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fc riga above it from cost.a ; postniedial line indistinct, with blackish 

 n)ark at costa, minutely dentate, somewhat oblique to vein 4 then 

 incurved, the costal edge beyond it white with a black point on it • 

 subterrainal line black, minutely crenulate, angled outwards below' 

 vein 7, and escurved at middle, some black on terminal area at apex, 

 middle, and above tornus ; a terminal series of minute green lunulcs • 

 cilia brownish with series of small black spots at base and some- 

 white at tips at middle. Hind wing orange- yellow, the basal, 

 costal and inner areas suffused with brown ; a broad black terminal 

 band leaving some orange on termen except at apex, its inner edge 

 slightly waved ; cilia orange, blackish at apex and with some white 

 at middle. Underside of fore wing yellow with large diffused dis- 

 coidal brown patch connected by a bar with costa, and broad 

 terminal band ; hind wing yellow with medial blackish bar from 

 costa, slight spot at lower angle of cell, and terminal band. 



Bah. Dutch jST. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 c? ; Be. N. Gucnea, 

 Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 c? type. E.i^^. 36 millim. 



6740. Blenina malacMtis. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 3.) 



Blenina malacMtis, HmpsD. A. M. N. H. (7) svi. p. 646 (1905). 



Head and thorax bright sap-green, the latter with slight dark 

 irroration ; palpi above and antennae black, pectus and legs yellowish 

 fore tibiae green in front, the tarsi brown ringed with white • 

 abdomen reddish brown, the terminal half in male with lateral 

 fringes of hair curved over dorsum, the ventral surface whitish, 

 blackish at extremity. Fore wing whitish almost entirely suffused 

 with emerald-green, with more or less blackish suffusion on medial 

 and postmedial areas, and sometimes some rufous suffusion beyond 

 the cell ; an obliquely curved, slightly waved black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, with an indistinct dark bar beyond 

 it from cell to submedian fold ; a more or less distinct double 

 antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and cell and at vein 1 • 

 a slight black discoidal bar with whitish point before it ; post- 

 medial line slightly bent outwards below costa, minutely dentate to 

 vein 3, then strongly incurved and oblique to inner margin, with 

 another less distinct line beyond it from costa to vein 3 ; sub- 

 terminal line black, green at middle, very minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, bent inwards at vein 2, 

 and oblique to near tornus ; a blackish patch at apex and below 

 vein 6 ; the tips of the veins with slight black streaks with whitish 

 striae between them ; cilia whitish tinged with green and with 

 brown towards apex, wit,h series of black points on them. Hind 

 wing black-brown, darker towards termen ; a more or less developed 

 curved yellowish postmedial bar between veins 5 and 2, emitting 

 a streak towards base below the cell ; cilia yellow, blackish at 

 apex and with some dark points at middle. Underside of fore 

 wing dull yellowish with blackish medial band, diffused except at 



