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one minute ; a marginal row of smaller spots. Underside paler ; 

 both rows of spots the same as above ; fore wing also with a 

 minute spot above end of the cell, one at lower end of the cell, 

 and two beyond the end, and a long pale violaceous-white spot below 

 the median : hind wing also with a small spot at lower end of the 

 cell and a series of five spots beyond. 



Expanse, 5 3| inches. 



Hab. Thursday Island. In coll. British Museum. 



7. Gamatoba diadema, n. sp. 



Male. Dark purplish violet-brown, anal area of hind wing paler : 

 fore wing with a curved subapical series of foursmall indistinct whitish- 

 brown spots : hind wing with two marginal rows of more distinct 

 small brownish-white spots. Underside — fore wing with the four 

 subapical spots distinct and white, and three lower marginal dots, 

 oue also on the disk : hind wing with a minute white spot at lower 

 end of the cell, and four on the disk beyond ; marginal rows more 

 distinct than above. 



Female. Paler, and of a more ochreous violet-brown tint : fore 

 wing with four distinct creamy-white upper submarginal spots, a 

 small spot on the costa, one between upper and middle median veins, 

 and a marginal row of minute spots : hind wing with a marginal and 

 submarginal row of large distinct creamy-white spots. 



Expanse, c? 3, $ 3| inches. 



Hab. Port Moresby, New Guinea. In coll. G. Semper and H. 

 G. Smith. 



8. Gamatoba nox. 



Euploea nox, Butler, Proc. Zool. See. 1866, p. 2/8, 6 • 

 Crastia nox, Butler, Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 298. 

 Hab. Aru Islands. 



9. Gamatoba melancholica. 



Euploea melancholica, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 280, d ■ 

 Crastia melancholica, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 298. 

 Euploea harrisii, Boisd. MS., S . 

 Hab. Amboina. In coll. Godman and Salvin, and British Museum. 



10. Gamatoba cerberus. 



Crastia cerberus, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, x. p. 40, <? $ ( 1 882). 

 Hab. New Britain ; New Ireland. 



11. Gamatoba spiculifera, n. sp. 



Male. Dark violet-brown : fore wings with a small greyish-white 

 speckled spot at lower end of the cell, a minute costal spot above 

 end of the cell, three small discal spots, and a submarginal upper 

 row of six small dentate bluish-white spots. Underside paler : fore 

 wing marked as above, the spots being more distinct ; a short 

 streak also between median and submedian ; hind wing with a 

 minute white dot at end of the cell, a slender streak below subcostal 



