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line represented by slight white points on and below costa ; ante- 

 medial line dark, oblique, waved, with white points on it on and 

 below costa ; a dark medial shade exeurved at middle ; postmedial 

 line slight, dark, minutely dentate, with white point at costa, 

 oblique to vein 4, then erect and incurved at sub-median fold ; 

 traces of a minutely waved subterminal line exeurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; traces of a rounded apical patch defined by a few 

 white scales. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia 

 greyer ; the underside brown tinged and irrorated with grey, the 

 inner area greyish, a diffused dark brown bar from middle of costa 

 and postmedial band. 



Hub. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type f <3 in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 40 millim. 



4818. Callyna cupricolora. (Plate CXLY. fig. 14.) 

 Cattyna cupricolor, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 401 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown with a purple gloss ; pecius 

 and legs greyer, the tarsi slightly ringed with wiiite ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with red-brown and with blackish segmental lines. 

 Fore wing purplish plum-colour, the costal area blackish irrorated 

 with a few white scales, the terminal area and a streak on inner 

 margin except at base crimson-red ; traces of dark antemedial 

 line ; claviform very elongate and defined by chocolate-brown; 

 orbicular and reniform with slight grey annuli defined by black 

 scales and with streaks of black scales before and between them, 

 the former round, the latter narrow and constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line only represented by minute dark streaks in the 

 interspaces beyond the cell; subterminal line absent; cilia with a 

 fine white line at base. Hind wing white, the veins brownish, a 

 slight diffused brown subterminal shade and fine brown terminal 

 line; the underside with the costal and apical areas irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of minute streaks on 

 the veins. 



Bab. ATashoxalaxd, 8alisbury {Marshall), 1 J type, Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus OXYTHRES. 



Type. 

 Oxythres, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900) splen, 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching 

 to middle of Irons and broadly sealed, the 3rd short ; frons with rounded 

 prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna; oi male 

 very minutely serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with hair only and 

 without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with liair; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the tet men very obliquely 

 curved; \eins ,'j and 5 from near angle of cell; from upper angle ; 9 trom 

 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



