frvm the SvIoino7i hhinds. 221 



at costa, tapering to a point at anal angle and with undulated 

 inner edge. Expanse of wings 66-79 millim, 



Alu, Shortland Island, and Malayta (eleven examples in 

 varying condition). 



This species is absolutely constant in all the characters by 

 which it is distinguished from the New-Guinea form ; it 

 belongs to the same group as H. alienata. 



13. Cleis mgrescensj sp. n. 



^ . Dark chocolate-brown ; wings faintly shot with purple : 

 ])rimaries crossed just beyond the middle by a broad, oval, 

 reddish-orange, oblique patch, not quite reaching the costa or 

 external angle : secondaries with an internally diffused reddish 

 crescent beyond the cell. Primaries below dark chocolate- 

 brown, transversely mottled with bright scarlet ; a bright 

 ochreous patch representing the reddish-orange patch of the 

 uppeiside, its outer edge bordered with black ; external area 

 bright scarlet, sprinkled with short black stria and bounded 

 by a blackish fringe on external margin : secondaries dark 

 chocolate-brown ; a nearly semicircular, internally diffused 

 discal streak, followed by a black stripe and external border, 

 as on the primaries. Body below ochraceous, the palpi and 

 front of pectus reddish orange. Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



Alu, Shortland Island, 



Apparently a rare species; the female has the secondaries 

 above immaculate, and on the under surface there is a com- 

 plete submarginal series of silvery lilac spots. 



14. Cleis hiplagiata^ sp. n. 



(J. Chocolate-brown, with purplish reflections: primaries 

 crossed beyond the middle by a broad, subpyriform, deep 

 ochreous patch ; face, palpi, autennaj, and sides of abdomen 

 ochreous. Under surface bright ochreous : primaries with two 

 black spots in the cell and an indistinct black line across the 

 end of the cell : secondaries wnth a spot at the end of the 

 cell ; external borders red, striated sparsely with black, edged 

 with black, and with indistinct, pearly whitisli, submarginal 

 spots ; the under surface in fact principally differs from that 

 of C. versicolor ('Reise der Novara,' Lep. Het. pi. cvii. fig. 2-4) 

 in the absence of the central oblique black belt across the 

 primaries. Expanse of wings 44 millim. 



Xllaua. 



Evidently rare and possibly, though not probably, an 

 extreme variety of the following species. 



