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Antennee whitish-ochreous, base reddish. Thorax and abdomen 

 whitish-oehreous, faintly brownish-tinged. Legs whitish-ochreous, 

 irregularly spotted and barred with deep crimson-red. Fore wings 

 with costa straight, only arched immediately before apex, hind 

 margin strongly bowed, oblique, irregularly crenulate ; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 12 and then with 10 ; whitish-ochreous, slightly 

 brownish-tinged, thinly strewn with fine transverse blackish 

 strigulse, and a few ferruginous scales ; costal edge narrowly pale 

 ferruginous, marked on anterior half with some black and deep red 

 strigulse; a small dark spot on costa before one-third, indicating 

 first line ; a narrow transverse ferruginous discal mark in middle ; 

 a series of cloudy dark ferruginous -reddish dots from an inwardly 

 obhque blackish mark on costa at three-fourths to inner margin at 

 two-thirds, slightly outwards-curved, less distinct and rather 

 sinuate inwards on lower half ; a cloudy ferruginous-reddish shade 

 near beyond and parallel to this series on lower fourth ; cilia 

 ferruginous-red, tips white, dotted with blackish opposite veins. 

 Hind wings with apex angularly prominent, hind margin slightly 

 rounded, waved, with a short angular projection in middle ; colour, 

 strigulse, and cilia as in fore wings, but apical dots of cilia red ; 

 posterior series of dots as in fore wings, but more indistinct. 



Port Moresby (Koivald, Sayer) ; three specimens. 

 BOARMIAD^. 



TiGRIDOPTERA, H.-S. 



114. Tigridoptera cyanoxantlia, n. s. 

 $ , 52 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae dark grey. Thorax 

 ochreous-yellow, anterior margin dark grey. Abdomen ochreous- 

 yellow. Legs grey, posterior tibine pale yellowish. Fore wings 

 with costa gently arched, hind margin obUquely rounded ; subbasal 

 circiilar excavation beneath strongly marked ; deep ochreous- 

 yellow ; a thick blackish-grey streak along costa from base, 

 uniting with a very broad rather dark bluish-grey hind-marginal 

 band, on costa extending to near middle, gradually narrowed to 

 one-sixth at anal angle, anterior edge somewhat emargiuate above 

 inner margin, suffusedly irrorated with blackish on margms, 

 especially towards anterior margin near costa, and on a subterminal 

 series of very ill-defined cloudy spots ; cilia bluish-grey, with pale 

 dots on veins. Hind wings with hind margin rounded ; deep 

 ochreous-yellow ; a moderate bluish-grey hind-marginal band, 

 covering about one-fourth of wing, nearly evenly broad throughout, 

 suffusedly irrorated with blackish on margins, more broadly 

 anteriorly ; cilia bluish-grey, with whitish dots on veins. 



