74 Colonel C. Svvinhoe on 



Butler, but closer together and more compact ; liind-wings white, 

 with the usual black baud on the margins. 

 Expanse of wings 1^^ inches. 



Hab. RossEL Island, Louisiade Group. 



Its black colour, without any vein markings, separates it 

 from the mimdipicta group, which it otherwise somewhat 

 resembles. 



Deilemeua lacticinia. 



Pliahvna {Gcomctra) lacticinia, Cram., Pap. Exot., ii, pi. 128, 



f. E (1777). 

 Leptosoma lacticinia, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon., i, 



p. 141 (1892). 



Fifteen examples from Hong Kong, Canara, Cachar, 

 Malabar, Nilgiri Hills, Ceylon, and Penang ; the Penang 

 examples have the discal band of the fore-wings rather 

 wide, but seem otherwise identically the same as those 

 from India. 



Deilemera simulathix. 



Nyctcmcra simulatrix, Walker, xxxi, 198 (18(j4). 

 Leptosoma simulatrix, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxun., i, 

 p. 143 (1892). 



One example from Celebes. The type from Celebes 

 is in Mus. Oxon. 



Deilemera nigrovena, no v. (PI. IV, fig. 2.) 



$ . First two joints of palpi dull orange-yellow, last joint black, 

 head and thorax orange-yellow, one black spot on the frons, one 

 behind the base of antenna", two black l)ands on the collar, a spot on 

 each shoulder, and three longitudinal bands on the thorax ; abdomen 

 white above with black segmental bands, below slightly yellow 

 tinged, with the bands macular ; fore-wings black, the veins on the 

 basal half white, discal band composed of eight spots as in tmoidipida, 

 but well separated from each other by the veins, except the spot at 

 the end of the cell, which is joined to the spot outside the end ; 

 hind-wings white, with the usual broad marginal band, with all the 

 veins black ; veins 1, la, the median, and subcostal veins with a thin 

 l)and of black suffusion on each side. 



Expanse of wings 2{~ inches. 



Ra.h. South Celebes {Frnhstorfer). 

 One example. 



