8 Miss A. E. Prout on some 



proximal dark shading in and behind cell, oblique and slightly 

 crennlate from two-iifths costa to two-thirds hind margin ; 

 reniform leaden-grey, with faint pale outline, narrowing 

 towards costa; an indistinct fine crenulate dark line nearly 

 parallel with the median line, but approaching it at hind 

 margin ; postmedial line a grey dash on costa, then a row 

 of indigo spots between the veins, angled out on SC, 

 excurved to fold, and angled out on SiM* ; an undulating 

 pale subterminal line from costa near apex to tornus, with 

 three black proximal darts behind costa, SC^ and SC, the 

 last the largest, proximally darkened from M^ to tornus ; a 

 row of pale-edged black marginal spots between the veins ; 

 fringe grey, with pale streaks at the veins. 



Hind wing with basal area hyaline, smoky brown along 

 hind margin, with the distal two-fifths and a lunule on DC" 

 and DC dark grey; fringe pale brown, shaded with grey 

 between the veins. 



Underside of fore wing smoky-grey, with some peacock- 

 green reflections on basal half of hind-marginal area and a 

 pale patch "between the origin of M^ and M"; five or six pale 

 spots on apical half of costa, with black spots between them ; 

 slight, dark medial, postmedial, and' suliterminal lines, as 

 above. Hind wing as above, with the costal area slightly 

 smoky and an oblique black streak from costa to the lunule 

 on discocelluiars. 



Rossel Is.; Mt. Rossel, 2100ft., Dec. 1915 {J¥. F. Eich- 

 horn), type and another $ . 



Sabro thuipinje. 



5. Blenina brevicosta, sp. n. (PL I. fig. 5.) 



$ . — 38 mm. 



Head and thorax white, thickly irrorated with green above 

 and with a few brown scales ; patagia with some black scales 

 near middle. Palpus and legs white, marked with brown 

 and black. Abdomen yellow above and beneath, with the' 

 anus browaier ; the crests greenish. 



Fore wing white, irrorated with green scales on the basal 

 half of wing and the postmedial area, with violet-brown on 

 tlie medial area — where it forms a sort of band — and on the 

 apical half of distal area ; a few brown scales on the costal 

 half of subl)asal area and some yellow hair at base of hind 

 margin. Subbasal line slight, blackish, curved to about 

 median nervure ; a black antemedial half-line from costa, 

 iingled outward to the subcostal and again above median ; 



