DTPTERYGI.V. bO 



black fascia from it to ternien above the whitish patch and some 

 white points on costa ; faint traces of a subterminal line defined on 

 inner side by slight dentate black marks on the dark area and on 

 outer by slight dark streaks in the interspaces, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 slight black lunules ; cilia fuscous on apical half, white and brown 

 towards tornus. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas 

 fuscous, the latter very broad towards apex, narrowing somewhat 

 to tornus ; cilia brown with a slight pale line at base to vein 2, 

 then mostly white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hub. Br. New Guinea, Babooni {Pratt), 2 cj' , 1 $ , Mt. Kebea 

 (Pratt), 1 2 ■ J^a;p. 46 millim. Type t in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



2801. Dipterygia babooni. (Plate CIX. fig. 12.) 



Bipterygia babooni, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 197 (190()). 



Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown and fuscous, frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulae with black medial line ; patagia 

 with black streak near upper edge ; pectus and femora with purplish 

 hair in male, the tufts from thorax and mid femora blackish ; legs 

 reddish brown and white, the tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen 

 fuscous black, more or less mixed with brown in female, the dorsal 

 crests brown, the ventral surface purplish red with the extremity 

 black in male, in female whitish irrorated with rufous and black. 

 Fore wing whitish more or less completely suffused with rufous, 

 the veins with fine dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by 

 two slight oblique strise from costa ; an oblique black streak above 

 inner margin before the antemedial line, which is very indistinctly 

 double, dentate, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin almost to postmedial line ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black at extremity; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 blackish, the former round, the latter with some white on outer 

 edge ; traces of a diffused medial line towards costa ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 5, then strongly incurved ; 

 a downcurved black-brown fascia from it to termen above vein 3, 

 expanding towards the postmedial line, some white points on costa 

 towards apex; traces of a pale subterminal line deBned on inner 

 side near middle by slight dentate dark marks, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, then incurved; a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected 

 with whitish. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas 

 suffused with fuscous, the former very broadly toward apex, 

 narrowing somewhat to tornus ; cilia fuscous with a slight pale 

 line at base, whitish towards tornus ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous 

 to submedian fold. 



Bab. Br. New Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 c? , 3 $ , Ekeikei 

 (Pratt), 2 2 . Ex23. 42-48 miliim. Type t in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. : ; 



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