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Of the all. rufgrisea there are three typical examples, all Si. Of this form 



ab. albigrisea iwv. 

 is a development ; the lirowii tints of the basal and maginal areas are darker ; while 

 the blue-grey of rujiyrisca gives place to white or bluish white, densely black- 

 speckled, which hue, instead of being restricted to the central area only, is extended 

 below vein 4 to the hindmargiu ; the cell-mark is a thick brown ring with 

 pale centre. 



5 3i, r?. 



ab. lacteata nov. 

 is a further development ; the black speckling is either quite absent or very scanty, 

 and except the basal and apical patch of forewing and a sliglit anal shade the 

 whole wing is bluish white, with the brown cell-mark conspicuous ; in the hind- 

 wing the whole basal half is white, and sometimes the marginal area below 

 middle ; abdomen white, peppered with grey. 

 1 cJ, 2 ? ?. 



ab. complicata nov. 

 stands somewhat by itself. Here the three black lines and the inner black edge of 

 the submargiual line stand out conspicuously from the ground-colour, which is 

 reddish fawn in the 6 and whitish, tinged with rufous, in the ?, and these are 

 crossed in both wings by black streaks from the cell-spot to hindmargin along 

 vein 4. 



1 cJ, 1 ?. 



ab. variegata nov. 



In this the dark and light shades are most mixed up together. The forewing 

 has the large black cell-mark followed by a whitish blotch before the dark blotch 

 following the outer line below costa ; before the submargiual line in both wings 

 there is a broader pale sinuous line from inner margins. The underside is much 

 darker, and in this and other respects it approaches the ab. nigrocdlata from 

 ISuer, Mefor. 



All the examples, 5 in number, are ? ? . 



ab. nigrosticta nov. 

 This has the whole surface of both wings dark grey-brown, thickly dark- 

 speckled, with no light markings except a fine submargiual line, the usual cross- 

 lines indistinct, and marked only by black spots on veins ; but the large round 

 cell-spots and the luuules preceding the submargiual line, with a subapical streak 

 beyond it, are all conspicuously velvety black ; the basal segment of abdomen with 

 a broad velvety black ring. 



1 cJ, 1 ¥. 



ab. albimaculata nov. 



This form corresponds to the aberration from Fergusson Island called macidata, 

 in which the anal blotches in both wings and an apical blotch in forewing are pale 

 oclireous ; in the New Guinea form these blotches are white, and other white 

 blotches are developed : one before first line near base, one below costa in the bend 

 of the outer line, a curved fascia beyond first line, and the whole base of hiudwing 

 sometimes all in the same e.xample. On the other hand, in two of the dark exaujples 

 the white blotches at anal angles and apex, though present, are masked and obscured 



