70 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new 



surrounded by blackish and again by pale pinkish ; a duplex, 

 oblique, and highly curved line, centred with white from the 

 median vein near the base to the middle of the wing above 

 the hinder margin ; above this is a similar circular duplex 

 line outside the space round the orbicular, these lines more or 

 less indistinct; an obscure pale pinkish space on the hinder 

 margin beyond the middle ; marginal line black, inwardly 

 edged with pale pinkish on both sides; cilia brown: hind 

 wing dark grey, the outer margin brownish; outer marginal 

 line black, somewhat sinuous, outwardly edged with a pale 

 line ; cilia brown. 



Expanse of wings, ? , 1 inch. 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo. 



Gadirtha guineana, no v. 



d $ . Palpi greyish white, second joint black on, the sides; 

 head and thorax mixed grey and white ; a black stripe 

 behind the collar and one on each side of the thorax ; abdo- 

 men dark grey, with darker segmental bauds : fore wing with 

 the ground-c dour white, densely irrorated with pale choco- 

 late-brown ; costa with a large black antemedial patch and a 

 smaller curved subapical patch, and two black spots between 

 them ; orbicular and reniform round black rings, pale inside 

 and dull ochreous spot in their centres, the former small, the 

 latter very large ; black marks below the first patch, some 

 black spots in an oblique row in the disc, black marginal 

 lunules at the vein-ends, and a number of black spots close 

 together on the outer half of the hinder margin, above which 

 there is some whitish suffusion : hind wing pale grey, outer 

 margin broadly blackish ; cilia of both wings pinkish grey. 



Expanse of wings, <$ ? , 2-^-2 T 2 - inches. 



llab. Dinawa, 4000', Mt. Kebea, 6000', New Guinea 

 (A. E.Pratt). 



Several examples. Some of the specimens have a dark 

 central suffusion, somewhat resembling G. impingens, Walker ; 

 genitalia different (PI. IX. figs. 10 & 11) ; note the differ- 

 ence in the valvule, costa, uncus, and the extraordinary 

 development of the gnathos, which is new to us ; the tegumen 

 is also utterly different. 



Family Acontiidae. 

 Genus MAURILIA, Moschler. 

 M. tconica, Walker, is quite different from M. eervina, 



