592 ARCTIADJ3. 



Ab. 2. reducta. Blacker ; fore wing with the antemedial patch 

 narrower, the subterminal band deeper red ; hind wing with the 

 patch not extending below submedian fold. 



■ Hah. Dutch N. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley (Pratt), 

 "type f c? pallidior in Coll. Rothschild, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. 

 (Meek), typef 2 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Mambare 

 R., Biagi (Meek), type t c? reducta in Coll. Rothschild ; Good- 

 exough I. (Meek), 1 $ . .Erp. tf 24, $ 26 millim. 



*591 6. Byrsia ornata. 



Byrsia ornata, Roths. Not. Zool. viii. p. 423 (1902). 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked. 



6 . Black ; patagia with yellow patches ;• tarsi and ventral surface 

 of abdomen } T ellow. Fore wing with large golden yellow patch from 

 near base to beyond middle and from inner margin to below costa, 

 rounded above and its outer edere angled in discal and submedian 



Fig 1 . -172. — Byrsia ornata, J 1 . \. 



folds; a deep orange subterminal band from below costa to tornus 

 towards which it is attenuate, rounded above and with its edges 

 minutely waved. Hind wing with orange-yellow triangular patch 

 from costa, on which it extends from base to beyond middle, to 

 submedian fold near termen ; the underside with terminal patch 

 from vein 5 to 2 followed by a narrow band to tornus. 



Sab: New Guinea, Humboldt Bay (Doherty), type f <$ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



*591 c. Byrsia amcena. (Plate XXXI. fig. 19.) 



Byrsia amcena, Roths. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 423 (1901). 



5 . Head and thorax golden yellow ; pectus and legs black ; 

 tarsi yellow ; abdomen black, the anal tuft grey, whitish below. 

 Fore wing golden yellow, the terminal area blue-black from costa 

 beyond middle to inner margin near tornus ; a scarlet subterminal 

 band from below costa to vein 1, rounded above and attenuate 

 below. Hind wing golden yellow with terminal black band 

 narrowing from costa to a point at submedian fold, the cilia 

 towards tornus and on inner margin black. 



Sab. Solomon Is., Isabel I. (Meek), type t 2 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



