258 Col. C. Swinhoe on new 
central band reduced to a thin lunule on the costa, followed 
by three small spots and some patches of blue atoms; a com- 
plete submarginal set of reddish-ochreous lunules and cilia as 
above. 
Expanse of wings 4,2, inches. 
Ké Island (Halliburton). One example. 
I do not know any near ally. 
Genus MENELAIDES, Hiibn. 
Menelaides thessalia, sp. n. 
¢. Black ; head, face, collar, and tip of abdomen crimson, 
thorax, rest of abdomen, and both wings above pure bright 
black. Fore wings with whitish streaks in the interspaces 
from the discoidal cell to the margin, and a short broad streak 
in the interno-median interspace. Hind wings with a patch 
of white in the centre, divided into seven long spots by the 
discocellular and median veinlets ; a small crimson streak at 
the bottom of the spot near the abdominal margin ; a submar- 
ginal series of very large crimson lunular spots in the inter- 
spaces, decreasing in size upwards. Underside: thorax with 
crimson sides, abdomen with crimson bands, legs black ; fore 
wings as above, but some short whitish streaks extend into 
the outer portions of the cell; hind wings as above, but the 
crimson spots very bright and large; tails almost non- 
existent, the wing being produced very slightly. 
[ixpanse of wings 4;7,—4;%5 inches. 
Ké Island (Halliburton). ‘Two examples. 
Above it is something like J/. polyphontes, Boisd., without 
tails ; it is, however, much blacker, and the white streaks do 
not extend into the cell, The male will probably be very 
similar, the sexes not varying much in this group. 
HETEROCERA. 
Family Drepanulide. 
Genus Drepana, Schrank. 
Drepana berenica, sp. n. 
3. Red, tinged with grey and sparsely striated with black; 
plumes of antenne grey, palpi and legs crimson; wings 
with but very few markings, some black dots near the costa 
and a few here and there over both wings; an indistinct 
blackish smear at end of cell in fore wings and an indistinct 
blackish streak upwards from the hinder margin near the 
