412 Colonel C. Swiulioe on 



curved brown annulated discal lines ; black margiiiul points 

 and cilia as above. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Padang, Sumatra ; one example. 



Allied to A", 'producta^ Ilmpsn., from Ceylon, and iV. Z,-oni, 

 Swinhoe, from Perak ; can at once be di.stinguislied by the 

 large round black spot at the end of the cell of the fore 

 wings. 



Family Pyralidae. 

 Subfamily Pyralinje. 



Vitessa stettina, nov. 



^ ? . AnteniiEe black, with short branches ; last joint of 

 palpi black, remainder of palpi, face, frons, head, thorax, and 

 abdominal tuft orange-ochreous; abdomen black, with white 

 segmental bands, more prominent in the female than in the 

 male; thorax with four large spots in a row in front and one 

 in the middle : fore wings metallic blue-black ; a large 

 orange-ochreous subbasal band, narrowing hiudwards and 

 not reaching the hinder margin ; a broad, white, erect, medial 

 band, with its inner margin even, its outer margin uneven 

 and almost dentated in parts ; a discal, rather narrower, 

 white band, with its margins curved ; the outer portion of 

 the wing with prominent white streaks on the veins : hind 

 wings white, with some black at the base and broad costal 

 and outer marginal borders, broadest at the apex ; cilia of 

 both wings black, with pale outer edges. On the underside 

 the fore wings have only the white discal band ; the white 

 streaks on the fore wings are short, .there are a iev: at the 

 apex of the hind wings, and tiie cilia of both wings are wjiite. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Granville, New Guinea; one male, two females. 



Nearest to V. glaucoptera, Hrapsn., the tj'pe of which 

 (from Queenstown) in Coll. Rothschild I have not seen ; 

 but there is one of Mr, Knight^s beautiful coloured drawings 

 of the type in the B. M, and this form differs from that and 

 from its description in many material points. There are 

 several examples of this form from the Mount Kebea range 

 in both the B. M. and my collections. 



Vitessa teJeroma, nov. 



(J $ . Palpi, head, and thorax ochreous ; thorax with 

 three conjoined black spots in front ; collar with two black 



