AITETA. 531 



an obli(]ue wliito streak from base of costa in submedian fold to 

 beyond antemedial line, which is white and very oblique ; a small 

 dark discoidal spot; postmedial line white and very oblique from 

 costa to vein 3 towards termen, thea curved inwards to a white 

 patch at toriius ; traces of a minutely waved dark subterminal line, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia white towards 

 apex, then brown with a white line at base. Hind wing dark 

 greyish brown, the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 rufous with the disk brown ; hind wing brown with the costal 

 area rufous. 



ffab. Arf Is. (Wallace), type t in Mus. Oxon. ; Dutch I^. 

 Gdinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley (Pratt), 1 c? , 1 2 ; Bit. N. 

 Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type t $ albotessellata in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker, Babooni. Ea^y. 44 miilim. 



6908. Aiteta subflava. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Capotena suhjlava, Beth.-13aker, No7, ZooL xiii. p. 210 (1906), 



Head and thorax black-brown, the outer half of patagia grey, 

 the prothorax with slight tuft of ochreous white hair, the meta- 

 thorax edged with white ; pectus white; legs white mixed with 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown with 

 slight grey segmental lines, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing violaceous grey suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 with slight brown striae ; the basal area with some diffused white 

 along median nervure ; an oblique diffused dark brown line from 

 costa before middle to middle of inner margin, defined on outer side 

 b}^ diffused white except on inner area ; a similar brown shade from 

 middle of costa to vein 2, a similar shade from costa to below vein 

 4, then bent downwards to inner margin as a slight subterminal 

 line, and a similar shade from costa towards apex to vein 0, the 

 last not defined on outer side by Avhite suffusion. Hind wing 

 faseous black with some whitish just V)eyond the cell and bevond 

 lower angle ; the costal area white to end of cell, then reddish 

 brown ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous black, the 

 costal area fulvous yellow, the terminal area pale reddish brown ; 

 hind wing with the costal area fulvous yellow and with more 

 white beyond and below the cell. 



Hah. Dutch K. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley (Pratt), 1 $ ; 

 Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 1 d", Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 $. 

 Exp. o'2 miilim. Typet in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



6909. Aiteta albicosta. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Ccqwtena albicosta, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 240 (1906). 



Head and thorax dark violaceous brown ; anteunaj with the basal 

 joint white on outer side ; pectus white ; legs white irrorated with 

 brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 white tinged with pinkish. Fore wing violaceous brown with 

 slight dark irroratiou, the costal edge white; an oblique dark line 



