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40. Comibaena mariae syndyas subsp. nov. 



<? ? . Sexes alike, the tornal blotch of forewing and apical blotch of hindwing 

 chocolate, even more uniform than in the female of mariae mariae T. P. Luc, from 

 Queensland, recalling the darkest aberrations of integranota Hmpsn. The tornal 

 blotch of forewing is generally rather smaller, only just crossing M 1 , whereas in 

 m. mariae it usually reaches R 3 . Hindwing with discal dot less sharp, almost or 

 entirely obsolete beneath. 



New Guinea : Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains ; near Oetakwa River, 

 Snow Mountains (including the type, coll. Tring Mus.); Mount Goliath; Kumusi 

 River, N.E. British New Guinea ; Goodenongh Island. 



As ab. (?) aporia nov. I describe a <$ form in which the centre of the blotches 

 is paler, their border dark, nearly as in m. mariae, from which, however, the new 

 form differs in having the blotch of forewing larger, reaching R 3 , the dark part of 

 both blotches broader. Ninay Valley, 3500 ft., November 1908 — January 1909, 

 4 S <S in coll. Tring Mns. taken together with 4 typical <$ S of m. si/ndgas. Possibly 

 a separate species, but I can find no structural difference, and the colour variation is 

 only such as is well known in integranota Hmpsn. 



41. Chrysochloroma meeki malthaca subsp. nov. 



S, 36-38 mm. Considerably smaller than meeki meeki, from the Trobriand 

 Islands, and of a lighter, more yellowish shade, approaching apple-green. 



St. Aiguan, Louisiades, December 1897 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



The ? of m. malthaca has a whitish underside, as in megaloptera Lower, and 

 indeed altogether resembles that species except in the more crenulate margin and 

 in the much more bent line of the hindwina;. The ? of m. meeki has not been 

 received. 



42. Gelasma subannulata spec. nov. 



<S, 38 mm. Face dull dark reddish. Palpus one-and-a-quarter times diameter 

 of eye, with third joint very short ; above dull dark reddish, mixed with black ; 

 beneath whitish. Antennal pectinations rather long, continuing to about the 

 thirty-seventh joint. Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Hindtibia 

 strongly dilated, the spurs very short. 



Forewing with termen slightly straighter and more oblique than in glaucaria 

 "Walk. ; SC 1 free ; very pale, glossy yellowish green (perhaps a little discoloured 

 in relaxing), the costal edge narrowly yellow, with a few red-brown specks ; lines 

 marked by slightly deeper green shading and by having their reverse edges 

 whitish, as in glaucaria ; antemedian 4 mm. from base, dentate inward on M and 

 SM 2 , lnnulate outward between and in cell ; cell-mark large, slightly pale-centred, 

 suggesting a long, narrow ocellus ; postmedian line lunulate-dentate, 4-5 mm. from 

 termen, nearly parallel therewith, slightly receding at costa and with a deeper 

 Innule between M and SM 2 ; terminal line very slender, interrupted, blackish 



fuscous ; fringe with small but sharp blackish dots opposite the veins. 



Hindwing rather elongate at abdominal margin, rather squared at apex, tail at 

 R 3 strong (shape of section Thalerura, though not very extreme) ; antemedian line 

 wanting, postmedian as on forewing, terminal slightly stronger ; cell-spot elongate, 

 but not ocellated ; fringe as on forewingr. 



