586 NociuiD^. 



outer side, angled inwards in discal fold and to the postmedial band 

 in submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points ; a fine 

 yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with pale purplish rufous from apex to submedian 

 fold towards which it narrows ; cilia rufous, white towards tornus ; 

 the underside with the costal area suffused with rufous and irrorated 

 with white, the terminal area suffused with rufous to submedian 

 fold, a rufous discoidal spot, postmedial line slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, crenulate to vein 5, then obsolescent, a fine yellow line 

 at base of cilia. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker, Ekeikei. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with veins 6, 7 downcurved at base and with slight grooves 

 of ribbed membrane above thetu. 



3455. Borbotana eceicei. 



' Borbotana ekeikei, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 207 (1906). 



S . Head and tegulse fiery red, the latter with a fine pale line 

 near base defined by purplish rufous above ; antenuaD black-brown ; 

 thorax very dark red-brown with a yellowish dorsal fascia; pectus 

 whitish mixed with rufous; legs purplish red-brown; abdomen 

 yellowish white tinged with rufous, the crests and ventral surface 

 rufous. Tore wing with the basal half very dark red-brown, the 

 terminal 'half silvery purplish grey, tinged with rufous beyond 

 the cell, the terminal area suffused with rufous ; a dorsal silvery 

 white antemedial band, its inner edge incurved, its outer excurved 



Fig. 145. — Borbotana eceicei, (^ . \. 



below costa and strongly in submedian interspace ; the dark area 

 ■with an oblique silvery white line on its outer edge, angled out- 

 wards beyond the cell and enclosing a small triangular dark spot 

 beyond a small white discoidal lunule ; a rufous shade on postmedial 

 part of costa with some white points on the costa ; an oblique red- 

 brown fascia from apex to discal fold formed of short diffused 

 streaks, then by finer streaks angled outwards at vein 4, and beloAV 

 submedian fold almost obsolete and bent outw^ards to tornus ; cilia 

 rufous. Hind wmg white, the costal and terminal areas broadly 

 suffused witn pale rufous; cilia rufous; the utidersidc with the 

 costal area rufous irrorated with white, the terminal area suffused 



