606 isrocTuiD,^:. 



conical cliocolato-brown patch at middle of suljraedian interspace 

 Avith purplish grey beyond it, before the very indistinct obli(iue dark 

 postmedial line ; the terminal area chocolate-brown with some 

 greyish suifusion towards termen and traces of a curved dark 

 subterminal lino ; cilia pale brownish. Hind wing white tinged 

 with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with dark brown from 

 apex to submedian fold ; cilia pale brownish, white at tips. 



Hah. Queens LAND, Peak Downs, 1 6 type, Townsville (Dodd), 

 1 d , 1 $ . Exjy. 24-26 millim. 



7026. Vestermannia gloriosa, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 32.) 



Head white ; palpi black behind, the extremity of 2nd joint and 

 the 3rd joint irrorated with black; frons with black bars above 

 and between antennae, which are brownish except at base; thorax 

 white tinged with rufous and with some fuscous at tips of tegulse 

 and on pro- and metathorax ; pectus and legs white, the latter 

 irrorated with fuscous, the fore femora and tibiae fuscous on inner 

 side ; abdomen white tinged with fuscous dorsally and at extremity, 

 the crests pale rufous, the crest on 3rd segment blackish. Fore 

 wing cupreous brown with a purplish tinge, suffused with silvery 

 white to the postmedial line, the area below vein 1 pale rufous 

 slightly irrorated with black to the postmedial line ; a large elliptical 

 patch of the ground-colour defined by white in and beyond end of 

 cell, bisected by a fine oblique white discoidal line and only separated 

 from a similar but more rounded patch below the cell by a white 

 streak on median nervure ; postmedial line white, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, excurved to veiu 5, then inwardly oblique, angled 

 outwards at submedian fold, then incurved, some purplish white 

 suffusion bej-ond it from costa to vein 4 with slight triangular 

 marks defined by white on its outer edge from below costa to vein 

 5 ; the submedian fold and vein 1 slightly streaked with white 

 from the postmedial line to the faint curved subterminal line; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, the veins 

 towards termen slightly streaked with brown ; a cupreous brown 

 terminal band narrowing below vein 2 ; cilia white at tips. 



Hab. Br. N". Guinea, Babooni (Pratt), 1 d" , Ekeikci (Pratt), 

 4 c^ , 1 $ type. E.V2J. 42-46 millim. 



7027. Vestermannia siiperba. 



Westermannia siqxrba, Hiibn. Zlitr. Ex. Sehmett. p. 23. ff. 323, 324 (1823) ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 80, pi. 154. ff. 1, 1 ft ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 359. 

 Flusiodes westermannii, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 386 (1852). 



Head pure white ; palpi black behind ; antennae brownish except 

 towards base ; thorax creamy white ; fore femora and tibiae brown 

 on inner side, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white, 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish white with the 

 area below vein 1 creamy white to the postmedial line, the terminal 



