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blackish, with slight olivaceous tinge ; some spots or dashes close to base ; a 

 narrow, outwardly oblique band from fovea to cell, here acutely angulated, slightly 

 interrupted on SC ; two broader, nearly straight bands, one proximally, the other 

 distally to the large black discal dot ; a broad snbmarginal band, shading off 



gradually to termen ; fringe dark brown-grey. Hindwing with the three broad 



bands reproduced, the first removed farther from the cell-spot ; in addition with a 

 fine straight subbasal line and a very fine, somewhat interrupted median line 

 crossing the cell-spot. 



Both wings beneath dark blue-grey, with rather weak darker cell-spot and 

 with extremely shadowy traces of the antemedian and postniedian bands. 



Rook Island, July 1913 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mus. Two, rather 

 larger, from New Britain, in the same collection. 



154. Arycanda vinaceostrigata sp. no v. 



<S , 61-65 mm.; ?, 69-71 mm. Head and thorax blackish slate-colour; 

 abdomen orange-rufous, anteriorly with black dorsal spots. 



Foreioing slate-colour or slightly leaden, with fine black strignlation, a large 

 black cell-spot and a number of interrupted black transverse lines or narrow bands 

 (about nine), those at the base much broken up into spots, the next pair almost 

 confluent at costa, diverging, the next short, thick, anterior to the cell-spot, three 

 distally to the cell-spot, also thick, somewhat sinuous ; the subterminal much 

 broken into large spots, containing four orange-red dots or smaller spots, two being 

 between the radials, one between the medians, and one (elongate and oblique) near 

 tornus ; terminal line almost interrupted at the veins, thick between; a broad, deep 

 vinaceons longitudinal streak runs from the cell-spot along the radials to the 

 subterminal, another from near base along the fold to the red subtornal spot, a 

 short one from the subterminal to termen between R 3 and M 1 , and a broad branch 

 from the fold-streak near the base runs off to hindmargin and is continued to 



hindmargin of hindwing ; fringe bisected by a thick blackish line. Hindwing 



with equally large black cell-spot ; a black band proximally thereto, not reaching 

 costa, bounding the pink band distally ; distally to the cell-spot two sinuous 

 black bands, more or less broken np into spots ; subterminal nearly as on 

 fore wing. 



Underside uniform slate-colour, with large black cell-spots. 



Mount Goliath, Ceutral Dutch New Guinea, about 139° E. longitude, 5900- 

 7000 ft., February 1911 (A. S. Meek). 4 <SS, 6 ? ? in coll. Tring Mus. 



155. Arycanda xanthogramma sp. nov. 



c?, 40-45 mm. ; ?, 49 mm. Palpus short. Head, body and legs concolorous 

 with wings, end of anal tuft paler. 



Forewing dark purple-grey, with blackish specklings and strigulations ; a 

 brownish tinge in the region of the folds ; markings blackish, consisting of rows 

 of spots, largest at the costa, in part connected by some dark shading ; two ante- 

 median, well apart at costa, nearer posteriorly, somewhat bent in cell ; obscure 

 spots between them at the folds ; a less markedly spotted median, distally to the 

 cell-mark, angled at the radial fold ; two postmedian, weakly angled at R 1 , then 

 parallel with termen, only the proximal of them marked by conspicuous dark costal 



