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brown, rather strongly marked ; antemedial line apparently oblique and 

 waved (not erect and waved, as in most Ericeia species) but very ill- 

 defined ; the dotted black postmedial line on the hind wing unusually 

 straight. 



Underside very pale ochreous-grey, irrorated as above, with no 

 definite markings but an ill-defined waved postmedial line, crossing 

 both wings, a diffused discal spot and a smaller spot in cell on the fore 

 wing and a slight celldot on the hind wing. 



4,600 feet, January, 1920, one S . 



A 2 from Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, 

 probably belongs to this species. 



2 , 53 mm. 



Differs in the rather weaker reniform and in the stronger lines, 

 which are dotted with black, especially at the apex and distal part 

 of hindmargin of fore wing and towards abdominal margin of hind 

 wing. Antemedial line erect and waved. Underside darker than in 

 the 3 , with the outer lines indistinctly defined. General tone more 

 ochreous than in the $ . 



Unusually broad-winged for an Ericeia species ; fore wing with 

 the base of costa somewhat unusually rounded. Does not seem to 

 agree with any previously described species. 



52. Platyja cyanocraspis Hmpsn. lecerfi subsp. nov. 



3 , 76 mm. 



Head, body and fore wing above as in the type form from New 

 Guinea except that the termen is a little paler, more violet, and is 

 divided from the dark area by a sharper white line. 



Hind wing rather blacker in tone than in average New Guinea 

 specimens, with the termen more contrasted (as on the fore wing) 

 and with a large pure white apical patch. 



Underside nearly as in typical cyanocraspis, but with the postmedial 

 line more indistinct (almost entirely without the white dots on the 

 veins) and with stronger blue-white irroration at apex of fore wing. 



2 , 78 mm. 



Thorax and fore wing redder and somewhat paler than in the $ ; 



the termen of both wings deeper violet, rather broader than in the 



8 , crossed by a strong dark terminal line and proximally dark-edged ; 



lines and annulus of reniform predominantly bluish-white ; fore wing 



with a round dark orbicular ; posterior two-thirds of distal half of 



