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CHRYSOCRASPEDA. By L. B. Prout. 
aurimargo. 
rosulenta. 
flavimacu- 
laia. 
leucotoca. 
inundata. 
spudaea. 
auristigma. 
phaedra. 
ubangulala. 
remutans. 
analiplaga. 
three retain approximately the cruoraria- scheme in the distal or apical half of the forewing) have the proximal 
half of both wings much like that of porphyrogonia , the distal part of the hindwing red mottled with the dark 
purple and with the usual irregular yellow border. 
Ch. aurimargo Warr. ( praec. form . ?) (17 e). Wings more elongate than in subangulata, darker and with 
some red admixture on the yellow border; markings faint, the postmedian line more curved than in subangulata. 
N. Queensland: Cedar Bay (type) and Kuranda, known in both sexes. — ab. rosulenta nov. (? sp. div.) differs 
chiefly from aurimargo in its bright rose-colour (nearly “bellebore-red" of Ridgway), though the wings may 
be slightly less angled and the yellow tornal spot of the forewing is a little enlarged (formed as in porphyrogonia). 
Kuranda. 3 <$<$. — ab. flavimaculata nov. has the same ground-colour and borders, but larger yellow central 
spots line it with porphyrogonia. Kuranda, 1 <$. 
Ch. leucotoca sp. n. (17 f). Forewing with tornus more rounded off. hindwing with termen strongly 
produced, but the angle on the middle more rounded off, especially in the $. ? slightly more purplish than 
rosulenta and with some dark grey suffusions; the yellow patch at the tornus of the forewing enlarged, somewhat 
recalling araliphaga ; hindwing, as in the <d, with conspicuous oval white cell-dot. with the dark suffusions 
much more extended, occupying the greater part of both wings proximally, the yellow borders, especially in 
the type, much extended. Kuranda, 2 pairs in the British Museum. This is the group which, as remarked above, 
“shows little sign of linking up” with cruoria and aurimargo. 
Ch. inundata Warr. (17 e). Recognizable by the shape, the oblique pale-yellow band of the forewing 
(constricted or occasionally interrupted about the 2nd median) and the narrow, sinuate yellow border; cell-dot 
of hindwing white, oval. British New Guinea and the Snow Mountains, the type from Mailu, British New 
Guinea. Turner records 1 $ from Kuranda, with a bro a d , sharply defined yellow band from subcostal to tor¬ 
nus, but afterwards sinks it to cruoraria , so that it may have been a striking aberration of that species or rather 
(by shape) of leucotoca. — ab. (? subsp.) spudaea nov. Oval white cellspot of hindwing much larger; terminal 
yellow, particularly of forewing, also increased, the very slight swelling between the radials on that wing becoming 
a prong over 1 mm in length an additional though shorter swelling developed between the medians. Ninay 
Valley. Central Arfak Mountains, type $ in the Tring Museum. 
Ch. auristigma Prout (17 f). Similar to croceomarginata and phrureta except in shape; hindwing elongate, 
almost rectangularly bent in the middle; further distinguished by the yellow cell-spot of the forewing. Snow 
Mountains (type), Vulcan Island and New Britain, perhaps representing two or three different races. We figure 
the Vulcan I. which is lighter than the type vinaccous rather than dull dark purple, the distinction probably 
sexual or individual rather than racial. 
Ch. phaedra Prout , from Sudest Island, may possibly be or further race of auristigma. but the face is 
purple (in auristigma whitish, narrowly red above), the 2nd radial of the forewing arises nearer to the 1st, the 
ground-colour is brighter, the yellow borders broad, the hindwing appreciably less angled, the prominence 
embracing both the 3rd radial and the 1st median. The yellow cell-spot is sometimes reduced in size. Here 
may also be mentioned the problematical charites Oberth. (see Supp.-Vol. 4. p. 30, pi. 4 d). 
Ch. subangulata Warr. Rather similar to phrureta , particularly on the forewing, but lighter, more violet, 
the black cell-dot of the forewing sharper, the postmedian line very slender, r u n n i n g to the to r n u s; 
hindwing angled (though not strongly) at 3rd radial, its cell-dot white. Khasis. A $ from E. Pesu, which prob¬ 
ably belongs to it, has the margins more gibbous in the middle, the slight yellow border of the forewing expanding 
between 2nd median and tornus. A small £ from Mount Gede is somewhat intermediate between these two 
and may represent a race. 
Ch. remutans sp. n. $, 19—20 mm. Extremely like an undersized $ of Pt. togata F., but a true Chry- 
socraspeda. Face paler. Wings slightly more angular still; similarly vinaccous or slightly more reddish; vertex 
concolorous, not white; yellow borders a trifle narrower and paler, tapering rather more gradually to the 
central projection of the ground-colour and its crimson edging; no trace of a line; cell-dots weak. S. E. Borneo, 
the type, misidentified by Meyrick (1897) as permutans Pimps. ; W. Borneo, 85 miles above Pontianak (Simons 
& Meligan), a second from the Oberthur collection. 
Ch. analiplaga Warr. (17 f) has the hindwing gibbous, but scarcely angled; larger and more vinaceous 
than subangulata type, postmedian line wanting, the expansion of the yellow border at the tornus larger than 
in the $ which I referred to subangulata , an additional (slight) expansion between the radials of the forewing, 
also on the anterior half of the hindwing; white cell-dot of hindwing more conspicuous. Biagi, British New 
Guinea, 1 $. 
