488 Lord Rothschild on new Heterocera. 
bands of rufous-orange below median to inner margin, much 
angled, waved, excised, and partially joined. Hind wings 
sooty slate-grey, with white veins ; a broken irregular post- 
median band, broader between vein 2 and abdominal margin ; 
some white spots at end of veins. 
Length of fore wing 26 mm..; expanse 56°5 mm. 
Hab. Tali, Yunnan. 
DEPALPATA, gen. nov. 
This genus is nearest to Burgena. 
Proboscis minute ; palpi with second and third joints 
aborted, minute, and curved downwards; frons smooth ; 
autenne almost simple; tibize smooth, the spurs minute, the 
lind tibiag with terminal spurs only. 
Fore wing: vein 2 from long before angle of cell, 3 from 
close to angle, 4 and 5 from angle, 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 
9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing: 2 from well 
before angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from 
middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 
the cell near base only; underside with whole inner area 
clothed with rough androconia extending into lower end of 
cell and to vein 7. 
Depalpata mirabilis, sp. n. 
6. Antenne black; pectus orange-yellow ; frons and 
vertex black ; thorax velvety black; collar and edges of 
tegule yellow; abdomen black, strongly glossed with greenish 
steel-blue ; anal tuft golden-orange. 
Fore wing velvety black, an oblique creamy antemedian 
band. Hind wing black, intensely shot and glossed with 
blue; a large pure white subbasal patch in cell and a smaller 
one below cell; large tufts of rough sooty-black hair on 
each side of vein 1 6; tornus whitish. 
Underside: abdomen as above, but with a large white 
patch on third segment. Iore wing sooty-black with dull 
blue gloss ; antemedian band as above, but divided into two, 
and with an irregular white expansion distad below vein 2; 
on the base of the cell and on costa a white dot ; beyond the 
discocellulars an irregular large white patch extending from 
subcostal to vein 3. Hind wings sooty-black glossed with 
dull blue ; whole area below vein 7 covered with a dense 
felting of rough whitish androconia except a patch of white 
and a spur of dark colour in cell. 
Length of fore wing 29 mm. ; expanse 65 mm. 
Hab. Hydrographer Mts., S.E. British New Guinea, 
2500 ft., March 1918 (ichorn Bros. Coll.). 
