Helerocera from Dutch Xew Guinea. 79 



Xanthomiina [Eusemia) melanura, Kirsch. Mitth. Zool. ^lus. 

 Dresden, ii. pp. 130-131, pi. vii. fig. 3 (1877) (Kordo, 

 Schouteu Is.). 



Eucharidema arfaha, sp. u. 

 (PL III. fig. 1.) 



Similar to aroennis, Roth.*, and euanthes, Proutf. Agrees 

 with aroensis in the white band of the hind wing, which is 

 absent in euanthes. Differs from euanthes on the fore wing- 

 in the well-marked posterior fork of the subterrainal line, in 

 the stripe in cellule 3 being perceptibly forked at its distal 

 end, and the orange patch below being reduced proximall}'. 

 It resembles the differently looking labyrinthodes, Proutt, in 

 the fork of the subterminal line, and the reduced orange 

 patch on the underside. 



(J ? . Upperside. — Fore iving with ground-colour black 

 strongly irrorated with chocolate-brown, which is less at 

 base and outer margin. A distinct thin basal line of 

 chocolate-brown, a subterrainal irregular line which runs 

 parallel to margin from costa near apex to vein 4, then 

 curves inwards and is oblique to inner margin ; it is joined 

 to another line at the middle of vein 3, this line going to 

 the tornus, and it is sometimes connected with a curved 

 mark outside it in cellule 2. A white postcellular bar or 

 line, reduced to a pale thin line in two specimens, runs just 

 beyond cell from centre to vein 4 and is slightly curved. 

 The whole of cellule 3 is filled in with chocolate-colour, and 

 this extends more or less definitely as a bar across end of 

 cell. There is a small triangular patch of chocolate-colour 

 on margin below apex, and this usually cuts off a black 

 apical patch. Hind wing plumbagineous with a narrow 

 white postcellular band from costa to vein 4; it narrows 

 posteriorly and is sometimes obsolescent to inner margin. 



Underside plumbagineous. Fore lulng darker iu distal 

 half. A broad orange-yellow subapical band from costa 

 to vein 2, slightly invading cell, widest in cellule 3, outer 

 edge more irregular than the inner. Hind wing without 

 markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky brown above, paler 

 below ; antennae pale brown ; legs grey. 



Length of fore wing 24 mm. 



* Bounnia aroensis, Roths. Xov. Zool. xi. p. 322, pi. iii. fig. 29 (1904). 

 t Fjucharidema euanthes, Prout, Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 67 (1916; (Alt. 

 Goliatli). 



t E. labyrinthodes, Prout, /. c. p. 68 (Mt. Goliatli). 



