508 A.ECTIADJE. 



the anal tuft white below. Fore wing black ; the basal area glossed 

 with metallic blue ; a broad pure white antemedial band with 

 sinuous edges, narrowing considerably to eosta ; a band of silvery 

 blue suffusion near the inner edge of the black terminal half ; an 

 elliptical deep chocolate-red subterminal patch from below eosta to 

 above inner margin, followed by a silvery blue band with dentate 

 outer edge. Hind wing black-brown with oblique conical white 



Fig. 177. — Neoscaptia fusci mitens, rf • f. 



patch extending on eosta from base to beyond middle and to above 

 tornus. Ui derside of fore wing fuscous black, the red reduced to 

 a fascia below eosta towards apex. 



Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare II., Biagi (MeeJc), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. IS millim. 



*592 /. Neoscaptia affinis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 2G.) 



Neoscaptia affinis, Boths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 239 (1912). 



2 ■ Head and thorax black suffused with metallic blue, the 

 tegulae pure wfaite ; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft white 

 below. Fore wing black; the basal area glossed with metallic 

 blue ; a broad white antemedial band with sinuous edges narrowing 

 considerably to eosta; a broad rounded dee]) chocolate-red sub- 

 terminal patch from below eosta to just above inner margin, defined 

 on inner side by silvery blue suffusion and on outer narrowly by 

 silvery blue with dentate outer edge. Hind wing black-brown 

 with oblique conical white patch extending on eosta from base to 

 beyond middle and to above tornus. Underside of fore wing 

 fuscous black with the red reduced to a fascia below apical part 

 of eosta. 



Hah. Br. X. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi (Meek), type f $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. This is possibly the female of 

 N. fascionitens. 



*592w. Neoscaptia albicollis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 27.) 



Neoscaptia albicollis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 240 (1912). 



Head and thorax black-brown glossed with metallic blue, the 

 tegulae pure white: abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft whitish. 

 Pore wing black suffused with metallic blue; abroad white ante- 



