188 Mr. L. B. Pi'oiit on 



to add that the antenna is hipectinate to apex, the branches 

 rather loii«:, shortening suddenly at apical end, and that 

 vein C of the hind wing does not anastomose with cell iu 

 the middle, but is connected with a bar as in the Agaiiaidae, 

 with which the genus seems to show some affinity. 



Subfamily Htbzjeinm. 



35. Hi/blaa joiceyi, sp. n. 



(J . — 46 mm. 



Head and palpus purple-fuscous, palpus beneath whitish 

 proximally. Thorax chocolate-brown ; beneath paler, 

 variegated with whitish and yellowish anteriorly, with 

 reddish posteriorly. Abdomen above fleshy greyish; beneath 

 mostly red, with a dark central line. Fore leg with gold- 

 yellow tuft on coxa, femur white, tibia above brown, tarsus 

 blackish ; middle and. hind legs predominantly red. 



Fo?-e vjing not very broad, costal margin not strongly 

 arched (very slightly waved), termen almost straight and 

 rather oblique from apex to JNP, somewhat excised between 

 M^ and tornus : chocolate-brown, slightly variegated in the 

 shadings, almost throughout wuth irregularly scattered dots 

 and small spots of greenish w^iite; faint indications of an 

 elongate dark apical streak. 



Hind iving sceir\et-\ermi\\on, unmarked ; abdominal margin 

 with tufts of very long yellowish hair; fringe yellowish, 

 from apex nearly to R^ proximally infuscated. 



Fore wing beneath red-orange, becoming infuscated midway 

 between cell and termen, darker at extreme margin ; costal 

 margin dotted with fuscous ; hind margin pale ; a rosy patch 

 in submedian area ; an elongate dark cell-mark. Hind wing 

 beneath orange-red with coarse purple-fuscous speckling, 

 which in distal area is condensed into an ill-defined cloud; 

 between fold and abdominal margin clear red, as above. 



Isle of Jilioswar, Geelvink Bav, North Dutch New Guinea, 

 September 1909 (C. &,• F. Pratt). 



Near ibidias, Turn. (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South "Wales, 

 xxvii. p. 135), but larger, the wings slightly narrower; 

 further distinguished by the pale-spotted fore wing and even 

 brighter red, entirely unmarked hind wing. 



36. HyblcEa puera vitiensis, subsp. n. 

 (5", 40 mm.; ? , 36 mm. 

 Abdomen beneath wholly red. 



Fo7'e icing above with strong purple shades (but evidently 

 variable^ as in the other forms). 



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