38 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



185. Tagiades korela louisa Swinh. 



Tagiades louisa Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xx. p. 430 (1907) (Rossel Isld.). 



2 c?o^ Base Camp, Nov. 1912 ; 2 ?? Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. 



186. Tagiades martinus Plotz. 



Tagiades martinus Plotz, Jahrh. Nass. Ver. Nat., xxxvii. p. 47, No. 32 (1884) (Philippines). 



1 c? 1 ? Base Camp, Nov. 1912 ; 1 ? Utakwa River, 2500-30CO ft., Feb. 1913. 



( 187. Tagiades persimilis sp. nov. 



<S- Very similar to martinus, but smaller and darker. The white band on the hind- 

 wing is also much narrower. — ? similar, but browner in colour. 



Expanse 44-47 mm. Length of forewing 20-21 mm. 



1 (J 1 ? Base Camp, Nov. 1912 — March 1913 ; 1 <? (type) Utakwa River, sea level, 

 Nov. 1912. 



Pamphilinae 



There are 20 species in the collection, of which 9 are new species and 2 new 

 subspecies. 



188. Telesto wollastoni sp. nov. 



S. Antennae black, club white below; head, thorax and abdomen deep blackish 

 chocolate brown. Wings above, deep blackish chocolate brown with white fringe. 

 Wings helow, forewing basal half obliquely, except costa, chocolate brown strongly 

 glossed with purple, apical half and costa glossy steel green washed with blue ; hindwing 

 glossy steel green with 3 whitish blue postdiscal spots. 



Expanse 48 mm. Length of forewing 21 mm. 



1 <? Base Camp, March 1913. 



189. Telesto bicolor sp. nov. 

 (?. Uniform brown-black above and below ; hindwings with broad white fringe. 

 Expanse 33-40 mm. Length of forewing 15-18 mm. 



1 S (type) Snow Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913 ; 1 o Utakwa River, 

 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



190. Padraona tabla Swinh. 



Padraona tabla Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi. p. 616 (1905) (New Guinea). 

 This species appears to vary considerably in the amount of fulvous in and above the 

 cell of the forewings and along vein 1. 



