288 AECTIAD^. 



hind legs banded with white ; anal tuft whitish. Fore wing black? 

 a large bright yellow patch from before midille to well beyond 

 middle, extending to near costa, its outer edge angled at vein 6 and 

 in submedian fold: a large subterminal cupreous-red patch from 

 below costa to vein 1 expanding towards costa. Hind wing black,, 

 with large bright yellow medial patch, its inner edge running 

 obliquely from costa near base to vein 1, its outer edge obtusely 

 angled at vein 4. 



Hah. Mysol {Wallace), 1 $ type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



The colour of the tegulee at once settles that the specimen from 

 Ceram in B. M. is Walker's type of calida. 



*605. Caprima ? caerulescens. 



Scaptesyle ccsndescens, But,l, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1889, p. 390, pi. xii. f. 3 ;. 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black shot with brilliant blue ; 

 fore tibias and tarsi mostly white in front; extremity of hind 

 femora white; abdomen with the anal segment dotted and tipped 

 with white below. Fore wing with the basal area black shot 

 with brilliant blue ; a medial yellow band, narrowing to costa, its 

 outer edge being oblique fr< m costa to lower angle of cell ; the 

 terminal area black, with large orange-red patch leaving rather 

 narrow black margins. Hind wing black, with large triangular medial . 

 yellow patch from costa to above tornus. 



Hah. Solomon Is., Guadalcanar ( IFoocZ/bri^). Exp. 30 millim.. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with veins 10, 1 1 widely separated in both sexes. 



A. Fore wing with white patcbes and bands. 



a. Hind wing orange, witb terminal brown band procrena. 



b. Hind wing uniform red-brown catarrhoa. 



B. Fore wing without wbitt niarkings. 



a. Fore wing with the bjisal Lalf yellowish, the terminal 



half fuscous bipars. 



b Fore wing reddish brown, witb obscure medial fi'scous 



band rotunda. 



606. Caprima procrera, (Plate XXVI. fig. 4.) 



Chiriphe procrena, Meyr. V. Liun. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 733 (1886) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 348. 



S. Head white; palpi, fions, and antennae blackish; thorax 

 black -brown, with white pate Lcs on pro- and metathorax ; legs brown 

 and yellowish ; abdomen fu^(•oll8, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing dark reddish brown; a wldte basal patch with a dark point 

 on it from subcostal neivuie to vein 1, conjoined loan oblique 

 antemedial striga from costa and an oblique band from middle of 

 costa with dentate outer tcge ; a very irregular oblique white 



