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base of fore wing, in the quite different inner line of both wings 

 (strongly outcurved in submedian area) and especially in the 

 shorter palpus. Both species are aberrant in shape and in 

 having DC'' of the hind wing not very oblique. 



Rkomhorlsta megaspilaria <fibhosa, Prout, nov. subsp. 



Like Guenee's type form except in the shape of the wings ; fore 

 wing with termen strongly l^ulged in middle, very oblique below, 

 tornus sometimes considerably cut away ; hind wing somewhat 

 narrower than in the type. 



Fak-Fak, Dutch New Guinea, 1700 ft., December, 1907. 

 Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Thalassodes eumixis, Prout, nov. sp. 



<? . 40-43 mm. Extremely like TJi. alhifusa, Warr. Nov. Zool. 

 iii. 293, of which I at first regarded it as a local race ; but as I have 

 learned that alhifusa also occurs at Fak-Fak, I believe it will prove 

 a separate species. Differs in its usually larger size" and restriction 

 of the white markings; head nearly all green, only venj narrowlij 

 white between the antennae ; antennal shaft with less white than in 

 alhifusa ; wings with the white markings narrowed and a good deal 

 dusted with green. 



Fak-Fak, Dutch New Guinea, 1700 ft., December, 1907 

 (A. E. Pratt). Type and two other males in coll. L. B. Prout; 

 others seen. Also from British New Guinea. 



Thalassodes interalbata, Prout, nov. sp. 



^ . 45 mm. Shape and structure normal, palpus with third 

 joint quite moderate, hind tibia dilated with hair-pencil, termen of 

 hind wing with elbow moderately pronounced. Face green ; vertex 

 and occiput white; palpus green, white l^eneath. Antenna ochreous, 

 proximally white-scaled. Thorax and al)domen green above, white 

 beneath. Fore leg ochreous, other legs whitish. Wings of the same 

 green as Th. alhifusa ; fore wing with two broad white bands which 

 are coarsely speckled with green in places, especially at their 

 boundaries, hence rather ill-detined ; the antemedian band from near 

 base, reaching on costa to nearly one-fourth, on inner margin to 

 nearly one-third ; the postmedian occupying about one-liali' of the 

 terminal third of wing, shading oft' into green (white-speckled) 

 costally and distally ; fringe concolorous with termen ; no cell-spot. 

 Hind wing with similar white bands ; the first occupying the cell 

 and approximately the inner-marginal one-third of wing, the margin 

 itself narrowly green ; second band continuing the postmedian of 

 fore wing, running near the distal margin and terminating at R'' ; 

 fringe as in fore wing ; no cell-spot. Under side similar, but much 

 paler. 



Fak-Fak, Dutch New Guinea, 1700 ft., January to February, 

 1908 (A. E. Pratt). Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



'■'■'■ I have seen one undersized example, no larger than average alhifusa. 



