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spot and a reniform streak ; postinedial line dark red-brown, from 

 three-fifths costa to three-fifths hind margin, nearly straight but slightly 

 excurved behind SC 5 ; subterminal line proximally black-outlined and 

 with some proximal dark suffusion on anterior two-fifths, waved and 

 dentate, strongly excurved from E 2 to M 2 and angled outward on SM 2 ; 

 a triangular dark patch on anterior half of termen, extending to 

 beyond subterminal line from SC 5 to E 2 ; a row of interneural terminal 

 pale lunules ; a broad dark terminal line ; fringe blackish with a fine 

 violet line at base. 



Hind wing grey-brown, rather paler towards base and with some 

 violet irroration on distal fourth of wing (especially about E 3 and M 1 ) ; 

 termen and fringe as on the fore wing, but the fringe tipped here and 

 there with white. 



Underside of both wings greyish-brown tinged with violet (especially 

 the hind wing and distal half of fore wing) ; both wings with slight 

 dark cellspot and diffused, excurved postmedial line ; fore wing with a 

 subterminal white dot behind SC 4 ; hind wing with a broadly-diffused, 

 curved subterminal dark shade ; fringe of both wings chequered with 

 white at tips. 



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



2 , 38 mm. 



I provisionally place here a very worn ? from the same place and 

 elevation. Fore wing dark-brown, showing only a few scattered violet 

 scales (at base, on postmedial line and especially on subterminal line) ; 

 orbicular black spot standing out strongly ; lines almost lost, the sub- 

 terminal being best defined ; terminal triangular dark patch just as in 

 the $ . Hind wing much paler than in the 3 (owing to condition ?) 

 and without violet irroration. Underside also paler but agreeing with 

 the $ in markings. Palpus less thickly hairy than in the $ and 

 without hair on the third joint above ; otherwise agrees. 



Near to (perhaps race of) a form from New Guinea, two unnamed 

 specimens in coll. Brit. Mus. 



70. Hypena ceramensis sp. nov. 



$ , 33 mm. 



Antenna ciliate. Palpus nearly as in H. euphyes, but the third 

 segment with the scaling less triangular (broader at base and narrower 

 towards tips). 



