Lepidoptera from Africa and the East. 567 



Waigeum iiti/i, sp. ii. 



cJ . Primaries blackisli, witli the cell filled with metallic 

 bright greenish-blue scales, which extend well between veins 

 3 to 8 ; a broad white stripe commencing in the middle of 

 the fold, tapering up narrowly to vein 3, veins 2 and 3 inter- 

 rupting it and giving it the appearance of three diminishing 

 white spots. Secondaries blackish, with a restricted black 

 base, followed by a very broad and definite oblique white 

 band right across the wing and extending to the apex; some 

 metallic bright greenish scales between veins 2 and 5. Under- 

 side : primaries black, with the white area more extensive 

 and curved up to above vein 4, where it is produced some- 

 what towards the termen ; a metallic bronzy-green stripe 

 runs through the lower area of the cell and beyond a short 

 way along vein 4 ; a broad metallic bronzy-green stripe 

 occupies the subcostal region, bending round before the apex 

 and bordering the white area, along which it runs, almost 

 touching the stripe along vein 4 ; a similar metallic terminal 

 line is interrupted at the veins. Secondaries \Nith the Iwsal 

 black area restricted but extending finely along two-thirds of 

 the costa, and bordered above with metallic bronzy green ; 

 the white oblique band is very broad and definite, and is 

 finely edged on each side with metallic bronzy green ; the 

 rest of the area is deep black, and in it in the postmedian 

 area is a defined, broadish, waved, metallic bronzy-green 

 stripe tapering to a point below the apex ; the terminal 

 bronzy-green stripe is narrow at the apex and gradually 

 increases in width to the anal angle, up which it curves and 

 almost meets the postmedian stripe. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Hab. Uty River, Dutch New Guinea {Pratt). 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Waigeum pratti, sp. n. 



(J • Both wings black, with white transverse bands and 

 bright metallic greenish-blue scales. Primaries with the 

 base, cell, all the upper radial area, a broad stripe down 

 the lower radial area outside the white area, and the whole of 

 the inner margin, brilliant metallic greenish blue ; the white 

 area scarcely extends below the cell, but is from vein 1 to 

 nearly vein 4, each of the three internervular patches being 

 smaller than its predecessor, the third being little more than 

 an obscure spot. Secondaries with the very restricted basal 

 area black, almost all covered with metallic greenish blue ; 



