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line and a white spot on termen. Lines obscure, double, blackish, the 

 subbasal only visible at costa and in fold ; antemedial from one-fifth 

 costa to one-fifth hindmargin, bent outward behind costa and inward to 

 hindmargin, interrupted at the veins ; postmedial from costa at three- 

 fifths to three-quarters hindmargin, outwardly oblique to before R 3 , 

 inwardly oblique from behind R 3 to hindmargin, interrupted at the 

 veins ; an ill-defined medial dark shade, excurved from costa at about 

 two-fifths to near middle of hindmargin, indistinctly double on costal 

 third ; an ill-defined pale reddish reniform, with a black line near its 

 proximal edge ; subterminal line pale reddish, well-defined, bent inward 

 behind costa and angled behind R 3 , obsolescent behind SM 2 , finely 

 interrupted at the veins ; a lunular white spot on termen behind R 3 , 

 and reddish-violet marginal lunules in the other interspaces, proximally 

 shaded with black ; a slight dark marginal line ; fringe blackish, with 

 a fine pale line at base, and interrupted by ochreous opposite the white 

 spot. 



Hind wing smoky-brown, with a slight, diffused whitish median 

 band from end of cell to tornus ; fringe whitish, chequered with fuscous 

 at apex and R 1 and from R 2 almost to fold, with a slight dark line at 

 middle. 



Underside of both wings smoky-brown, the hind wing with the 

 basal half whiter except at costa ; fore wing with the distal half of costa 

 ochreous, and the white terminal spot reproduced below ; hind wing 

 with fringe chequered as above. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, one ? . 



41. Ophisma pallescens Wlkr. intermedia subsp. nov. 



3 ? , 102—108 mm. 



Intermediate between pallescens pallescens Wlkr. (from Sarawak) 

 and pallescens subplaga Beth.-Bak. (from New Guinea), the black ter- 

 minal patch on hind wing starting at or just behind SC 5 and ending 

 about M 1 (though with a slight dark shade behind it to near tornus) 

 and broader than in either of the other two forms, being sometimes 

 nearly circular. Fore wing tinged with violet, the markings rather 

 strong. 



Hind wing above with the hair on posterior third a little redder 

 than in either of the other two subspecies. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, eleven $ $ , 

 fourteen ? ? . 



