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 79. Holorista seminigra spec. nov. 



Foreicing : pale sliiniug green, crossed bj' a succession of olive-green irregu- 

 larly sinuate and dentated lines ; three close to base, five forming a central fascia, 

 the inner two and outer three coalescing on costa into blotches ; fonr beyond, of 

 which the second is thickest, the fourth not dentate and submargiual ; a row of 

 large black spots at the vein-ends ; fringe pale green ; the lines beyond the middle 

 are more strongly dentate and sinuous. 



Hiudwinff : with the costal half whitish, the lower half blackish, the limiting 

 line straight ; basal lobe small and semi-erect, the margin below it distorted, the 

 usual three outer lobes ill-detiiied, tlie clefts being short, and the lobes overlapping ; 

 fringe pale towards costa, blackish below ; a curved black pencil of hairs from 

 base of lobe as in fasciutu Moore ; palpi very long, green, the terminal segment 

 darker ; antennae blackish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green. In the ? the 

 central fascia is purplish, the third line from base and the second thicker line 

 beyond central fascia purplish-tinged, as is the marginal area. 



Underside greenish cinereous, darker in forewing ; the lower half of hindwing 

 of 6 deep black. 



Expanse of wings : cJ, 2(5 mm. ; ? , 29 mm. 



1 (J,l ?. 



Subfamily DEILINIINAE. 

 80. Aplochlora subflava AVarr. 

 This species was descril)ed from a ? only (cf. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 392) from 

 Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea. It was distinguished from A. vicilaca Wlk. 

 by the deep yellow underside. In his paper in Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902. p. 603. 604. 

 Col. Swinhoe sinks it to vin'laca, on the ground of its being faded. I have just seen 

 a c? from the Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, taken by Meek in February 

 1903, which effectually disproves the correctness of this opinion. The insect in 

 question, excei)t that it has lost the abdomen and hindlegs, is in good condition. 

 Both wings are dull olive-green with rather large purplish cell-spots ; the costa 

 of forewing thickly striated with purplish ; the hindmargin with three purplish 

 marginal spots below costa ; both wings with traces of a iwstmedian line of 

 liurjilish striae, incomplete in forewing, curved and entire in hindwing. The 

 underside of both wings is deep dull yellow, becoming red-tinged towards hind- 

 margins. But what separates this S at once is the size and structure of the 

 hindwing : this is disproportionately large for the size of the forewing, and the 

 inner margin is developed into a large fla]) with a kink on its edge at one-third from 

 base, into which the shortened and contorted submedian veins run ; this flap, though 

 coloured green above, like the rest of wing, is hollowed out beneath, whitish, not 

 yellow, in colour, and clothed with pale hairs. The insect is probably peculiar to 

 New Guinea. Besides the original ? type from Humboldt Bay I have seen only 

 one other, taken, also by Meek in February, in 1899 at Milne Bay, British New 

 Gninea, 



81. Eugnesia decolorata spec. nov. 

 Fivrwivff : crcam-culour, dotted with dull reddish fuscous ; tiic two lines grey ; 

 the first at one-fourth, vertical, but outcnrved aliove and below median ; the second, 

 nearly Btraight, at two-thirds ; both with black dots on (he veins and on costa and 



