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mostly w^hite, some white at base of inner margin ; a small quad- 

 rate subbasal black spot on costa defined by white, a point in cell 

 and wedge-shaped black patch below the cell with white patch 

 beyond it before the autemedial line, which is black defined by 

 white on inner side, oblique, angled inwards below costa and bent 

 outwards above inner margin, a black fascia from it to postmedial 

 line above vein 1, defined by white above; a trilobate black 

 discoidal spot defined by Avhite ; postmedial line black defined by 

 white on outer side, forming a wedge-shaped spot on costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then rather maculate and incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved and stronger below vein 2 and outwardly oblique 

 to inner margin, a black point beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a black spot on costa, then some points, a 

 lunule at vein 5 and irregular spot at tornus, with a green band 

 beyond it interrupted below middle ; a quadrate terminal black 

 patch at apes, semicircular patch at discal fold and spot above 

 vein 2 ; cilia chequered black green and white. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia slightly intersected 

 with white ; the underside whitish, the costal half and terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Babooni {Pratt), type t in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 40 millim. 



*G750. Blenina nigrans. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 9.) 

 Blenma nigroMS, Beth .-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 222 (1906). 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown with some white scales mixed, 

 the frons much whiter with a blackish bar above ; palpi white with, 

 black patches at base of joints, the 2nd joint black behind ; pectus 

 and legs white mixed with some brown, the tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests blackish, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Eore wing black-brown, irrorated with 

 white, a diffused whitish patch on costal half of postmedial area, 

 the terminal area whitish ; subbasal line represented by black spots 

 below costa and cell ; an ill-defined diffused slightly sinuous ante- 

 medial line ; medial line minutely waved, double below the cell and 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 1 ; two black discoidal points ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side from costa to vein 4, 

 double at costa, sinuous, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, a black 

 point beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner 

 side by black, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a diffused black 

 apical spot ; a terminal series of white spots separated by minute 

 black streaks on the veins ; cilia white and brown with a series of 

 blackish spots at base. Hind wing deep glossy fuscous, cilia 

 chequered white and fuscous at middle ; the underside whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, the terminal half fuscous, an 

 oblitiue fuscous postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. N. Guiniia, Dinawa {Pratt), type f in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 36 millim. 



