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orange-yellow bands on each segment, the anal segment brown, the 

 ventral surface with broad pale yellow bands. Fore wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black-brown ; a rather quadrate black-brown 

 diseoidal patch ; the terminal band expanding widely at apex, into a 

 wedge-shaped patch between veins 6 and 5 and slightly between veins 

 8 and 2. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown, 

 the terminal band nan*owing to a point at tomus ; some ^yellow on 

 inner margin. 



Rah. Java, 1 2 type, Salak {KirlcpatricJe), 1 $. Exp. 36- 

 38 millim. 



89 a. Amata pavadelpha. (Plate I. fig. 26.) 

 Syntomis paradel/pha, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxix. p. 845 (1905). 



<3 . Black with a slight greenish gloss ; antennae white at tips ; 

 frons, tegulae, and lateral patches on pectus orange; abdomen with 

 dorsal dee]) orange patch at base followed by six bands and a dorsal 

 patch on terminal segment. Fore wing with small quadrate 

 hyaline spots below base and in end of cell, the former slightly 

 tinged with orange ; an oblique bar-shaped spot below base of 

 vein 2 and postmedial spots above veins 3, 4, and 6. Hind wing 

 with small orange-tinged spot below base of cell and spot above 

 base of vein L>. 



2 . Abdomen with five bands beyond the basal patch, the anal 

 tuft orange and ochreous ; wings with the spots rather larger and 

 more tinged with orange. 



Hab. Queensland, Darling Downs, Mt. Sturt {Turner), 1 S , 

 1 5 , Brisbane ( Turner), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. 



*89 Ik Amata arfacensis. 



Amata arfakensie, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 154 (1911), & xix. p. 377, 

 pi. v. f, 24. 



c? . Head and tegulse orange ; palpi black except at tips ; 

 antennae and a bar between their bases black ; thorax black with a 

 greenish gloss ; orange patches on metathorax and sides of pectus; 

 abdomen greenish black with orange bands on each segment and 

 the extremity orange, the ventral surface with three orange bands. 

 Fore wing black glossed with green ; a rounded hyaline antemedial 

 spot below the cell ; a conical spot in end of cell, oblique spot below 

 base of vein 2, elongate spots above vein 6, and spots above and 

 below vein 4. Hind wing black glossed with green ; a hyaline 

 spot below the cell, small spot in cell above origin of vein 2, oblique 

 spot below vein 4, and minute spot above it. 



Hah. Dutch N. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley, type f 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



91 a. Amata sala. (Plate I. tig. 27.) 



Syntomis sala, SwLnh. A. M. N. II. (7) ix. p. 77 (1900). 



(5 . Black ; frons yellow; antennae yellowish white at tips ; tegulse 

 with some yellow hair beneath; abdomen with seven narrow yellow 

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