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interrupted) running to hindmargin near tornus, its distal (rarely 

 interrupted, never obsolete) towards hind margin, which it almost 

 (but never quite) reaches between M 2 and fold ; in one aberration 

 there is also a small white spot in the cell, near its end. Hind wing 

 with the orange band less variable than in the $ , averaging about 

 2 mm. in width, just crossing E 3 . 



Note. — In Eothschild and Jordan's original description of this 

 genus (D. E. Z., 1907, p. 197), " second and third radials " is a 

 laps. cal. for " first and second." 



2 , ab. dichroa ab. nov. Band of fore wing orange. 



Central Ceram, 4,600 feet, four 2 2 typical, four ab. dichroa ; 

 Manusela, 6,000 feet, nine 2 2 typical, one ab. dichroa. 



The 2 forms much resemble the enigmatical Craspedosis bicolorata 

 Warr. (see supra), but differ in the clearer, differently shaped markings 

 (that of hind wing not so reduced) and in the lack of yellow on abdo- 

 men posteriorly beneath. Probably fractura Prout is really nearer to 

 apora than is trichroa, but its 2 is still unknown ; in that of trichroa 

 the venation agrees with that of the <? . 



23. Milionia leucomelas Montrz., scotomelas sp. nov. 



S . 



The yellow band of the hind wing above greatly reduced, forming 

 a short triangle which tapers to a point at M 1 or E 3 and is generally 

 much dusted over with black scales, in extreme aberrations entirely 

 suppressed, as in the 2 ; beneath generally with hardly a suggestion 

 of yellow scaling. 



2 . 



Hind wing above and beneath entirely black, or rarely with a 

 yellow subtornal dot. Abdomen with the black belts commonly much 

 broadened, reducing the yellow to very narrow rings. 



Central Ceram, 3,000 feet, January to February, 1920, six $ $ 

 five 2 2 , including the type S and the allotype 2 ; 4,600 feet, 

 January, 1920, one $ , two 2 2 . 



M. leucomelas Montrz. (Faune Woodlark, p. 131, 1856) is the 

 oldest name for the collective species which has commonly been 

 called callimorpha Oberth. ; leucomelas leucomelas supplants calli- 

 morpha brevis Eoths. 



