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margin, where it is lost iii the yellow area, which is as in 

 the ^ ; torual half of distal margin yellow, sparsely irrorated 

 with brown; fringes brown from apex to about R^, then 

 yellow. 



Underside o£ fore wing red-brown, with the postmedial 

 line as above, but with distinct yellow line outside it ; a row 

 of yellow spots between the veins close to termen. Hind 

 wing with a dark spot ringed by yellow round DC* and 

 DC^, the discocellulars themselves pale yellowish ; postmedial 

 line and yellow terminal spots as on fore wing; the yellow 

 shade of abdominal margin extended to beyond M^ except 

 at base, with scattered brown vertical dashes. 



North Borneo, one $ . Also ? from Labuan, in imper- 

 fect condition, which seems to have the yellow areas on 

 hind wing a little reduced. 



The $ of this species was described in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 ffist. (9) iii. p. 169 (1919), from Sandakan, N. Borneo. 



12. Achcea ochrocraspeda, sp. n. 

 (PI. II. fig. 3, s ; PI. III. fig. 1, ?.) 



(^ . — 76 mm. 



Head, thorax, palpus, antenna^ abdomen, and legs brown ; 

 the pectus, femora, and tibiae (especially the hind tibia) 

 clothed with long, woolly, brown hair. 



Fore wing rich glossy brown, slightly shot with violet on 

 the medial area, especially on the antemedial and postmedial 

 lines, the former of which is dark brown, almost straight, 

 from costa at 12 mm. to hind margin at 11 mm. ; faint traces 

 of darkening on DC- and DC^ and of one or two curved 

 medial shades ; postmedial line brown with a white line 

 outside it, starting from costa at 21 mm., outwardly oblique 

 to R- where it is gently curved inward, then almost straight 

 to hind margin at 18 mm.; fringe yellowish-white, having 

 some brown shading from M^ to M'^, then dark brown. 



Hind wing rich glossy brown, the basal one-third clothed 

 with rough thick hair ; a pale curved line, just distally to 

 middle of wing, and traces of a dotted outer line midway 

 to termen ; a small yellowish-white apical patch ; fringe 

 yellowish-white to M". 



Underside of both wings brown with distal area paler ; 

 a dark spot on the discocellulars ; a faint medial dark shade ; 

 a dentate, slightly curved postmedial line at nearly two- 

 thirds ; a broad, slightly purplish, diffused subtermiual 

 shade with somewhat crenulate outer edge, meeting dark 

 shade from apex and tornus on fore wing ; a row of minute 



