258 Col. C. Swinlioe on new 



central band reduced to a thin lunule on the costa, followed 

 by three small spots and some patches of blue atoms ; a com- 

 plete submarginal set of reddish-ochreous lunules and cilia as 

 above. 



Expanse of wings 4^q inches. 



Ke Island {Halliburton). One example. 



I do not know any near ally. 



Genus Menelaides, Hiibn. 

 Menelaides theasoMa, sp. n. 



? . Black ; head, face, collar, and tip of abdomen crimson, 

 thorax, rest of abdomen, and both wings above pure bright 

 black. Fore wings with whitish streaks in the interspaces 

 from the discoidal cell to the margin, and a short broad streak 

 in the interno-median interspace. Hind wings with a patch 

 of white in the centre, divided into seven long spots by the 

 discocellular and median veinlets ; a small crimson streak at 

 the bottom of the spot near the abdominal margin ; a submar- 

 ginal series of very large crimson lunular spots in the inter- 

 spaces, decreasing in size upwards. Underside : thorax with 

 crimson sides, abdomen with crimson bands, legs black ; fore 

 v/ings as above, but some short whitish streaks extend into 

 the outer portions of the cell j hind wings as above, but the 

 crimson spots very bright and large ; tails almost non- 

 existent, the wing being produced very slightly. 



Expanse of wings A^^-A-f-^ inches. 



Ke Island [Hatlihurton). Two examples. 



Above it is something like 11. polyphonies^ Boisd., without 

 tails ; it is, however, much blacker, and the white streaks do 

 not extend into the cell. The male will probably be very 

 similar, the sexes not varying much in this group. 



HETEROCEEA. 



Family Drepanulidse. 



Genus Deepana, Schrank. 



Drepana herenica^ sp. n. 



$. Eed, tinged with grey and sparsely striated with black; 

 plumes of antennse grey, palpi and legs crimson j wings 

 with but very few markings, some black dots near the costa 

 and a few here and there over both wings ; an indistinct 

 blackish smear at end of cell in fore wings and an indistinct 

 blackish streak upwards from the hinder margin near the 



