1898.] OF THE StTBFAMTLY PTRAFSTINJE. 745 



black ; patagia white ; thorax fulvous ; legs with fuscous bands ; 

 abdomen white, with subdorsal fulvous stripes, the terminal seg- 

 ments fulvous, with segmental white and fuscous bands ; anal 

 tuft black. Fore wing fulvous ; a black-edged oblique white basal 

 band ; similar subbasal and antemedial bands, the latter sometimes 

 crossed by a black streak on vein 1 ; black-edged spots on disco- 

 cellulars and vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped postmedial band from costa 

 to vein 2 ; a black-edged subterminal line expanding into a 

 bidentate patch below costa ; a fuscous patch below apex, and 

 silvery patch from below it to inner margin ; cilia black, white 

 towards tornus. Hind wing opalescent hyaline, with black-edged 

 discoidal fidvous patch ; the inner area fulvous ; the terminal 

 third of wing fulvous and fuscous, with black line on its inner 

 side and silvery terminal line expanding at middle ; cilia black, 

 white from middle to near tornus. 



Hab. Niger, Warri (Both). Exp. 26 mm. Types iu Coll. 

 Rothschild and B.M. 



(128) Gltphodes STBEPTOSTiGiMA, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 20.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, with two subdorsal fuscous 

 stripes ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish ; abdomen with some 

 orange-fulvous and leaden on dorsum towards extremity, the anal 

 tuft black. Fore wing narrow, semihyahne white ; oblique sub- 

 basal and antemedial fuscous bands with orange-fulvous centres ; 

 an oblique medial fuscous band with a large discoidal ocellus on 

 it, with white centre and fuscous and orange-fulvous rings, below 

 which is a contorted white mark like a spermatozoon with an oblique 

 orange line below it ; a large triangular white patch beyond the 

 medial band from costa to vein 3 ; the outer area fuscous, conjoined 

 to the medial band beyond vein 3, and with orange line near its 

 inner edge from costa to vein 3, followed by a white line reaching 

 inner margin and somewhat dentate towards costa ; some white 

 terminal points ; the cilia white towards tornus. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, with short fuscous streaks on base of median 

 nervure and diffused streaks on inner area ; an oblique discoidal 

 spot with slight white line on it and with a similar spot placed 

 obhquely below it, sometimes with large white centre ; the terminal 

 area fuscous, with nacreous and orange lines not reaching costa 

 or tornus, and followed by a wedge-shaped white subterminal 

 patch between vein 5 and tornus ; cilia black, white above and 

 below middle. 



Hah. Bonthain, Celebes (Everett, Doherty). Eccp. 40 mm. Types 

 in Coll. Rothschild and B.M. 



Subsp. 1. Abdomen without orange and leaden colour towards 

 extremity. Fore wing with the medial and antemedial bands 

 strongly anastomosing above inner margin ; the mark below the 

 discoidal ocellus more like an inverted lunule ; the white line on 

 terminal area broken up into spots ; a wedge-shaped white mark 

 above tornus. Hind wing with the oblique medial spots forming 



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