Lepidoplera from Dulch New Guinea. 83 



tlie dark veins ; a sliort greenisli-hlue aubapical bar; a siib- 

 maro;inal row of greenisli-bliie lutuile-), tiieir concavities filled 

 in with bbick. Hiud wiwj vvitb a basal cream-coloured 

 stripe incbiding the costa to apex and crossing cell at its 

 middle, this stripe invaded by a black basal bar not reaching 

 costa ; a large and almost D-shaped greenish-blue area occu- 

 pying distal half of wing, its outer edge cream-coloured, with 

 metallic scaling on inside; a submurginal greenish-blue line 

 from base to apex. 



Head, anteunpo, thorax, and abdomen black ; thorax with 

 some metallic greenish scaling abjve. 



Length of fore wing 19 mm. 



3 ? "? , 3000-iOOO feet, Wandammen :Mtns., Nov. 



31. Deudorix I'ltloralis, sp. n. 



Near wood/ordi, Druce, from Solomons. At once distin- 

 guished by the reduced brown on fore wing, which reaches 

 very little above vein 2 and hardly touches the submedian. 

 Hind wing with brown reduced to an oblique bar from lower 

 end of cell to near margin between veins 2 and 3; spot on 

 anal lobe yellowish. 



Underside darker and more brownish than in looodfordi. 

 Fore wing with postdiscal band straighter. Hind wing with 

 spots well defined by grey; anal spot ringed with yellowish, 

 anal green scalinj; much reduced. 



? . More resembles the ? of epijarbas, Moore. Similar 

 above, but on the underside the bands are narrower and 

 better defined. Anal spot in 2 ringed with pale yellow, and 

 between this and inner margin is a metallic yellowish-green 

 line. 



Length o£ fore wing, 3* 22, ? 21 mm. 



Types from Kapaur, ex Coll. Grrose-Smith ; also 1 i^ , 

 Coast District, Geelvink Bay ; 3 cJ <? , German New Guinea. 



The co-types have more extended brown on the hind wing, 



Heterocera. 



ArctiadaB. 



32. Asura wandammenensce , sp. n. 



Allied to pliryctopa, Meyr. 



S • Upperside oi fore wing with dark grey ground-colour, 

 veins darker. A rounded yellow basal spot edged with red 

 and with a red spot at its outer edge ; three subbasal red 

 spots — one at costa, one below vein 2, and one at inner margin 

 — another distuUy of the latter, a dot above it near second 



