72 Colonel C. Svvinhoe on 



One example from Java. 



Not the same as kondehuvi, Swinhoe, as Pagenstecher 

 says : that species being more nearly allied to distinda, 

 Walker. 



Deilemera sexmaculata. 



Lcptosoma sexmaculatum, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), xix, 



p. 222 (1887). 

 Nyctcmcra aolxnsis, Druce, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 573. 



Two males and four females, Alu, Solomon Islands, 

 including Butler's type ; Druce's type came from Guadal- 

 canar, Solomon Islands ; there is much less white in the 

 females than in the males, especially on the hind-wings. 



Deilemera extendens. 



Nydcmcra cj:tcndcns,y^^\k.<dv, vii, 1666 (1856). 



Pag., Jahrb.Nass. Ver. Naturk., 1901, 

 p. 127, pi. 2, f. 7. 

 Nydcmcra horitcs, Druce, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 573. 



Walker's type from New Hebrides and nine examples 

 from Alu, Solomon Islands; Druce's type, a female, also 

 came from the Solomon Islands. I have it in my coll. 

 from Treasury Isl. and New Georgia. 



Deilemera syrnia, no v. (PI. Ill, f 6.) 



9. Palpi with tlie first joint dull orange, second and third joints 

 black, large deep black spots edged with pale orange, filling up all 

 the spaces, one on the frons, one behind the base of antenn;e, two on 

 the collar, one on each shoulder, and three longitudinal stripes 

 similarly edged filling up the entire surface of the thorax ; abdomen 

 black, tip ochreous, segmental bands thin and white above, broad 

 and ochreous beneath ; fore-wings deep black, vein 1 and the median 

 vein slightly ochreous towards the base, a discal white band, divided 

 by the veins into seven spots, much indented, almost dislocated at 

 the lower end of the cell, the iipper spot near the costa very small, 

 the fourth and seventh much smaller than the rest, the seventh just 

 below vein 2 ; hind-wings with a liroad deep Idack marginal band, 

 scooped inwards from veins 2 to 5, extending along the costa and 

 partly up the abdominal margin. 



Expanse of wings 1 i'*g inches. 



Hah. Fergusson Island (3Iccli). 

 Two examples. 



