EABINOCEUA. — IDAIJJIA. 459 



a patch on middle of inner margin with a spot beyond it; a post- 

 medial band with very irregular edges from costa to below vein 2, 

 with a series of points beyoad it, a subterminal series of points, the 

 point on vein 5 displaced inwards, spots near apex and tornus. 

 Hind wing with the basal half white, the terminal half blackish 

 with crenulate inner edge ; cilia of both wings chequered black and 

 white. 



Hah. New Guinea, Port Moresby, 2 $ ; Da3Imer I {Kilhn), 

 type t 6 Icuhni in Coll. Rothschild; ]V. Australia {J. R. Elsaj), 

 1 (S type. £"^73. 44-54 millim. 



Genus IDALIMA. 



Type. 

 Idahma, Turner, Tr, R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 2 ( 1 903) affu, U. 



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

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porreet ; 

 frous with truncate conical process with raised edges and corneous plate below 

 it; eyes large, round; antennre of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales mixed and without crests; tibias moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and witliout crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not crenulate ; vehis 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole; U from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing witli the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial blue lines leonora. 



B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial blue lines. 



a. Hmd wing with the basal half suffused with greenish 



yellow except towards costa cyanobusis. 



b. Hind vying with the basal half not suffused with 



greenish yellow. 

 a^. Hind wing with white band beyond the cell between 



vein () and submedian fold hemiphraijma. 



b^. Hind wing with two yellowish-white sometimes 



conjoined spots beyond the cell mctastkta. 



c^. Hiud wing without baud or spots beyond the cell ... affinh. 



4940. Idalima leonora. 



Jgarma leonora, Doubl. Stokes Discov. Austr. i. p. 518. pi. 3. f. 4 (1840) • 

 Butl. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 8, pi. 4. f. 6 ; Kirby. Cat. Lep. Het. p. 23. 



Black tinged with purple ; palpi banded with pale yellow ; sides 

 of frons, basal joint of antenuco, spots on vertex of head, guhc, 

 and edges of tegulaj and patagia yellow ; the hair on coxae and 

 femora orange; tibias and tarsi with white points; abdomen with 

 segmental white lines on ventral surface and sometimes on upper- 

 side, the terminal segment orange. Fore wing with blue spot at 

 base ; an oblique streak from base of inner margin to the oblique 

 antemedial line; a whitish bar across end of cell with short 

 blue streak above it and spot below it ; an oblique series of three 

 whitish spots beyond the cell, two further from base above veins 

 3 and 4 and a more elongate spot above vein 2 ; a postmedial 



