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CAPRIMIMA. By Dr. M. Deaijdt. 
mendax. 
pseudogeli- 
' da. 
obliqua. 
aenea. 
bigiittafa. 
redact a. 
occidentalis. 
bipuncta. 
ger m ana. 
coeruleomar 
ginata. 
what narrower towards the proximal margin. Head and thorax bluish-black, collar white. Abdomen black. 
Widely distributed from Mysol, Waigeu, Aru, New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, Entrecasteaux Archipelago. 
Specimens from the Humboldt Bay were denominated subsp. mendax by Rothschild; they are distinguished 
by the collar being bluish-black, not white, and the white area of the hindwing growing posteriorly broader. 
The species strikingly copies the Zygaenid Caprima getida 1 Ykr. (7 h). 
C. pseudogelida Bothsch. looks very much like the preceding, but it is at once discernible by much 
shorter and rounder wings; the collar is steel-blue with only a small white dot; the white band of the forewing 
extends as far as above the subcostal, and the white band of the hindwing is narrower and does not extend 
to the inner-marginal fold. Length of forewings: 14 x / 2 mm. From Biagi, Mambare River in British New Guinea 
(April). 
C. obliqua Bothsch. Body black, anal tuft white; base of shoulder-covers, forehips and parts of legs 
chalky white. The forewings are black; 2 mm behind the base commences a white band of about 4 mm width, 
extending from the costal margin to the proximal margin — the costal margin itself being also white ■— and 
being outside somewhat indented; in the distal half of the wing there is a very large copper-red spot. On the 
hindwing the black base is continued along the proximal margin and round the distal margin; the rest is white, 
at the costal margin as broad as the white band of the forewing. Length of forewings: 12 mm. Aroa River 
in British New Guinea. 
C. aenea Bothsch. Head and upper side of the thorax blackish metallic green, the abdomen blackish- 
blue, of a faint lustre; the legs somewhat whiter than in metallica, the abdominal tuft white. Forewing above 
like the thorax, 3 white spots, the 1st transverse, somewhat nearer at the base than the 2nd median vein, 
reaching neither to the costal nor proximal margin, the 2nd rounder, at the upper cell-angle, the 3rd before 
the apex, small, almost parted by the first radial; between the 2nd and 3rd white spot an orange-purple spot. 
Hindwing bluish-black, from the costal margin to the 2nd submedian vein a large white spot, oblique, the black 
distal area more than twice as broad at the costal margin than at the submedian, but here broader than the 
abdominal area. Beneath bluish-black, without a metallic lustre, the white spots somewhat larger than above, 
particularly the subbasal spot of the forewing. Length of forewings: 10 mm. New Guinea. 
C. biguffata Bothsch. $. Black, pronotum anteriorly narrowly bordered with white; legs white, partly 
brown; anal tuft reddish-white. Forewing black, somewhat shorter than in albicollis ; behind the base there 
is a white spot extending from the proximal margin not so far as the costa; in the marginal area a large, copper- 
red spot, on the inside of it a subcostal round white spot, and on the outside of it a smaller, strangulated spot. 
Hindwing with a white median band not reaching the proximal margin. In the $ the wings are still shorter. 
Length of forewings: II to 14 mm. Distributed in New Guinea (Milne Bay, Kapaur, Woodlark). — subsp. reducta 
Bothsch. from New 1 Hanover has narrower white bands, that on the hindwing is at the same time shorter, the 
subapical white spot on the forewing is larger; on the hindwing beneath the white band is much broader 
than above. 
C. occidentalis Bothsch. is very much like biguttata, with the following distinctions: antennae distally 
scaled white, forehips black. The proximal margin of the forewing is longer, therefore the distal margin less 
oblique; the white band is costally narrower and reaches almost the costal margin; on the inside of the coppery 
spot the white spot is absent. The white spot on the hindwing extends to the base and proximal margin. Length 
of forewings: 10 to 12 mm. From Nias and Engano (September). 
C. bipuncta Bothsch. Head and thorax of a deep oily steel-green, antennae blackish-brown; abdomen 
black, anal tuft drab. The steel-green forewing exhibits a large, square, snow-white discal spot extending from 
below the median to the proximal margin, only the proximal upper corner entering level into the discocellular; 
in the distal third of the wing there is a large, chestnut-red spot, on either side accompanied by a large 
white spot. Hindwing black, 3 / 4 of the basal half are occupied by an oval, semi-diaphanous, white spot. Length 
of forewings: 14 mm, Biagi, Mambara River, British New Guinea, in February. 
C. germana is very closely allied to the preceding, distinguished by longer, narrower, more tapering 
forewings and less round hindwings with a more extended anal angle. Head, antennae, the basal sixth of the 
forewing, abdomen and anal tuft jet-black with a steel-green reflection. On the forewing, except the base, the 
basal two fifths are snow-white, the distal three fifths being black, but almost entirely filled up by a large, 
chestnut-red spot; at the cell-end and before the margin on the 2nd radial there is one small white spot each. 
Hindwing in the 2 basal thirds snow-white, distal and proximal margins black. Length of forewings: 13’/ 2 m. 
Biagi, Mambara River, British New Guinea, in February. 
C. coeruleomarginata Bothsch. Head, antennae, thorax and abdomen black. Forewing in the basal 
third steel-green, distally more with a blue reflection and traversed by a broad white band; the distal two 
thirds chestnut-red, bordered with a deep metallic blue. Hindwing black, near the base a large oval white 
spot. Length of forewings: 12 mm. From the Snow Mountains (Oetakwa River) in Dutch New Guinea, October 
till December. 
