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vinaceous. The Queensland form (Cedar Bay, Geraldton, Kuranda) only differs in having the spot in the end 
of the cell broader (both wings) and the posterior spot of the hindwing inclined to become produced outward 
as in papuana, with which it occasionally intergrades. So too the only specimen (a 9 ) which I know from Fer- 
gusson Island. Single specimens from Obi, Buru, Ceram and the Kei Islands (one from each source) do not 
admit of exact placing at present; perhaps nearest to papuana. — papuana subsp. nov. is larger and lighter, papuana. 
the green markings relatively larger, deeply coloured and standing out strongly; the posterior spot of the hind¬ 
wing shows a pronounced tendency to run outward strongly at and behind the fold, so as to recall divisaria 
Walk. Distributed in New Guinea, the type from the Hydrographer Mountains, 2500 feet. Also Goodenough 
Island, Id 1 .- kirwiriensis subsp. nov. About as large, and at least as pale as papuana, but with nearly the macu- kirwiriensis. 
lation of medium parvimacula ; subterminal green spots of forewing rather small. New r Ireland. $ much like 
a larger parvimacula. — erythroconia subsp. nov. Also fairly large (39—41 mm) and with the <3 pale, but having erythroconia. 
a slightly more uniform tinge of delicate violet and the irroration copious, largely dull red instead of blackish: 
tornal clouds rather strong; green spots rather pale, the subbasal wanting, those at the discocellulars about as 
in privativa , but with a rather more conspicuous red cell-streak between them, those at the fold present, generally 
a little larger than in average parvimacula. $9 very deeply purple-coloured, the colour and arrangement of 
the green spots about as in the <$<$, the median shade (outside the cell) rather broader and brighter red than in 
most other $9- Admiralty Islands. — privativa Prout (20 e) is the culmination of the series, similar to erythroconia privativa. 
but without the red irroration and with the green spots behind the 2 discocellular ones extremely small or (oftener) 
wanting. Rook Island (loc. typ.) and New' Britain. 
A. subaequalis Prout (20 e). As small as agrata , paler than parvimacula, the median green markings subaequalis. 
at least as broad as in the most heavily marked examples thereof, on the forewing even more strongly confluent. 
Underside almost as in a. vicina, the subterminal band of forewing at least as broad as in the most heavily 
marked. Solomons: Ysabel, only the type $ known. 
A. pirimacula Prout (20 f). Smaller than the following, antennal ciliation of the $ longer (almost as in pirimacula. 
agrata), distal margins scarcely so deeply crenulate, basal patch of forewing more oblique-edged, central patch 
differently shaped, etc. New Guinea, the type from Fak-Fak. 
A. divisaria Walk. (20 f). Varies little and has already been differentiated from its allies. Antennal divisaria. 
ciliation of the $ about as long as the diameter of the shaft. India (type from Canara) and Malaysia, reaching 
Bali. Recently received also from W. Celebes. —ab. loc. (an sp. div.'l) virentiplaga nov. (20 f). Shape about as virentiplaga. 
in perturbata ; green markings less dark than in the other forms, median band almost solid, only with a very 
slender pale mark on the discocellulars, its distal element less produced, on the forewing not appreciably 
bilobecl; the fine brown line outside it, which in divisaria is very generally marked on the hindwing with some 
blackish vein-dots, generally more unicolorous. Hindwing beneath in its proximal half with much less of the 
dusky suffusion which characterises divisaria , the faint indications of the green band of upperside separated 
from the broad subterminal band by a white band which broadens between the two folds. Ceylon: Kandy, 
5 from the Mackwood collection (now in the British Museum); also 3 without exact locality. But that the 
few Ceylon 9$ yet known are intermediate, I would unhesitatingly call this a species. Typical $ divisaria are 
known from Maskeliya and “North-Central Province” (Alston). - perturbata Prout, from Formosa, is rather perturbata. 
smaller (32—34 mm), termen generally slightly less strongly crenulate, cell of forewing slightly shorter, the 
green patch outside the discocellulars reduced, the outer line perhaps less sinuous, the subapical spots more 
separated by the veins. 
33. Genus; Oasybela Turn. 
Face not hairy. Palpus moderate, with long, stiff, projecting hairs. Antenna of E serrate-fasciculate. 
Breast and coxae hairy. Hindtibia of with 2 spurs (the hitherto undescribed 9 will certainly have 4). Areole 
simple, 1st subcostal stalked beyond it. Hindwing with 2nd radial arising rather near 1st. One, or perhaps 
two species; exclusively Australian. It apparently differs from the Holarctias of the northern hemisphere (Vol. 4. 
p. 85) only in the position of the 2nd radial of the hindwing and small details of shape and facies. 
D. achroa Lower (20 f). Antennal serrations strong (% diameter of shaft), ciliation long (about I k), acliroa. 
Forewing rather elongate, rounded towards apex, termen bowed, oblique; hindwing with termen strongly 
rounded; brown-whitish with dense dark irroration, cell-dots present, median and postmedian lines more or less 
dentate, thickened at costa of forewing, which has also a twice angled antemedian; a dark subterminal suffusion 
and black terminal dots. Tasmania, in February. 
D. (?) argillina Lower (described as Emmiltis). Palpus 'long , densely hairy beneath. Hindtibia of $ argillina. 
presumably with terminal spurs (so in Emmiltis $), Forewing ochreous-fuscous, with ochreous basal patch, a 
