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Posterior wings : From the base to the distal end of 

 cell with 3-/|.th of the submedian, and one half of the 

 costal and subcostal areas, very dark brown ; the disc is 

 ochraceous white, shaded towards the outer margin more 

 and more deeply with bluish grey ; midway of this large 

 area is a transverse curved band of large orbicular black 

 spots, 7 in number — the 7th or submedian united with 

 the general dark area, and distorted in shape. Below the 

 orbicles are internervular lunate shades of yellow beneath 

 the blue grey — the whole subdued by a clouding of grey 

 atoms ; a moderately broad marginal band of black 

 lunations ; a small white spot at the distal end of the 

 cell ; the fringe lunules white and scaled, moth-like. The 

 abdominal fringe fairly long and dark. 



Undersurface as above, except that the white and 

 yellow parts are pure — the yellow being aureolin in colour 

 and the precostal cell white. All the discal veins are 

 very delicate. 



Head : Antennae black, moderately stout ; eyes rufous 

 brown, underlined with white ; thorax above densely 

 black with a multitude of long, mothlike hairs (viewed 

 obliquely) ; with the usual pectoral red marks ; the legs 

 stout and prominent ; abdomen yellow, broadly banded 

 with black at each articulation — occupying more space 

 than the yellow ; the black and yellow consist of long 

 hair-like scales extending even outside the outline of the 

 body, giving it much the appearance of the abdomen of 

 a Sphinge moth or that of an Anthercea. When the 

 butterfly is examined in the right position, it is found to be 



partly covered with long hairs, as may be seen by my 

 diagram on the supplementary plate L. 



Length of abdomen or antennas 35 ; of thorax with the 

 head23inms. Anterior wing: length of costaggmms. ; 

 of exterior margin 70 mms. ; of interior margin 45 mms. ; 

 Posterior wing : greatest length 74 mms. ; width 45 mms. 



Length of 

 Legs 



1st pair: femur, g; tibia, 10; tarsi, 11 mms. 

 2nd ,, ,, 14 ; ,, 15 ; ,, 15 

 3rd ,, ,, 14; „ 12; ,, 17 ,, 



Habitat : Owgarra north of the head of the Aroa River, 

 British New Guinea. Discovered by Mr. Meek, to whom 

 we are indebted for the sending of a multitude of the most 

 beautiful species of butterflies and moths that have ever 

 enriched our collections. New Guinea and its adjacent 

 islands certainly furnish many of the most wonderful and 

 beautiful insects and birds in the world. Among the 

 lepidoptera we may mention those of the lovely genus 

 Delias of the Pieridcz ; and a large number of Bombyces, 

 Geometridse and Pyralidse. Indeed N. Guinea is a won- 

 derland in its productions. I am indebted to my friends 

 Mr. H. Grose-Smith and Col. Rimington for the pleasure 

 of figuring and describing this wonderful form ; but 

 I at first was able to closely examine several fine examples, 

 with the types, by the kindness of its first possessor, the 

 Hon. W. Rothschild, who discovered a ? in a lot of 

 common or well-known things in papers, just at the 

 moment when he had almost abandoned the hope of 

 finding anything that was new to him. Soon after this 

 he received from Mr. Meek a number of examples of both 

 sexes, to the delight of himself and all Naturalists. 



