488 Lord Rothschild o)i neio Heterocera. 



bands of lufous-orange below median to inner marg^in, much 

 angled, waved, excised, and ])artially joined. Hind wings 

 sooty slate-grey, with white veins ; a broken irregular post- 

 median band, broader between vein 2 and abdominal margin j 

 some white spots at end of veins. 



Length of fore wing 26 mm. ; expanse 56*5 mm. , 



Hah. Tali, Yunnan. 



Depalpata, gen. no v. 



This genus is nearest to Burgena. 



Proboscis minute ; palpi with second and third joints 

 aborted, minute, and curved downwards ; frons smooth ; 

 .niitennse almost simple; tibice smooth, the spurs minute, the 

 hind tibiae with terminal spurs only. 



Fore wing : vein 2 from long before angle of cell, 3 from 

 close to angle, 4 and 5 from angle, 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind xiing : 2 from well 

 before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only; underside with whole inner area 

 clothed with rough androconia extending into lower end of 

 cell and to vein 7. 



Depalpata mirabilis, sp. n. 



^ . Anteimge black ; pectus orange-yellow ; frons and 

 vertex black ; thorax velvety black ; collar and edges of 

 tegulffi yellow ; abdomen black, strongly glossed with greenish 

 steel-blue ; anal tuft golden-orange. 



Fore wing velvety black, an oblique creamy antemedian 

 band. Hind wing black, intensely shot and glossed with 

 blue ; a large pure while subbasal patch in cell and a smaller 

 one below cell ; large tufts of roiigh sooty-black hair on 

 each side of vein 1 h ; torn us whitish. 



Underside : abdomen as above, but with a large white 

 patch on third segment. Fore wing sooty-black with dull 

 blue gloss ; antemedian band as above, but divided into two, 

 and with an irregular white ex])ansion distad below vein 2 j 

 on the base of the cell and on costa a white dot ; beyond the 

 discocellulars an irregular large white patch extending from 

 subcostal to vein 3. Hind wings sooty-black glossed with 

 dull blue ; whole area below vein 7 covered with a dense 

 felting of rough whitish androconia except a patch of white 

 and a spur of dark colour in cell. 



Length of fore wing 29 mm. ; expanse 65 mm. 



Hah. Hvdrographer Mts., S.E. British New Guinea, 

 2500 ft., March 1918 {Eichorn Bros. Coll). 



