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Underside mucli paler than in <$ and with a brownish 

 ground-colour. 



Length of fore wing, ^ 21, ? 22 mm. 



A series of both sexes, 6000 feet, Wandamnien Mtus., Nov. 



12. Platypthima enptycluoides, sp. n. 

 (PI. VIII. tig. 1.) 



Allied to klossi, Roths.* 



(^ . Upperside dark smoky brown, darker at the margins, 

 without markings. 



Underside paler than above, i^ore icing with apex and 

 outer margin to vein 3 reddish brown, bordered proximally 

 by a black band which widens posteriorly to vein 2 and 

 touches margin between this vein and 3; proximally of this 

 a pale indistinct postmediau band ; inner marginal area 

 smoky grey. Hind wing with a postmedian band formed of 

 seven ocelli in 1 c-7, the one in 5 shitted inwards, tiie one in 

 6 outwards, and the seventh farther in than the others ; each 

 ocellus has a white pupil and black iris ringed with yellow- 

 brown and outwardly with black ; the sixth and seventh are 

 only represented by a larger white pupil ; tiie seventh is 

 bordered posteriorly by steel-blue, and the others are similarly 

 bordered proximally and distally, forming a steel-blue band 

 which encloses the ocelli ; the inner border of the band is 

 thicker tiian the outer. A discal band paler than the ground- 

 colour entering the cell at its end and posteriorly joined to 

 the similarly coloured inner margin; outer margin reddish 

 brown, with a thin black terminal line. 



Length of fore wing 21 mm. 



A series, GOOO feet, Wandammen Mtns., Nov. 



13. Platyp)tluma pandora^ sp. n. 

 (PI. VI. fig. 6.) 



Allied to pedcdoidina, Joicey & Noakes, from the Arfak. 



(J. Upperside smoky brown. Fore wing with a pale 

 median band close to cell and reaching inner margin, nar- 

 rowed anteriorly to vein Q, outer edge almost parallel with 

 margin. Hind wing with pale band showing through from 

 below and outwardly suffused ; two anal ocelli in 2 and 3, 

 black ringed with pale brown, the one in 2 the larger ; a 

 submarginai violet line, distinct from anal angle to vein 4, 

 and then evanescent. 



* Platijpthima klossi, Rotlis. Lep. of H. 0. U. & Wollast. Exped. p. 14 

 (lOl.-i). 



