( 415 ) 



5U. Anisozyga lenis spec. nov. 



(?, 34 mm. Very closel\' related to KiihlitKrata Warr. {Xov. Zool. vi. p. 327) 

 but smaller; otherwise the differences noticeable on the upper surface are slight. 

 Gronnd-colour slightly more greenish, the green markings a little less deep, hence 

 the contrast decidedly tooed down ; distal edge of median band of forewing and the 

 corresj)onding edge of green basal half of hindwing less deeply scalloped out between 

 R^ and R' and between M- and SM-; on hindwing also this green area is rather 

 more extended, and tliere is a small, only slightly broken reddish subapical blotch in 

 place of the " blackish " (purple-fnscous) dots of sublitarata. Underside withont 

 the olive basal snffusion, the thick olive-fuscous postmedian line which bounds it (or 

 which remains even when, as in some sabliturata from the Oetakwa River, the 

 suffusion is nearly obsolete) reduced to a dentate line from C to R^ ; the olive-fascons 

 snbmarginal band very much narrowed, even somewhat interrupted, widening merely 

 at costal extremity, especially on hindwing, and emitting no blotches proximally 

 between R- and R^ 



Dinawa, British New Guinea, 4O00 feet, August 1902 (A. E. Pratt). Type in 

 coll. Bethune-Baker. 



That this is not a local race oi suhliturata is proved — apart from the almost too 

 great differences in the position of the markings — by the occurrence of typical 

 sublitarata at the same time and place. 



51. Metacineta vernicoma spec nov. 



?, 3U mm. Structure and general coloration entirely agreeing with the other 

 species of the genus, hindwing not noticeably bent at R^, abdominal crests very 

 small, red, on a rather broad red mediodorsal stripe, wings less strigulated with 

 whitish. 



Forewing with costal edge whitish yellow, not white, not dusted with red except 

 at extreme base; discal dot small, red ; no other red spots ; no white si)ots at vein- 

 ends, a fine, interrupted red line at base of fringe, followed in fringe by red spots 

 opposite the veins. Hiiu/wiiig with similar discal dot and bordering. 



Under-surface paler, withont discal dots ; no red line at base of fringe, no red 

 dusting at liase of costa of forewing. 



SoQtheni Nigeria, January llMCi ((J. C. Dudgeon). Type in coll. Brit. Mus. 

 An extremely worn ? from tjie (Jban district. Southern Nigeria (1*. A. Talbot), also 

 [irobably belongs here. 



In the fore- as well as in the hindwing R- arises ignite near R'. 



52. Comibaena castaneata (Warr.). 



ComiiHlfditileff rjiHla/teu.ht. Warr., Nnr. Z<n>l. xiii. [>. W7 (I'.tOtl^. 



I'mbiilimrelcs iii/ulliiii Warr., ibid. xix. p. HO (l'.H2). 



I 'yrvhiimchix mnlamu(<i Prout, (!m. fns. \^l'^. p. 'iM (IIMu'). 



1 find that this very ilistinc't little species jiossesses a frenulum — slender and 

 colourless, but not extremely short. It is probably a very specialised develoi)ment 

 of Cnmihacna, with the five subcosfals and li' all stalked together and the <S 

 liindtibial process wauling. The wing-slia|ie and pattern give some suggestion of 

 the pictipennin group of that genus. 



