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costal nervure curved downwards, sinuous and approximated to the 

 median nervure. 



d ■ Metathorax and abdomen blacker brown ; fore wing strongly 



Fig. 85. — Scoliacma brunnea, cJ, 5- !• 



suffused with purple ; hind wing with the inner area slightly tinned 

 with purple; underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with purple ; hind wing tinged with purple. 



Br. N. GurifEA, Kumusi R. (Meek), type t d, $ brunnea 

 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa, type f $ hades in 

 Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



187 a. Scoliacma fuscofascia. (Plate XXV. fig. 21.) 

 Nishada fuscofascia, Kotlis. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 223 (1913). 



$ . Head and tegulse orange-yellow, the latter with black bars 

 at middle; antenn;e brown ; palpi reddish brown at tips; thorax 

 red-brown with a pair of orange-yellow patches on prothorax and 

 a patch on metathorax; pectus and legs orange-yellow, the tibiae 

 and tarsi suffused with brown ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral 

 surface orange-yellow. Fore wing pale red-brown; some orange- 

 yellow at base; a darker red-brown shade at end of cell from costa 

 to inner margin and the termen rather darker red-brown. Hind 

 wing white tinged with rjd-brown, the termen suffused with red- 

 brown expanding irregularly below vein 2. Underside of fore wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown ; hind wing with the costal area 

 suffused witli red-brown. 



11, ih. Dutch X. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Meek), type f $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Oetakwa II., Snow Mts. (Meek), 1 $'. Krj>. 2s 

 millim. 



*188a. Scoliacma xuthopis. (Plate XXV. fig. 22.) 

 Scoliacma a uthopis, Turner, ined. 



2 ■ Pale fulvous brown. Fore wing with a short recurrent vein 

 from vein 2 near its base, the upper angle of cell much produced ; 



