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tegulae and fore femora and tibiae fringed with orange ; pectus with 

 some white hair ; abdomen whitish at base, the anal tuft orange. 

 Fore wing with white point in middle of cell ; an oblique white 

 band bc3^ond the cell between veins 7 and 2. Hind wing with broad 

 white medial band from subcostal nervure to inner margin, rounded 

 above, and with its outer edge minutely crenulate ; cilia white at 

 apex. Underside with bluish streaks below base of costa of each 

 wing and antemedial spot in cell of fore wing. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Ft. Moresby (Goldie), type f c^ in Coll. Druce. 

 Ea^j). 48 millim. 



*61. Phalaenoides inconspicua. 



Phalanoides inconspicua, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 49, pi. 15. f. 30 (1896). 



c5* . Black ; palpi with some orange at base and white in front 

 of 2nd joint ; head mixed with white ; the tegulae with some white 

 hair behind ; fore coxae and fringe of femora orange, the hair on 

 mid and hind coxae white ; abdomen with white segmental lines 

 and the ventral surface white, the claspers fringed with brownish 

 hair ; wings slightly shor with blue ; a white band beyond the cell 

 from vein 7 to just below 2, with somewhat waved edges and angled 

 at vein 5. Hind wing with broad medial white band from subcostal 

 nervure to inner margin, rounded above and with minutely crenu- 

 late outer edge. Underside of fore wing with diffused blue streak 

 below costa from base to beyond middle, 



Hab. N. Guinea, Humboldt Bay (DoJierty), typet cT in ColL 

 Druce. Exjy. 50 millim. 



Genus XANTHOSPILOPTERYX. 



Type. 



Xanthospiloptcryx, Wllgrn. GEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. p. 83 (1858). swperba. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 fringed with long hair iu front, the 3rd long and porrect ; frons with truncate 

 conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly simple, 

 distinctly dilated towards extremity ; mid and hind tibiae slightly fringed with 

 rough hair above ; male with the claspers large. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole, 7 from the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well 

 before angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour fulvous orange poggei. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour black. 



a. Hind wing with black discoidal spot onozambica. 



b. Hind wing without discoidal spot, 



a^. Abdomen with orange and black dorsal bands. 

 a-. Abdomen with the bands of ventral surface 

 orange. 

 a''. Hind wing with crimson spot on termen below 



vein 2 



P. Hind wing without crimson spot on termen 



below vein 2 , 



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