On new Indo-Malayan S/)ecies of Lepidoptera. 157 



XIII. — New Indo-Malayan Species of LepidoiJtera. 

 By Colonel C. SwiNHOE, M.A., F.L.8., &c. 



Family Limniinse. 

 Salatura affinis olga, nov. 



$ . Blackish brown with a slight bronzy tinge, markings 

 white : fore wing with a slight streak beyond the middle of 

 the cell, a spot on the middle of the discocellulars, two sub- 

 costal spots above it, the lower one linear ; a subapical series 

 of spots as in offinis, but all very small, the three near the 

 costa quite minute; a short white bar at the base of interspace 2, 

 a long one below it as in affinis, a small round sp >t beyond 

 the upper bar, and a double row of small round submarginal 

 spots, some of the upper and lov^rer ones more or less obso- 

 lete : hind wing with the white middle band divided by the 

 veins much as in affinis, but with the outer ends rounded ; a 

 double submarginal row of spots, the lower abdominal area 

 pale brownish grey. Underside differs materially from that 

 of affinis : fore wing with the markings as on the upperside : 

 hind wing without any of the orange spots which are present 

 in a-ffinis ; the markings as on the upperside, a V-shaped 

 dislocated mark below the costa near the base, and no 

 markings whatever between the central white part and the 

 submarginal double series of white spots. 



Expanse of wings, ^ , 3 inches. 



Hab. New Britain. 



The underside much resembles the underside of 8. decen- 

 tralis, Fruhstorfer, from Bangkei (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1899, 

 p. 69). 



Salatura affinis nora, nov. 



? . General pattern and colour very similar to that of 

 olga ; the palpi, head above and below, and the thorax 

 beneath prominently white-spotted, the wings with all the 

 white bands and spots much larger ajid more extended : fore 

 wing with a white spot on the centre of the costa, the white 

 spot outside the upper white bar not present. On the under- 

 side the basal portion of the fore wing is suffused with a 

 bronzy tinge, the underside of the hind wing as in olga and 

 also without any orange markings. 



Expanse of wings, ? , 3^q inches. 



Hab. Kiriwini Island, Tobriand group. 



