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edge strongly curved inwards below the white spot, minute white 

 spots just beyond it above and below vein 0. Hind wing black ; 

 an oblique white patch extending on costa from base to beyond 

 middle and to vein 1 near termen ; some white irroration below 

 vein 1 except towards base ; the underside with small red subapical 

 patch. 



Hob. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare K., Biagi {Meek), tvpef 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



602 g. Caprimima bipuncta. (Plate XXXI. fig. 30.) 

 Caprimima bipuncta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 241 (1912). 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with metallic blue ; tibiae 

 white in front except at base and extremity, the fore and mid tarsi 

 with white band on basal joint; abdomen black-brown, the anal 

 tuft greyish above, white below. Fore wing black-brown, the basal 

 area suffused with metallic blue; a large conical white antemcdial 

 patch from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; a round white spot 

 beyond upper angle of cell ; a deep red subterminal patch from 

 below costa to vein 1, rounded above and below and narrowing 

 above, a white bar-like spot beyond it between veins 7 and 5. 

 Hind wing black with a conical white patch extending on costa 

 from near base to beyond middle and to vein 1. 



Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi {Meek), type f 5 

 in Coll. Rothschild ; Goodenough I. {Meek), 1 6 , 1 $ . Exp. 

 20 millim. 



*002 h. Caprimima biguttata. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1.) 



Caprimima biguttata, Roths. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 419 (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black; fore legs and the 

 greater part of mid and hind legs white in front ; abdomen with 

 white ventral patch towards extremity ; wings black. Fore wing 

 with bell-shaped white medial patch from subcostal nervure to 

 inner margin ; a rounded white spot be} r ond upper angle of cell ; a 

 deep red subterminal patch from below costa to above vein 1, its 

 inner edge excised at the white spot; a geminate white spot 

 before termen on vein 0. Hind wing with broad white medial 

 band with sinuous edges from costa to just above inner margin. 



/lab. New Guinea, Milne Pay {Meek), type cS in Coll. 

 Rothschild, Kapaur {Doherti/) ; Woodlark I. {Meek). Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Subsp. 1. reducta, Roths. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 420 (1901). 

 2 . Fore wing with the medial white patch reduced and conical ; 

 hind wing with the medial band narrower and not reaching vein 1. 



ILab. New Hanover {Webster), type t $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



