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6745. Blenina metanyctea. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 5.) 

 Blenina metanyctea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7; svi. p. 543 (1905). 



(S . Head and thorax white and green mixed with some fuscous ; 

 tegulse black at outer edge and with black line near tips ; pectus and 

 legs j^ellowish tinged with brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with brown, the crests at 

 base whitish tipped with black. Fore wiug white largely suffused 

 with bright green ; a diff"used irregular olive-green and reddish 

 brown band from middle of costa to torntis ; a black line close to 

 base angled in cell and with a black striga beyond it above inner 

 margin ; a waved, rather inwardly oblique auteraodial line from 

 costa to above inner margin ; an indistinct waved medial line ; 

 reniforra white irrorated with green, its lower pait defined on inner 

 side by a curved black line and slightly by black on outer side, its 

 upper part very indistinctly and irregularly defined by green, with 

 a black striga from costa above it ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 minutely dentate, strongly incurved in submedian interspace ; a 

 minutely dentate subterminal line bent inwards at vein 2, then 

 obliqtie to near tornus ; a dark patch at apex and a terminal series 

 of white spots except towards tornus interrupted by the black ter- 

 minations of the veins ; cilia yellowish with a series of brown spots 

 and points at tips to vein 3. Hind wing dark brown, the inner 

 margin yellowish-; cilia yellowish with series of brown spots to 

 vein 2 ; the underside yellow, the inner area tinged with brown, 

 an irregular baud from costa to lower angle of cell and a broad 

 blackish band just before termen from costa to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the diffused green and brown band from 

 middle of costa to tornus but with some black suffusion on middle 

 of costa, and oblique black marks between postmedial line at vein 

 4 and tornus. 



Hob. Dutch N'ew Guinea, Kapaur {Dohertu), 1 c? fcj'pe, Fak-fak 

 (Pratt), 1 J . Kv^}. 42 millim. 



B. (Blenina.) Fore wing witli the termen evenlj curved ; 

 hind wing with the termen sliglitly excised below vein 2. 

 a. Antennffi of male with long fasciculate cilia. 



a^. Hind wing with indistinct postmedial line with pale 

 band beyond it. 

 a^. Hind wing with the basal area ochreous suffused 



with brown quinaria. 



b". Hind wing with the basal area whitish sul^fused 



with brown ....._. obliquinaria. 



h^. Hind wing without postmedial line. 



a^. Hind wing almost uniform fuscous brown. 



a''. Fore wing with the basal half green, the ter- 

 minal half brown chloromclana. 



h^. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish. 

 «.*. Fore wing largely suffused with green and 

 with iri-egular black markings on medial 

 and terminal areas smaragdina. 



