.E. Wileman), 1 cf . 



Tortyra macrospiUif new species 



Figures 368-369, 677 



Female, 18 mm. Head brilliant black, face iridescent green. Pal- 

 pus black. Antenna with basal 2/3 dilated by roughish scales above 

 and beneath, flattened laterally; blackish purple, mixed anteriorly 

 with white scales. Thorax deep pm*ple, tegulae and a narrow me- 

 dian streak brilliant iridescent gi'een. Abdomen purpUsh black. 



