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of fifth segment. Forelegs brownish-grey, apices of tibiae 

 and tarsal joints whitish ; (other legs broken). Forewing-* 

 triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, 

 termen slightly sinuate beneath apex, then strongl}^ bowed, 

 oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, markings pale-fuscous ; 

 four rectangular costal spots, first near base, second at J, 

 third before middle, fourth, rather larger, at | ; an oblique 

 streak from mid-dorsum to beneath | costa ; a subapical 

 blotch connected with mid-termen ; some short transverse 

 strigulse dispersed in disc ; cilia whitish barred with fuscous 

 on veins 2, 3, 4, and 7. Hindwings with termen doubly 

 sinuate ; colour and strigulse as torewings ; a transverse 

 fuscous streak before middle ; a second streak from tornus 

 along termen for a short distance ; cilia whitish. Underside 

 similar but groundcolour paler, markings dark-fuscous 

 and more clearly defined. 



My example corresponds closely to Swinhoe's descrip- 

 tion, except that in this the ground colour is " orange-red." 



N.Q., Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, in January ; 

 one specimen received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Also from 

 New Guinea. 



Rhodoneura molybditis, n. sp. 



/noXv^dirig, leaden. 



9 18 mm. Head brownish-ochreous ; face fuscous. 

 Palpi pale fuscous, lower edge whitish. Antennae whitish- 

 ochreous. Thorax fuscous-brown ; tegulae brownish- 

 ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous partly suffused with 

 fuscous. Legs whitish-ochreous ; anterior pair fuscous with 

 whitish annulations. Forewings obovate, costa straight 

 to near apex, apex rounded, termen sinuate beneath apex, 

 strongly bowed on vein 3, oblique ; leaden-fuscous with 

 obscure ochreous reticulations towards margins, on costa 

 these are more conspicuous and whitish ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, barred with dark-fuscous at apex and broadly so 

 opposite veins 3 and 4. Hindwings with termen sinuate 

 beneath apex and bowed on vein 4 ; ochreous finely 

 reticulated with fuscous ; three fuscous fasciae from doisum 

 at base, middle, and tornus, reaching about middle of disc ; 

 cilia ochreous with some obscure fuscous bars, a-pices 

 whitish. Underside whitish-ochreous ; forewings with 



