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whitish iniirginal area of rorcwini;- belon- much broader. Mesothorarin tcfcnla 

 wifhont greenish olive-hrowii sfrijie. Foretiliia with very few spines. 



c?. Eightli alidoniiiial sternite mesially produced into a lobe which is bent 

 dorsad and is shallowly siiinate, witii the angles ronndcd (PI. XXII. f. 22). 

 Havpe (PI. XXXI. f. 1 1) consisting nf a distally raised ventral ridge and an obliqne 

 ventro-dorsal one, which ridges join distally; the dorsal hook of Kiibocellatn is absent. 

 Penis-sheath as in auhoccHrila. Tenth sternite differing in the two lobes not being 

 so far apart and having a triangular shape fPl. XXIII. f. 14). 

 Early stages not known. 

 //'//'. IMolnccas : Ternate ; Ambointi. 

 In the Tring llnsenm 'i S S from : Amliuina. 



Tiie tyiie of wniifcrvciu differs from onr Araboina specimens in the forewing 

 having a black sjiot on the disc between ]\I' and M-, in the discal line of the hind- 

 wing being a little more distinctly donble behind, in the nnderside b 'ing deeper 

 lawny in the snbmarginal region of the forewing and in the marginal nrea of the 

 hindwing, and in the tenth tergite being broader vertically at ape.x. Possibly 

 (here is a northern and a southern subspecies {aonif. spmiffn-rnt: and annjf. 

 aM>jni/»r»s/.-i), as is mostly the case in the Lepidnptera of the Moluccas. 



Siiborellata, n/'iiiifrn-i'iiH and r/o//^r/^/ apparently replace e leh other. It must 

 be left to farther researches based upon a larger material from more localities of the 

 Pa]iuan Subregion, to decide whether we have to do with three specifically distinct 

 insects, or with two (one Indo-Malayan, the other Pajinan), or only with one. 



171. Oxyambtilyx dohertyi. 



Ainliihi.r liirUila, Swinhoe («o / Butler, 1875), Ciil. l.rp. Uet. O.r. i, p. lTj. n. 100 (1892) (partim). 

 *.h»A»/.(/.c ilohnli/i Rothschild, Xnv. Zooi.. i. p. 87 (1894) (Humlinldt Bay, Dutch X. O. :— JIiis. 



Tring) ; id., I.r. ii. t. '.1. f. .". (18'.I6). 

 *.l iiiliiili/.r iiiiiiiilifeiii Swinhoe, I.r. (1892) (N. Guinea ; noni. nud. ; — Mus. Ox., haec spec, teste Jordan, 

 1902) 



(J?. Anterior tibia without spines; long terminal spur of hindtii)ia only 

 one-fifth shorter than the Hrst tiirsal segment. Forewing with one snbbasal 

 jiostcellnlar spot, which is often constricted at SM-, sometimes quite circular ; ai)ex 

 as prominent as in snhocdlafa, hinder margin longer and distal margin accordingly 

 shorter than in the Indo-Malayan species. D' of hindwing shorter than D". 



i. Eighth sternite not lobed mesially, bnt sharjily sinuate (PI. XXII, f 24). 

 Tenth sternite (PI. XXIII, f, 15) less deeply divided than in xiiboceUdtn and 

 armiferronit, the lobes closer together, either triangular or broadly rounded-truncate. 

 Patch of friction-scales of clasper smaller than in suhocvUafa, the scales larger, 

 harpe (PI. XXXI, f. 12) similar to tliat of srinij'cnwns, shorter. Penis-sheaf li 

 produced into an irregularly sixiou-shapeil process (PI. XXX, f, 2), which is 

 denticulate at the edge : the armature within the .sheath similar to that of 

 MiboccUfttu and semiferrrns, but the teeth longer and fewer in number. 



?, Eighth tergite less minute than in saboceUata. Vaginal jilute with the 

 edges of the vaginal cavity quite simple (PI. XV. f, 2), 



Early stages not known. 



Huh. New Guinea and neighliouring islands : Solomon Islands. 



Two subspecies : 



a. 0. (lolicrtiji (hhrrtiii. 

 *.liiihiili/x doliFiti/l Uothsi^hild, I.r. 



cJ ? . Greenish olive stripe across the mesothorncic tegnia sharjily defined, 



