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and abdomen aLove concoloroiis witli wings, l)eneat,h (and on sides of abdomen) 

 bright golden yellow, the breast pink. 



Wings very varied with pink, white and blue-grey scales, and in places with 



olive-ochreous ; lines and some costal spotting on forewing black. Forewinq with 



a line close to base, obsolete costally, ontangled on M and SM- ; antemedian from 

 two-sevenths costa to near one-third of posterior margin, indented on veins, 

 excnrved between ; jmstmedian from nearly two- thirds costa to beyond middle of 

 posterior margin, commencing about vertically, very gently incurved between the 

 radials, markedly toothed on R'' and M', then retracted basewards but with a 

 further tooth on M-, approximately parallel with antemedian (3 — 4 mm. distant 

 from it) from behind M^ to posterior margin ; discal mark elongate, ill-defined ; 

 snbterminal line whitish, consisting of a series of long teeth ; terminal line black, 

 slightly interrnpted anteriorly ; between the basal and antemedian lines there is an 

 ill-defined whitish band; ]iroxiraally to the antemedian and distally to the post- 

 median (especially in the S $) narrow, ill-defined olive-uchreous bands, and some 



similar shading appears in the distal area, especially in the middle. Hindwing 



with the postmedian, snbterminal and terminal lines, the first-named narrowly 

 followed by ivhitiah ; distal area as on forewing ; tufts of raised scales mostly dark 

 grey ; abdominal margin and its fringe bright golden yellow. 



Underside of forewing mostly pink in proximal half, costally olive-ochreous or 

 bright yellow, a large roundish black discal spot, followed by a small white patch ; 

 a velvety blackish, violet-mixed distal band, leaving free a small pale apical space. 

 Hindwing beneath bright golden yellow in proximal half, then narrowly white, 

 distally broadly blackish, less intense and more mixed with violet terminally. 



The sole ? before me, besides its larger size, is characterised by a much 

 stronger admixture of blue-grey above (here almost black), especially between 

 postmedian line and termen, though leaving on forewing a pale apical patch. 



Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., 

 October — December 1910 (A. S. Meek). Type i and a ? in coll. Rothschild. Also 

 a S from the Upper Setekwa River, September 1010, in coll. Rothschild, and one 

 from Mount Kebea, British New Guinea, 3600 ft., July 1003, in coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. 



Resembles the purptirijera form of cmiliarid Guen. ; termen of forewing 

 slightly more obliqne, nnder-surface of forewing with the purple mostly replaced by 

 pink, the subcostal yellow colouring restricted ; undcr-surface of hindwing without 

 discal spot, the yellow gfuerally restricted, a better developed white band inter- 

 vening before the black border. 



'Z'Z. Hypodoxa multicolor ab. circumsepta ub. nov. 



?. Differs from Warren's type {Noc. Zool. vi. \). 17) in having the gruund- 

 colour slightly paler, the forewing beyond the postmedian line and nearly the 

 whole of the hindwing suffused with dark purple-brown or red-brown ; on the 

 forewing a patch at ajiex, one on mid-termen and a small one at tornus remain of 

 the ground-colour ; on th(^ liindwing one at mid-termen and a smaller one at tornus, 

 also a part of the patch of raised scales. 



Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New (Juinea, 350U ft., 

 November 190S — January 1009 (type) ; near Oetakwa lliver, Snow Mountains, 

 Dntch New (iuinea, October — December lOlll ; botli in coll. Uotiiscliiid, 



