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the cell to the first median branch; several small black spots 
and dots are also scattered over the surface near to the costal, 
external, and internal borders: secondaries rose-pink, cream- 
coloured at external border; a large black spot at the end of 
the cell, a smaller oval submarginal spot on the radial inter- 
space, and two unequal spots placed obliquely near the anal 
angle: thorax sordid cream-colour ; margins of collar slightly 
rosy ; two black spots on the collar, a black dash on the 
tegulz, and a longitudinal black central stripe on the thorax : 
abdomen bright rose-pink, with dorsal and lateral series of | 
black spots. Wings below pinky white, the primaries with 
the basal two thirds washed with vermilion; the black mark- 
ings nearly as above: secondaries with the discocellular black 
spot extended as an oblique streak to costa; pectus smoky- 
brown, sparsely clothed with bright rose-red hairs; venter 
cream-coloured. Eixpanse of wings 45 millim. 
Duke-of- York Island. 
The Chelonia costata of Boisduval, both sexes of which are 
in the collection from Duke-of-York Island, is apparently a 
species of Phissama. M. Boisduval says, “ L’abdomen avec 
trois rangées de points noirs en dessus et deux en dessous, ce 
qui la distingue de fulvia, laquelle Donovan a représentée 
avec l’abdomen entiérement jaune.” But the Museum copy 
of Donovan shows three dorsal spots on the abdomen, and 
were they entirely omitted it would probably only be due to 
the rubbed condition of Donovan’s type. I fear therefore 
that we shall have to adopt the name of Phissama fulvia for 
this species. 
On the same plate with the latter, Donovan gives a poor 
figure of the Hypsa eusemioides of Felder as ‘Noctua versi- 
color”? of Fabricius, whereas the latter is evidently a species 
with a white costal* stripe, and said to have come from the 
West Indies, or, as Fabricius says, the islands of America. 
Al. Areas hyporhoda, sp. n. 
g. Primaries above ochreous, with a black spot at the end 
of the cell, and two on the basal half of the internal border: 
secondaries rose-colour, with a black spot at the end of the cell: 
thorax ochreous ; abdomen rose-red, with dorsal and lateral 
series of small black spots. Wings below rose-coloured to- 
wards the base, ochreous towards the external borders; a 
black spot at the end of each discoidal cell: body below 
rose-red, the centre of: the venter ochraceous. Expanse of 
wings 44 millim. 
* “ Fascia abbreviata alba ad marginem crassiorem,” 
