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Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, twenty-nine $ $ , 

 five ? 2 . 



9. Tiracola concolor sp. nov. 

 $ 2 , 68—75 mm. 



Head, thorax, and palpus typically greenish-grey (sometimes tinged 

 with pale rufous), the second segment of palpus blackish on outer side, 

 the hair on metathorax tipped with dark purplish-red ; abdomen above 

 greyish-brown with the lateral and anal hair pale ochreous-brown, 

 more or less shaded with pale rufous. 



Fore wing typically greenish-grey, sometimes almost entirely 

 suffused with pale rufous ; the lines almost obsolete. Four black dots 

 at nearly even distances along costa, marking the origin of the four 

 lines (to the postmedial) ; an antemedial black dot sometimes present 

 on SM 2 at about one-third from base ; two of the 2 2 with a broad 

 dark band occupying the whole medial area (red-brown in one, purple- 

 brown in the other), and three of the 3 S with some medial clouding 

 on anterior third of wing ; reniform a whitish or yellowish lunule, 

 surrounded by greenish or grey shading and (more or less distinctly) by 

 an annulus of white spots edged with red-brown (in the banded forms this 

 annulus is nearly lost) ; a postmedial row of slight black spots on the 

 veins (obsolete on E' 2 ), bent outwards from four- sevenths costa to R 1 , 

 slightly bent inward from R 3 to SM 2 (in two $ $ these spots are 

 obsolete) ; a yellow subterminal line, distally dark-edged, from SC 5 to 

 fold, bent inward before R 2 , then slightly excurved ; termen (except 

 apex) strongly darkened in the five banded specimens, slightly so in 

 two or three other $ 3" and the other ? ; a row of black and white 

 interneural spots close to termen ; fringe predominantly fuscous, rufous 

 opposite the veins, with a fine pale terminal line. 



Hind wing almost as in T. rufimargo, but with the smoky areas 

 darker and the hyaline patch in $ (not present in " both sexes " of 

 rufimargo, as Warren erroneously states in Seitz Macro-Lepid.) more 

 conspicuous; ? hind wing with the rufous shades somewhat reduced. 



Underside of fore wing as in rufimargo Warr. ; $ typically with 

 the whole hind wing suffused with rufous ; 2 with the rufous tinge on 

 hind wing slighter ; one 2 and some $ $ with the anterior third of 

 hind wing pale ochreous (not the proximal and posterior areas, as in 

 rufimargo.) 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919 ; twenty-two $ $ , 

 three 2 2 . 



Distinctly the largest species as yet described in this genus. 



