EAEIA3. 



497 



685 i. Earias novoguineana. (Plate CLXXXVII. tig. 5.) 



Earias novoguineana, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 219 (1906). 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; palpi and bides of frons scarlet ; 

 antennae brown, the basal joint scarlet; shoulders with scarlet 

 stripes ; fore legs brown above, mid legs with the femoro-tibial 

 joint brown with a little scarlet beyond it, the tarsi brown ; abdo- 

 men white, the anal tuft yellow. Fore Aving yellow tinged with 

 orange ; obliquely placed brown antemedial points in and below coll 

 and above inner margin; a round brown discoidal spot; a faint 

 brownish post medial line,excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, 

 with brown points on it below costa, at discal and submedian folds, 

 and above inner margin. Hind wing semibyaline yellowish white. 



Ilah. Ee. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pr.itt), 1 c? , 2 $ , Babooni (Pratt), 

 1 2 , Avola {Pratt}, i c? , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 S • Kvj). 34 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. liethune-Baker. 



6855. Earias rufopunctata. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 6.) 

 Earias rufo'punctata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 219 (1906). 



cj" . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi scarlet with brown 

 patch at side of 2nd joint, the extremity pale yellow; antennae 

 brown, the basal joint scarlet ; fore legs brown above, the bind legs 

 with the femoro-tibial joint brown and scarlet, the tarsi brown ; 

 abdomen white. Fore wing pale yellow, the costal edge tinged 

 with scarlet on basal half ; an oblique elliptical red-brown discoidal 

 spot with whitish centre. Hind wing semibyaline white, the 

 termen and cilia faintly tinged with yellow ; the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with yellow. 



$ . Fore wing without the discoidal spot. 



Hob. Be. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 2 J, 1 §. Exi^. 28 

 millim. 



6856. Earias uniplaga. 



Earias uniplaga, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 219 (1906). 

 J . Head and thorax pale yellow, the palpi dark brown with 



Fig. 189. —Earias uniplaga, J 



some scarlet in front and at extremity of 2r!d joint behind, the tuft 

 of hair on 2nd joint and the extremity of 3rd joint pale yellow; 



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