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margin, conjoined at base; a slight streak in submedian fold to 

 middle of wing ; an oblique postmedial patch from below costa to 

 vein 3. Hind wing black, with large orange patch in, beyond, and 

 below the end of cell extending down to submedian fold. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Fergusson I. {Meek), 2 S • Exp- 28 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Druce. 



Genus HELIOSIA, nov. 



Type, H.jucunda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pilpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennte of male ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with 

 vein 2 from middle of cell, curved at base ; 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident; 5 from 

 well above angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing orange-red, with broad fuscous antemedial 



and subterminal bands meeting on inner margin rufa. 



B. Fore wing orange, with the base and two bands black. . . jiKimda. 



G. Fore wing ochreous, with discoidal black point monosticta (5)' 



D. Fore wing pale bi'own, with apical yellow baud croco'pera (2). 



*576. Heliosia rufa. (Plate XXVI. fig. 1.) 



Miltochnsfa rufa, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 82 (1890) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 312. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange, thorax slightly tinged 

 with scarlet ; fore tibiae with fuscous streak. Fore wing orange- 

 red; an oblique fuscous antemedial band with the veins crossing it 

 orange, widening from below costa to inner margin, where it joins 

 the broad fuscous band on terminal area which does not reach the 

 costa, its inner edge angled in discal and submedian folds, its outer 

 edge irregular with two black subapical points on it and one at 

 middle, then extending almost to termen. Hind wing orange 

 slightly tinged with red ; a broad terminal fuscous band. 



Hah. C. China, Chang-yang, type f in Coll. Leech. Exi). 24 

 millim. 



577. Heliosia jucunda. 



Pallene jucunda, Wlk. ii. 543 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 295. 

 Tuspitis transitana, Wlk. xxviii. 430 (1863). 



Orange-yellow ; palpi blackish at sides ; the ends of patagia and 



meso- and metathorax black ; 

 abdomen dorsally black ex- 

 cept at extremity. Fore 

 wing with the base black ; 

 an oblique medial band 

 slightly angled below the cell, 

 L^ then sinuous ; a postmedial 



band somewhat sinuous and 

 Fig. 193. — Heliosia ^immda, (^ . f. angled inwards in discal fold. 



Hind wing with terminal 

 iDlackish band, leaving the apex and cilia orange. 



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