NEOSCAPTIA. —SCAPTESYLE. 599 



medial band narrowing considerably to eosta, then its inner edge 

 incurved and its outer edge excurved ; a deep cupreous red patch 

 occupying almost the whole of the terminal half of wing leaving 

 the margins narrowly black-brown, its inner edge somewhat angled 

 inwards to lower angle of cell. Hind wing white with a terminal 

 black-brown band expanding on apical area to middle of eosta. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown, the white antemedial band not 

 quite reaching the eosta. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Mt. Goliath {Meek), type f 6 , $ in 

 Coll Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 



*592n. Neoscaptia basinitens. (Plate XXXI. %. 28.) 

 Neoscaptia basinitens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 240 (1912), 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown suffused with metallic blue, 

 the tegulae pure white ; legs brown streaked with whitish ; abdomen 

 black-brown, the anal tuft white. Fore wing with the basal half 

 black-brown suffused with metallic blue, the terminal half deep 

 cupreous red with narrow black-brown edges. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal area black-brown, expanding at eosta almost to middle 

 and its inner edge angled at submedian fold. Underside of fore 

 wing dark reddish brown, the basal half of inner area white. 



Hob. Dutch N. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Meek), type f $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp, 22 millim, 



593 a. Scaptesyle fovealis, 



Scaptesyle fovealis, Hmpsn. A. M. N, H. (7) xi, p, 345 (1903), 



Fore wing of male with large fovea below the cell containing 

 flocculent tufts of scales; the cell long, narrow, curved, the veins 

 distorted and vein 2 becoming coincident with 3, 6 from below 

 angle of cell; hind wing with the eosta highly lobed with a large 

 glandular swelling below its middle, the veins distorted, and veins 

 3, 4 and 6, 7 coincident. 



Fig-. 178. — Scaptesyle fovealis ,' f. 



J. Head and tegulae golden yellow ; thorax and abdomen red- 

 brown tinged with purple. Fore wing red-brown tinged with 

 purple and suffused with blue-green at edges of yellow areas ; an 

 antemedial golden yellow band expanding towards eosta ; a terminal 

 yellow band, wide at eosta, narrowing to a point at fcornus, the edge 



