5 it PIIAL.TNOTDIDjB. 



beyond the cell near outer edge of the blue patch and small spots 

 below veins 4 and 3 ; cilia with white patches below apex and at 

 vein 1. Underside of fore wing with the base silvery blue ; hind 

 wing with the basal area silvery blue, expanding on inner area to 

 the postmedial white band ; cilia with white patch below apex and 

 points at veins 4, 3, 2, 1. 



Hal. Br. New Gvixea, Angabunga E. {Meek), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. JEsop. 52 rnillim. 



*44 1. Odice palaea. 



Argyrolepidia palasa, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 473 (1905), & xiii. 

 pi. 3. f. 15 ; Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xi. Ind.-Austr. ii. p. 22, pi. 3 a. 



$ . Head and thorax deep red-brown ; a white line behind the 

 eyes ; antennae with the basal joint white in front ; palpi orange at 

 base, the 2nd joint with some white scales in front and at extremity ; 

 pectus and femora deep orange, the tibia? and tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown with blue-white segmental 

 lines. Fore wing deep red-brown with indistinct paler oblique bar 

 at middle of cell and pale discoidal bar with very indistinct oblique 

 band from it to vein 2. Hind wing black with large oblique metallic 

 blue patch from middle of costa to below vein 2, its inner edge 

 slightly angled inwards below the cell ; a white mark on cilia at 

 submedian fold. Underside of fore wing with the bar at middle of 

 cell and postmedial band white ; hind wing with the basal area 

 metallic blue, its outer edge excurved on inner half, a blue spot 

 beyond upper angle of cell and bar between veins 4 and 2. 



Hal. Be. New Guinea, Angabunga E. (Meek), type t 2 m 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 50 rnillim. 



45. Odice pamphila, insert (syn.): — 

 subsp. madina, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xi. Tnd.-Austr. ii. p. 22 (1912). 

 Bueu, Mt. Mada (Dumas), type f d in Coll. Rothschild. 



*45 a. Odice ombirana. (Plate LXX. fig. 5.) 



Argyrolepidia pamphila, ombiranus, Jordan, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 161 (1906). 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown ; frons with lateral white 

 spots ; antenna' with the basal joint white in front and white point 

 behind, a white line behind eyes ; palpi with some whitish on 1st 

 and 2nd joint in front and behind ; pectus and hair on femora 

 orange; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen with blue-white seg- 

 mental lines, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black-brown ; a 

 subbasal metallic blue point below costa and antemedial points below 

 costa and above vein 1 ; an oblique white striga at middle of cell ; 

 an oblique postmedial white band from vein 7 to 2 with waved 

 outer edge; a small blue spol above tornus; cilia white towards 

 apex. Hind wing black-brown ; some blue scales at lower angle of 



