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metallic blue-black, the costal, inner and terminal areas with pale 

 yellow patches leaving radiating blue-black bars and streaks ; the 

 costal area with small subbasal and antemedial yellow spots 

 followed by a point, a medial bar followed by a striga, then a point, 

 a triangular patch towards apex followed by an oblique bar and 

 triangular apical patch ; the terminal area with oblique streak 

 below apex followed by a spot, spots below veins 4, 3, 2 and an 

 oblique bar at torn us ; the inner area with antemedial triangular 

 spot followed by a striga, a broad medial bard from submedian 

 fold to inner margin followed by two stria? and a triangular patch 

 before tornus ; pale yellow points in middle of cell and at upper 

 angle. Hind wing blackish brown with subapical yellowish-white 

 streaks above and below vein 7 ; the terminal area yellowish white 

 from just beyond cell between veins 6 and 1 and extending to 

 termen as a small white mark below vein 1, its inner edge indented 

 by streaks on the veins. Underside of fore wing with the daru areas 

 fuscous brown, blue-black on costal area ; hind wing with whitish 

 streak in base of cell and patch below cell, a medial whitish band 

 between vein 8 and median nervure. 



Hab. Gilolo (Duherty), 1 $ type. Exp. 50 millim. 



4784. Apsarasa atramenta, n. sp. (Plate CXL1V. fig 31.) 



$ . Head and thorax cupreous brown ; palpi with white patches 

 at extremities of 1st and 2nd joints in front; Irons with pale yellow 

 patch above ; vertex of head with yellow band; tegulae with yellow 

 patch with two black spots on it ; pro- and mesothorax with yellow 

 spots, metathorax with white patch ; coxa? with white patches, the 

 femora at extremity, tibia? and fore and mid tarsi with white bands ; 

 abdomen cupreous brown suffused with metallic blue, the two basal 

 segments with dorsal yellow bars, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing cupreous brown, the costal edge and veins 

 tinged with metallic blue, the costal, terminal, and inner areas with 

 3 - ellowish-white patches leaving radiating dark bars and streaks ; 

 the costal area with small subbasal and antemedial yellowish-white 

 spots followed by a point, a medial bar and bar above end of cell 

 followed by two points, a triangular patch towards apex followed 

 by an oblique bar and triangular patch at apex ; the terminal area 

 with short oblique streak below apex followed by a point, a small 

 spot below vein 4 and triangular spots at veins 3, 2, and 1 ; the 

 inner area with triangular antemedial spot followed by a striga, a 

 quadrate medial patch from submedian fold to inner margin followed 

 by two stria? and a triangular spot before tornus ; a minute point 

 at middle of cell. Hind wing black-brown ; a minute white streak 

 below extremity of vein 7 ; a large white patch on terminal area 

 between veins 7 and 2 extending to vein 1 as a narrow terminal 

 band, its inner edge indented by streaks on the veins ; the under- 

 side with subapical white streaks above and below vein 7, a slight 

 gtreak in base of cell and discoidal spot and some whitish below 

 base of cell. 



