BLENINA, 413 
mostly white, some white at base of inner margin ; a small quad- 
rate subbasal black spot on costa defined by white, a point in cell 
and wedge-shaped black patch below the cell with white patch 
beyond it before the antemedial line, which is black defined by 
white on inner side, oblique, angled inwards below costa and bent 
outwards above inner margin, a black fascia from it to postmedial 
line above vein 1, defined by white above; a trilobate black 
discoidal spot defined by white; postmedial line black defined by 
white on outer side, forming a wedge-shaped spot on costa, bent 
outwards below costa, then rather maculate and incurved at discal 
fold, incurved and stronger below vein 2 and outwardly oblique 
to inner margin, a black point beyond it on costa; subterminal 
line represented by a black spot on costa, then some points, a 
lunule at vein 5 and irregular spot at tornus, with a green band 
beyond it interrupted below middle; a quadrate terminal black 
patch at apex, semicircular patch at discal fold and spot above 
vein 2; cilia chequered black green and white. Hind wing 
whitish suffused with fuscous brown; cilia slightly intersected 
with white; the underside whitish, the costal half and terminal 
area suffused with brown. 
Hab. Br. New Guinea, Babooni (Pratt), type T in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. wp. 40 millim. 
*6750. Blenina nigrans. (Plate CLXXXYV. fig. 9.) 
Blenina nigrans, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 222 (1906). 
dg. Head and thorax black-brown with some white scales mixed, 
the frons much whiter with a blackish bar above ; palpi white with 
black patches at base of joints, the 2nd joint black behind; pectus 
and legs white mixed with some brown, the tarsi banded with 
black ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests blackish, the 
ventral surface whitish. Fore wing black-brown, irrorated with 
white, a diffused whitish patch on costal half of postmedial area, 
the terminal area whitish ; subbasal line represented by black spots 
below costa and cell; an ill-defined diffused slightly sinuous ante- 
medial line; medial line minutely waved, double below the cell and 
slightly angled inwards at vein 1; two black discoidal points; 
postmedial line defined by white on outer side from costa to vein 4, 
double at costa, sinuous, oblique to vein +, then incurved, a black 
point beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on inner 
side by black, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7, 
excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a diffused black 
apical spot ; a terminal series of white spots separated by minute 
black streaks on the veins ; cilia white and brown with a series of 
blackish spots at base. Hind wing deep glossy fuscous, cilia 
cheyuered white and fuscous at middle; the underside whitish 
suffused and irrorated with brown, the terminal half fuscous, an 
oblique fuscous postmedial line. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. ap. 36 millim. 
