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cyanece, apud marginem exteriorem saturate pur pur eo- cyanece ; 

 posticce cyanece, basi pallidiores, apud marginem exteriorem 

 subpurpurascentes. 



Male. White. Head above and antennae blue ; the latter with 

 black branches. Disk of the thorax pale blue. Abdomen blue ; 

 under side blackish, except the white hind borders of the segments. 

 Fore wings pale blue along the costa, deep purplish blue along the 

 exterior border. Hind wings bright blue, paler towards the base, 

 with a purple tinge towards the exterior border. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



New Guinea. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus TRYPANOPHORA. 



Trypanophora semihyalina. 



semihyalina, Cat. Lep. Het. pt, 2, 434, mas. — Syntoniis humeralis, 

 Cat. Lep. Het. pt. 7, 1593, fcem. 



Trypanophora akgyrospila. 



Fcem. Nigro-viridis ; caput antice argenteum ; antenna nigro- 

 cyanece, argenteo vittatce ; thorax maculis duabus argenteis, 

 scutello luteo ; pectus plagis duabus luteis duabusque albis ; 

 abdomen fasciis quinque luteis; alee amplce, vitrece ; anticce 

 mar yine, fascia, macula strigoque nigro-purpureis ; posticce 

 nigro.purpureo marginata, plaga basali albida, plaga costali 

 jlava. 



Female. Blackish green. Head silvery white in front. An- 

 tenna? blackish blue, with a silvery white stripe beyond the middle. 

 Thorax with a silvery white spot on each shoulder. Scutellum 

 hueous. Pectus with two patches on each side, the fore oneluteous, 

 the hind one whitish. Abdomen with five luteous bands ; fourth 

 and fifth bands broader than the other three. Wings long, broad, 

 vitreous, colourless. Fore wings purple-black at the base, along 

 the exterior border and along the interior border, more broadly 

 purple-black at the tips ; a purple-black band across the base of the 

 di*cal areolet, much dilated hindward ; a purple-black transverse 

 spot at the tip of the areolet ; a purpie-black streak extending from 

 the border between the fourth inferior vein and the submeclian vein. 

 Hind wings bordered with purple-black ; a whitish patch near the 



