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SOME NEW BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 

 By the [Iom. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 



1. Hypocysta leucomelas spec. nov. 



(?. Body olive-black, shaded with grey. Antenna ochraceons beneath, Wings 

 sooty black above and below. 



Upperside. Forewiug without markings, shorter and more rounded than in 



H. osyris ; SC^ stalked with SC* ° ; cell broad, D^ less than half the length of 



partition M' — M^ of M, more oblique than in os'/ris. Hindwing : a broad white 



band from SO- to abdominal margin, gradually and slightly widening behind, its 

 pro.ximal edge straight, crossing M midway between base and M-, its outer edge 

 evenly convex, not at all angnlate, crossing R^ near base ; the wing more rounded 

 than in osijris, the abdominal margin decidedly shorter. 



Underside. Forewing as above. Hindwing : white band a little narrower 



than above ; distal area with two metallic plumbeous lines, one proximal, the other 

 distal, connected behind M^, interrupted anteriorly ; between these lines the wing 

 is dark clay-colonr, and. there are four blue dots in this area, besides one large 

 circular eye-spot, which is situated in cellule R' — BI', but extends beyond both 

 these veins ; the eye-spot black, encircled by a pale ochraceons line and centred 

 with a tiny white dot. 



Length of forewing, 10 mm. 



Ilah. Aroa R., British New Guinea (^Veiske). 



One (?. 



2. Hypanartia splendida spec. nov. 



$. Frons and sides of sterna tawny ; upperside of thorax black, clothed with 

 green hairs, abdomen olive-black ; tibiae and tarsi luteous ; palpi grey. 



Wings, iipperxide, rufous orange. Forewing : a bar at apical third of cell, 



a discal band outside cell, including vitreous spots, a postdiscal curved band of bars 

 from costal margin to R^, and a submargiual line parallel to distal margin, black ; 

 costal edge from cell to apex of wing shaded with black ; cross-veins thinly black ; 

 vitreous spots four in number, the upper three close together, the second the largest 

 of them, spot 4 between M' and W, the largest of all ; base of wing shaded with 

 olive-black like base and abdominal area of hindwing ; distal margin angnlate 



between SC and R', strongly and evenly rounded from M' backwards. Hindwing : 



upper angle shallowly sinuate, <listal margin rounded from S(''- down to R-, posterior _ 

 ur('u from R'' backwards strongly produced distad, the tail 13 mm. long measured 

 at anterior edge, only 'J mm. measured behind ; a discal band, as prolongation of 



