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edge of the central band. Basal area to inner edge of band dark 

 Iyrian-blue. Hind wing dark Iyrian-blue with a distal margin of 

 ground-colour, broader at the apex and narrowing to the anal angle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black. Antennae black ; collar red ; 

 palpi black ; legs fuscous-black thinly scaled with metallic blue ; 

 abdomen with some metallic blue scaling on the ventral surface. 



Venation of fore wing with 4 and 5 arising from the same point, 6 

 from a little beyond base of 8. 



Length of fore wing : 19 mm. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, 6,000 feet, November to 

 January, three S $ . 



11. Clematoessa virgata sp. nov. 



The second known species in this genus. Distinguished by the 

 yellow apical patch and basal stripe on the fore wing. 



This genus is described by Jordan in Nov. Zool. xxii, p. 297, 1915, 

 from a single female. We are able to describe another species in- 

 cluding the cf . The <? antenna has very long branches. 



8 . Upperside with ground-colour fuscous-black, markings light 

 cadmium to apricot yellow (iv). Fore wing with a small apical spot 

 rounded on the outside, indented on vein 9 on the inside. A large cell 

 stripe not reaching end of cell, narrow at base and broadening to 

 beyond upper edge of cell, then becoming narrower and rounded at the 

 end. Hind wing with a large discal patch filling outer third of cell to 

 within about 2 mm. of the margin at veins 4 and 5, outer edge nearer 

 the cell above 5, not reaching 8, and limited by vein 2 ; inner edge 

 incurved in the cell, angled before the base of 2. 



Underside as above. Cell stripe of fore wing produced towards 

 lower angle of cell. 



Antenna with long branches, longer than in most genera, fuscous- 

 black. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous-black. Frons projecting, 

 well rounded. Collar yellow. Patagia fuscous-black mixed with 

 metallic green. Legs fuscous, striped with metallic blue. Abdomen 

 yellowish-white on ventral surface. 



? . Fore wing markings as in the 8 , but larger and deeper in tone. 

 Hind wing with a broad band of orange (iii), covering the distal area 

 between vein 5, and the lower submedian, paler at the anal angle ; 

 inner edge irregular, not reaching base of 2, outer edge sharply marked, 

 curved slightly outwards from 5, almost reaching 7 ; anterior part of 

 band curved proximally. 



