ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES. 395 



Described from a single example in my collection presented to me 

 by Mr. W. Doherty, who captured it himself at Humboldt's Bay, 

 North-West New Guinea. 



Genus EETION, nov. 



Male. Foeewing, elongated, narrow ; cosia nearly straight, 

 slightly arched only ; apex acute ; outer margin at the apes nearly at 

 right-angles to the costa, afterwards strongly inwardly oblique, 

 straight ; inner margin straight, equal in length to the outer margin ; 

 costal nervure ending on the costa before the apex of the discoidal cell ; 

 subcostal nenules counting from the base of the wing arising from the 

 subcostal nervure at decreasing distances apart ; discoidal cell narrow, 

 long, extending to nearly two -thirds the length of the wing from the 

 base ; upper disco-cellular nervule short, strongly outwardly oblique ; 

 middle disco-celullar long, recurved, strongly inwardly oblique ; lower 

 disco-cellular short, nearly half the length of the middle but twice 

 as long as the upper disco-cellular, strongly inwardly oblique ; lower 

 discoidal nervule in consequence of the greater length of the middle 

 disco-cellular arising much nearer to the third median than to the upper 

 discoidal nervule ; second median nervule arising far before the lower 

 end of the cell ; first median arising a little farther from the second 

 than that nervule does from the third, arising much nearer to the 

 base of the wing than to the lower end of the cell ; submedian nervure 

 slightly curved ; secondary sexual characters consist on the upperside 

 of the wing of a narrow inwardly oblique brand or line of scales 

 arising from the second median nervule just after its origin, extending 

 across the first median interspace, and ending on the submedian 

 internervular fold ; and on the underside of the wing of a strong tuft 

 or brush of hairs directed forwards and arising near the base of the 

 wing in the middle of the sutural area. Hind wing, much longer 

 than broad ; costa greatly arched at base, gently arched from thence 

 to the apex ; apex rounded ; outer margin regularly curved to the termi- 

 nation of the submedian nervure, beyond which the margin is produced 

 lobe-like ; anal angle rounded ; abdominal margin nearly straight ; 

 costal nervure long, gently curved throughout its length, ending at 

 the apex of the wing ; first subcostal nervule arising far before the 

 apex of the cell ; disco- cellular nervules slightly concave, slightly 



