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rather more mixed with reddish. Submarginal band of forewing beneath inter- 

 rupted, black, placed on a very slightly reddish-flushed area; of hindwing wholly 

 black. 



S. Celebes, August— September 1891 (W. Doherty), 4 $ <$ in coll. Tring Mus. 



Perhaps a distinct species; subtepens Walk., with different $ hindtibia, 

 occupies the intervening area. 



18. Pingasa aravensis sp. nov. 



c?, 53 mm.; ?, 58 mm. Face velvety black in upper half, cream-colour in 

 lower. Palpus with third joint elongate (in c? about 1 mm. — one-third of palpus ; 

 in ? about P5 mm. — nearly one-half of palpus) ; cream-colour, the first and second 

 joints with dark mark along outer side. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen cream- 

 colour to whitish. Femora and tibiae in <J yellower ; tarsi fuscous. 



Foreiuing white, with a faint pinkish tinge; the irroration rather sparse, 

 mostly grey or black, slightly interspersed with ochreons ; lines black ; antemediau 

 fine, the angles in cell and submedian area strong, especially the latter; cell-mark 

 not very intense ; postmediau line stroug, at least posteriorly, from a costal spot 

 9 or 10 mm. before apex, about parallel with termen in posterior half, rather less 

 oblique in anterior, the teeth strong, but less open (especially in anterior part) 

 than in lariaria Walk. ; the posterior half with marked luuules inwards ; distal 

 area mixed rufous and grey (intermediate between lariaria Walk, and nobilis 

 Prout), interrupted by the thick, rather regularly dentate, subterminal line, slight 

 white terminal spots at apex and a stroug white spot from R 3 to the fold behind 



M 1 . Hindwing with the crests strong ; antemediau line and cell-spot wanting ; 



a reddish spriukling about R 3 and M 1 and at abdominal margin, between the crests 

 and postmediau line ; distal area as in forewing. 



Both wings beneath orange-ochraceous proximally to the cell-spot, rather 

 darker orange at abdominal margin of hindwing ; both wings with black cell-spot, 

 that of forewing large ; the succeeding area white ; a broad black marginal band, 

 leaving free on the forewing a white patch from apex to R 1 and a second from 

 radial fold or R 3 to behind M 1 , ou the hindwing an elongate white patch from 

 radial fold to M 2 , a small one at fold, very narrowly connected with the preceding 

 along termen, and very small, very narrowly connected spots behind SC 2 and 

 behind R 1 ; fringes white, that of forewing slightly fuscous-marked between the 

 radial s. 



Arawa, Bougainville, December 1907 (A. S. Meek)- A pair in coll. Tring 

 Museum. 



The first known Pingasa, from the Solomons. Palpus of <$ with longer third 

 joint than in lariaria Walk, and nobilis Prout. 



19. Pingasa pseudoterpnaria gracilis subsp. nov. 



Pingasa gracilis Warr. MS. 



Both wiugs above less strongly dusted with dark olive-brown than in pseudo- 

 terpnaria pseudoterpnaria Guen. from Japan and pseudoterpnaria tephrosiaria 

 Guen. from N. W. India, thus superficially resembling chlora Oram., from which it 

 is distinguishable by the shorter third joint of the palpus in the S , the shape of the 

 antemedian and postmedian lines in the submedian area, the longer teeth of the 



