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4. Pingasa lalaypi austrina, subsp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 26.) 



Spots beneath rather browner and more extended than in 

 the Palfearctic race (Algeria and Morocco). 

 Gambia^ c? (type) and ? . 



5. ^olochroma prasina spadicocampa, subsp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 1.) 



(J . — 42 mm. 



Smaller than prasina prasina, Warr., from New Guinea 

 and Fergnsson Island, both wings with enlarged black discal 

 spot, postmedian line thickened in middle. 



Fore wing with median area between costal margin and 

 M^ mostly of the ground-colour, the reddish line before the 

 subterminal brightened (bay, sliglitly inclining towards 

 maroon), thickened into a band, running from hind margin 

 to R^, then out along R^ (-R^) to termen. 



Hind wing with the reddish subterminal spot between the 

 radials enlarged. 



Biak, Schouten Islands, June 1914 [A. C. c& F. Pratt). 



6. Dysphania porphyroides, sp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 12.) 



S . — 67 mm. 



Face light yellowish brown, with a purplish spot in middle. 

 Palpus purplish, first and second joints beneath light brown. 

 Crown mostly purplish. Collar bright yellow. Patagia and 

 tegulse deep purple. Thorax and abdomen above light 

 brown, slightly mixed with purple, especially near anus; 

 beneath bright yellow. 



Fore wing dull purple ; some slight cadmium-yellow 

 markings near base — namely, a short irregular line or streak 

 behind SC and some maculation about the fovea ; tiie usual 

 Dysphania markings faint, indicated in darker colour; basal 

 streak apparently slight, the succeeding angulated band littl 

 interrupted, formed more as in subrepleta than in militaris ; 

 discal spot rather more conspicuous, elongate outward, its 

 distal side tapering ; submarginal white spots small, that 

 between SC^ and R^ cut by a thick purple line along R^, 

 those between R^ and M^ more distally placed, the posterior 

 one the smaller, a quite small spot between M^ and M^, the 

 rest obsolete. 



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