27G Sir G. F. Ilampson on new 



(122 </■) Margaronia polystrigalis, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown, the tegulae 

 with minute dark spots, the patagia with elongate dark marks at 

 middle ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown and with oblique 

 whitish subdorsal bars defined by darker brown on 2nd to 4th 

 segments, the anal tuft black-brown mixed with red-brown ; palpi 

 white with some brown in front of 2nd joint ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the fore 

 tibiae with black band at extremity. Fore wing white tinged with 

 red-brown and thickly striated with dark brown, the medial area 

 with more prominent black-brown striae from costa ; an indistinct 

 oblique dark subbasal line ; a double oblique dark antemedial line, 

 incurved at vein 1 and the inner line bent inwards to costa; a 

 minute dark spot in cell towards extremity and discoidal lunule 

 defined by dark brown and with dark striga in centre ; a double 

 dark line from lower angle of cell, filled in with ochreous and dilated 

 on outer side into a spot at inner margin below a rounded white 

 patch defined by dark brown and with dark spot in centre ; post- 

 medial line double, dark brown filled in with ochreous, slightly 

 sinuous and ending above vein 1 beyond the rounded patch ; two 

 slightly and irregularly waved brown subterminal lines ; an ochreous 

 terminal line defined on inner side by a brown line ; cilia with a 

 silvery gloss. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown and striated 

 with dark brown ; slight dark subbasal marks on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; an ochreous discoidal bar defined by dark brown and 

 two slight dark marks below end of cell ; a double oblique slightly 

 waved brown line filled in with ochreous from costa beyond middle 

 to above tornus ; a waved brown line from costa before apex to 

 termen at vein 1 with another line rather broken up into spots 

 beyond it ; a red-brown terminal line to vein 1 ; cilia with an 

 ochreous line at base followed by a fine red-brown line, the tips 

 white mixed with red-brown. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea., Collingwood Bay, Haidana {Meek), 1 S , 

 Owgarra (Meek), 1 6 type. Exp. 30 mm, 



(3) Furcivena atribasalis, sp. n. 



Fore wings with veins 4, 5 stalked ; hind wing with veins 4, 5 

 from cell ; antennae of male with small scale-teeth at the joints. 



S . Head, tegulae, and base of patagia white, the rest of thorax 

 dark brown with a cupreous gloss, the metathorax edged with white 

 at sides and behind ; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with reddish 

 ochreous leaving white segmental lines; antennae ochreous, the 

 tufts of scales at the joints brownish towards base ; palpi ochreous, 

 the basal joint and the 2nd joint below white ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white, the tarsi orange-yellow ringed 

 with white. Fore wing with the basal area white with a broad 

 black-brown band near base, narrowing to inner margin ; the rest 

 of wing yellow tinged with rufous leaving the costal edge and apex 

 white ; an oblique brownish postmedial line from vein 4 to inner 



