XEOSCAPTTA. ")')7 



white ; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft white below. Fore 

 wing with the base black suffused with metallic blue; a broad 

 white antemedial band narrowing towards costa, its outer edge 

 oblique and sinuous; the rest of wing deep red edged with black- 

 brown, a small round white subapical spot on the outer edge of the 

 red area. Hind wing black-brown with a large oblique white patch 

 extending on costa from base to beyond middle and along vein 1 

 almost to termen, some white irroration below vein 1. 



Sab. Be. X. ( i i i x i; v, Mambare R.,Biagi (Meek), type f 5 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



*o92 i. Neoscaptia coeruleomarginata. (Plate XXXI. fig. 21.) 



Cnprimima ccernleomarginata, RothS. Nov. Zool. six. p. 241 (1912). 



$. Head and thorax black-brown glossed with blue; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft with some white 

 below. Fore wing with the basal half black-brown glossed with 

 metallic blue ; a white antemedial band from below costa to inner 

 margin, narrowing above, its outer edge curved and sinuous ; the 

 terminal half deep cupreous red with narrow black margins glossed 

 with metallic blue. Hind wing black-brown with conical white 

 patch from costa before middle to above inner margin ; the under- 

 side with the white extending on inner area to near base, a deep 

 red patch below costa towards apex. 



JSab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa II., Snow Mts. (Meek), tvpe f 

 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 2d millim. 



*592 t /'. Neoscaptia poecila, (Plate XXXI. fig. 25.) 

 Neoscaptia poscila, Roths. Nov. Zool. sii. p. 472 (1905), 



2 • Head and thorax black slightly suffused with metallic blue ; 

 tegulse with white patches ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft whitish 

 below. Fore wing fuscous black; a triangular white antemedial 

 patch in and below the cell; a small whitish discoidal spot; some 

 metallic blue suffusion on medial area before the large deep red 

 postmedial patch extending from below costa to inner margin 

 and slightly edged with metallic blue on outer side. Hind wing 

 fuscous with white patch on basal half from costa to win 1 ; the 

 underside with the white patch not extending to base, its outer 

 edge angled inwards below costa. 



Hab. Br, N. GUINEA, Angabunga R. (Meek), tvpe f $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



*592 /.-. Neoscaptia fascionitens. 



Neoscaptia fa8cionitens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 238 (1912). 



Fore wing with veins 8, 4 stalked ; hind wing with veins '.], I 

 stalked to near termen on left side, coincident on right side. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black glossed with metallic blue, 



