51H AKCTIAD.K. 



towards base on upperside, the cell narrow and the neuration 

 rather distorted. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown glossed with 

 metallic blue ; tarsi whitish ; anal tuft whitish at sides. Fore 

 wing black-brown glossed with metallic blue ; the fringes of hair 

 under the costal fringe ochreous ; an elliptical white spot in and 

 below end of cell ; the terminal half of wing occupied by a deep 

 cupreous red patch leaving the margins black-brown. Hind wing 



Fig. 174. — Neoscaptia androconiata, tf . \- 



white with some reddish brown at base and on inner margin ; the 

 terminal area dark reddish brown, broad at costa, narrowing to 

 torn us ; the underside with black-brown patch on basal costal 

 area. 



Hah. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meelc), type f 

 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



*o92 c. Neoscaptia albata. 



Neoscaptia albata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 470 (1905). 



Antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; fore wing with 

 fringe of long scales from basal half of costa on upperside covering 

 an elongate foveal depression, the underside with fringe of long 

 hair on vein 1 ; hind wing with the costal area strongly lobed to 



Fig. 175. — Neoscaptia albata, <$ . }. 



near apex with large elliptical patch of androconia on upperside 

 below costa. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; pectus and legs with 

 whitish mixed ; anal tuft whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 with the base blue-black, followed by a broad white hand, its outer 



