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SIX NEW SPECIES OF 11 HO P A LOC E RA , 



Under surface: basal half of forewing .smoky grey with 

 tine pencillings and subcostal dots of white, outer half of wing 

 white with a dark grey fascia at | to g costa, attenuating to a point 

 at \ inner margin, and witli dark grey linely denticulate sub- 

 terminal and submarginal lines diffused with grey ; marginal line 

 line black. Hindwings slaty grey, central third marbled white 

 and grey and blackish, and containing irregular interrupted dark 

 grey marbled fascia from J- costa to | across wing toward anal 

 angle; sub-terminal line waved, denticulate, black, and bordering a 

 row of submarginal grey spots between veins and finely bordered 

 with white ; the spot subtending the tail is most conspicuous, deep 

 black, and bordered with bright red ; marginal line black. This 

 species is at once distinguishable by the beautiful white of the V 

 bespangled with blue and bordered with black, and by the line 

 marbled markings of the undersurface. Brisbane. 



LyC/Ena Miskini, nov. sp. 

 S ? 26—29 m.n . Head brown witli grey hairs, orbital 

 rims white Palpi elongated, blackish brown, with adpressed 

 hairs laterally beneath, Antenna?, black, annulated with white. 

 Thorax black brown, freely covered with purplish biue hair?, and 

 white down underneath. Abdomen blackish brown, sprinkled with 

 light bluish grey hairs, base of each segment with narrow greyish 

 white rim. ForewingS; costa rounded, hind margin in 6 almost 

 straight, in ? rounded toward anal angle; in 6 light purple 

 blue lighter toward costa ; in V blackish grey with central third 

 bright blue, interspersed with black grey scales toward costa and 

 hind margin ; costal band very narrow grey, darker toward apex ; 

 hind marginal line narrow, black ; cilia irrorated white and grey, 

 grey at base. Hindwings with hind margin rounded, tailed near 

 anal angle. Each sex coloured as forewings ; hind marginal 1 and a 

 line black line ; in S small irregular submarginal band of tri- 

 angular grey dots between veins, darker and more conspicuous 

 toward anal angle ; in 9 subterminal grey line, bordering a sub- 

 marginal row of white spots with conspicuous black dot in each 

 centre between veins, suffused toward apical angle ; cilia irrorated 

 grey and white, 



