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edge angled mil wards in cell; a medial dark brown band with blue- 

 black patch on its inner edge below the cell; the terminal area 

 enpreons red with brown apical patch and small round white subapical 

 spot; cilia dark brown. Hind wing pure white ; the inner margin 

 fuscous black ; a terminal fuscous black band, very broad at apex, 

 narrowing to tornus and with rather sinuous inner edge. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the base white, the costa brown ; hind wing 

 with the fuscous extending below costa to near base 



Hub. Br. New Guinea, Angabunga E. {Meek), type t 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



*592<7. Neoscaptia aequalis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 20.) 



Neoscaptia sequalis, Koths. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 471 (1905). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, the vertex of thorax 

 with metallic blue patch legs with some whitish ; anal tuft with 

 whitish mixed. Fore wing fuscous brown ; the area below the cell 

 metallic blue from near base to beyond middle ; a subbasal white 

 mark in cell ; a curved cupreous red band suffused with fuscous 

 and blue at middle from below costa beyond middle to tornus; an 

 elliptical white subapical spot with some metallic blue suffusion 

 round it. Hind wing white, the inner margin and terminal area 

 fuscous, the latter very broad at apex, its inner edge oblique to 

 submedian fold where it is angled. 



Huh. Be. New Guinea, Angabunga R. {Meek), type f J in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



*592 e. Neoscaptia leucodera. 



Neoscaptia leucodera^ Eoths?. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 471 (1905). 



Fore wing of male with fringe of scales on costa but without 

 fovea ; hind wing without patch of androconia. 



<$ . Head and thorax black suffused with metallic blue; tegulse 

 with white patches; pectus with lateral white patches in front; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing black-brown suffused with metallic- 



Fig. 176. — Neoscaptia leucodera, tf, J, 



blue except the costal area to beyond middle; a white antemedial 

 band from below costa to inner margin, rounded above and rather 

 constricted at vein 1; a whitish mark at upper angle of cell; a 

 triangular deep red patch beyond the cell ; a round subapical white 



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