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*2881. Trachea mniochlora. (Plate CXI. fig. 3.) 



Hadena mniochlora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Sou. 1889, p. 4G9. 

 Eupiexia viridacea, Betli. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 195 (1906). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; palpi dark brown 

 at sides ; tibiae and tarsi slightlj^ banded with dark brown. Fore 

 wing golden green, the antemedial area except towards costa and 

 the medial area, except just beyond antemedial line, suffused with 

 red- brown ; subbasal line silvery white, oblique from costa, bent 

 outwards in cell, then oblique to vein 1 and strongly angled outwards 

 above inner margin, defined on each side by black marks below costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with silvery 

 white, the outer line stronger and black in submedian interspace 

 and above inner margin, oblique from below costa to submedian 

 fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform represented by a slight white bar defined on each side by 

 black at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with slight white 

 annuli defined by black, open below, the former conical, the latter 

 triangular, some black suffusion between and beyond them; a 

 blackish spot on middle of costa ; postmedial line double, filled in 

 with white, the inner line black, the outer brown, strong bent 

 outwards below costa, then very slightly waved, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, below vein 4 curved inwards to vein 2 where it is 

 angled inwards, then angled outwards on vein 1, some whitish points 

 beyond it on, costa : subterminalline white defined on inner side by 

 pale olive-bi-own with short black streaks on the veins, angled acutely 

 to termen on the veins, the wedge-shaped marks beyond it filled in 

 with dark brown except at apex and tornus ; a terminal series of 

 slight black lunules defined on inner side by white; cilia yellow 

 tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale yellowish rufous with some 

 darker suffusion on disk before the very indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line ; the underside paler, with brown discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Be. N. Guinea (Sayer), type t c? in Coll. Meyrick, Dinawa 

 (Pratt), type t viridacea in Coll. Bethune-Baker, Ekeikei, Mt. Kebea. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



*28S2. Trachea leucopera, n. sp. (Plate CXI. fig. 4.) 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish rufous. Fore wing 

 golden green suffused with rufous ; subbasal line whitish, oblique, 

 dentate, from costa to vein 1, defined by black on inner side at 

 costa on both sides below the cell, and with some black below it on 

 inner margin ; antemedial line whitish, oblique, slightly sinuous, 

 defined by black on. outer side at costa and in cell and submedian 

 interspace ; claviform represented by a curved black and white bar 

 at its extremity with some black irroration beyond it ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former conical, 

 open below, the latter formed by two oblique bars, the inner touching 



