70 Colonel C. Swinhoe on neto 



sinrounJed by blackish and again by pale pinkisii ; a duplex, 

 oMiqiie, and liiglily curved line, centred with white fioin the 

 UK'dian vein ncjvr tlie base to the ini(kllt' of the wing above 

 the hinder margin ; above this i.s a siniihtr circular duplex 

 line outside the space round the orbicular, these lines more or 

 less indistinct; an obscure pale pinkish space on the hinder 

 margin beyond the middle ; marginal line black, inwardly 

 edged with pale pinkish on both sides; cilia brown: hind 

 wing daik grey, the outer margin i)rownish; outer marginal 

 line black, somewhat sinuous, outwardly edged with a pale 

 line ; cilia browMi. 



Expanse of wings, ? , 1 inch. 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo. 



Gadirtha guineana^ nov. 



J $ . Palpi greyish white, second joint black on the sides; 

 head and thorax mixed grey and white ; a black stripe 

 behind the collar and one on each side o£ the thorax; abdo- 

 men dark grey, with darker segmental bands : fore wing with 

 the ground-c dour white, densel}- irrorated with pale choco- 

 late-brown ; costa with a large black antemedial patch and a 

 smaller curved subapical patch, and two l>lack spots between 

 them ; orbicular and renitbrm round black rings, pale inside 

 and dull ochreous spot in their centres, the former small, the 

 latter very large ; black marks below the first patch, some 

 black spots in an oblique row in the disc, black marginal 

 lunules at the vein-ends, and a number of black spots close 

 together on the outer half of the hinder margin, above which 

 there is some whitish suffusion : hind wing pale grey, outer 

 margin broadly blackish ; cilia of both wings piidcish grey. 



Expanse of wings, S ? j ^\(i~^^o inches. 



IJah. Dinawa, 4000', Mt. Kebea, 6000', New Guinea 

 {A. E. Pratt). 



Several examples. Some of the sjjecimens have a dark 

 central suffusion, somewhat resembling G. intpinqens, Walker ; 

 genitalia different (PI. IX. figs. 10 & 11) ; note the differ- 

 ence in the valvule, costa, uncus, and the extraordinary 

 devehtpment of the gnathos, which is new to us ; the tegumen 

 is also utterly different. 



Family Acontiidse. 

 Genus Maurilia, Moschler. 

 .1/. iconica, Walker, is quite different from M. cervina, 



