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front of pectus crimson ; anal tuft crimson. Fore wing with the 

 costal area to beyond middle crimson, the inner area orange ; the 

 costal edge black ; a rather broad black fascia on basal half of 

 inner margin; a very broad black terminal band shot with blue, 

 its inner edge retracted below vein 7 to cell, then nearly erect to 

 inner margin beyond middle. Hind wing orange-yellow with 

 black terminal band, narrowing to a point at tornus and its inner 

 edge sinuous ; the underside with the costa suffused with crimson 

 and with a little black at base. 



Hub. Solomon Is., Guizo I. (Meek), type t 2 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



*W2a. Chionsema postdivisa. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 14.) 



Chionxma postdiviaa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 192 (1913). 



5 . Head black glossed with metallic blue ; tegulas and patagia 

 orange-yellow ; thorax and abdomen black-brown ; pectus orange- 

 yellow in front ; fore legs glossed with blue ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow ; the costa black, 

 glossed with blue towards base ; a narrow terminal black band 

 running inwards on inner area to below end of cell and extending 

 to submedian fold. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a terminal black 

 band, broad at costa, narrowing to submedian fold and to a point at 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing with the terminal third black- 

 brown with curved slightly sinuous inner edge. 



ILab. Br. N. Guinea, Lr. Mambare R. (JSLeeV), type f $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 38 millim. 



003. Chionsema fulvia, insert :— 

 Clerchia fulvia, trigona, Roths. Nov. Zool. x. p. 312 (1903). 



Fore wing with the black on costa narrower, the scarlet extending 

 to termen leaving the cilia and a wedge-shaped patch at tornus 

 black. Hind wing with the inner area black. 



Rah. Ba. N. Guinea, Aroa R. {Welshe). 



663 a. Chionaenia metamelas, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. lo.) 



S . Head black, the frons glossed with blue ; thorax scarlet 

 with some black on prothorax ; pectus and legs black, the pectus 

 scarlet in front; abdomen black-brown slightly glossed with blue, 

 the ventral surface scarlet on basal half. Fore wing deep scarlet, 

 the costa black-brown, slightly expanding before and beyond end 

 of cell and glossed with blue at middle ; the inner margin black- 

 brown ; the terminal area broadly black-brown extending as a 

 broad fascia on inner area to middle. Hind wing black-brown 

 with slight pale scarlet streaks on base of median nervure and 

 .vein 1. Underside black-brown ; fore wing with the basal half 



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