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27. Aeolocbroma bakeri spec. nov. 



S, 34 mm. Face fnscons with a broad white bar across forehead (containing a 

 small fuscous mark at ujiper edge) and a narrow one at lower extremity. Palpns 

 fuscous above and on outer side, pale ochreous beneath. Vertex greenish ochreons. 

 Antenna shortly and evenly ciliated (the cilia not disposed in fascicles as in the typical 

 species). Thorax green ; patagia very variegated, roughly in bands of green, white, 

 black, red, and again at the tip5 white. Abdomen ochreous tinged with green. 



Foreiciiiij with termen slightly more crenulate than in praslna Warr. {Xon. 

 Zool. iii. p. 282), more definitely bent at R^ ; coloration somewhat as ia prasina, the 

 dark shades deeper and richer ; basal patch broken and ill-defined, bright ochreous 

 mixed with reddish and black, the strongest projection behind cell ; median area 

 even broader costally than in pragi'/m, the two startini;- from enlarged black costal 

 spots ; anteriorly tliis area is of the ground-colour, the dark shade being confined to 

 the posterior half and some projections anteriorly beside the lines ; proximal dark 

 shade of the snbterminal interrupted, but strongly dififased proximally in posterior 

 half of wing, nearly meeting the second line ; the jjale patch from second line to 

 termen between R^ and M' (indicated in many of the genus) extremely conspicuous; 



terminal dark line thick. llindwing as far as the postmedian (which is scarcely 



dentate) strongly shaded with the dark colour, bat with a quadrate whitish mark 

 behind the cell-spot, much as in ame(I/j/stin\i ; palesubterminal broad, well developed 

 from R- almost to inner margin, its dark proximal shading strong. 



Underside similar to that of intima, the ochreous parts coarsely though sparsely 

 speckled with fuscous, the forewing less variegated, without definite red line, hind- 

 wing with the line less red (more fuscous), thicker, roundly bent, not angled, a large 

 dark discal sjiot present, distal area more fuscous. 



Diuawa, British New Guinea, 40U0 ft., August liJU2 (A. E. Pratt). Type in 

 coll. Bethune-Baker. 



2s. Aeolocbroma amethystiua ( Warr.). 



Of this species Warren (Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 123) knew the <S only, described from 

 Biagi. I have recently seen 3 J'(5', 2 ? ? from Mount Goliath, January — February 

 1011. The S possibly shows indications of belonging to a different rase from 

 Warren's, the green colour above beingr ,.ther more restricted, the hindwing beneath 

 paler, especially the snbterminal and terminal bauds, but tlie difterences are so very 

 slight that I abstain from imposing a subspecific name. The S antenna of tliis 

 species is only very minutely ciliated, without the fascicles of the tvjiical group; 

 termen of both wings sliglitly more markedly crenulate. 



?. <J2 mm. Larger than the (^, of a paler, more reddish purple, the darker 

 bhaaing distally to the first line and proximally to the second scarcely a|)preciable ; 

 the lines tiiemselves broader, ('s]iecially at tlie margins; the wiiite discal spots 

 greenish, that of forewing joined witii a broad irregular green patch from costa ; 

 green shadiiig between costa and 8( ! anteriorly to this patch ; a green costal patch 

 from apex to snbterminal ; a small green terminal spot between H' ami M'. 

 Ilitnlwing also with cell-spot indistinct and green, a very small greiMi terminal spot 

 hetwiM-ii It" and M-. Underside with the ivA [jarts much less bright, foi'cwing with 

 the white apical patch obsolete, the discal spot and green costal patch adjoining it 

 nearly as above, some strong black snbterminal and terminal nuirkings. llindwing 

 with similar black markings, in one exam[)le weaker. 



