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C. imitatrix Rothsch. most closely approximates the preceding and differs by its white collar, a green im-Ualrix. 
lustre on the head and thorax, the red spot in the apex of the forewing being bordered with black, not with 
blue. Likewise from the Snow Mountains in Dutch New Guinea. 
C. unipunctata Rothsch. differs from germana and bipuncta by its white collar, being otherwise very unipuncia- 
similar, though the forewing exhibits only one white subapical spot, whilst that at the proximal border of 
the red marginal area is absent. Length of forewings: 11 mm. Biagi, Mambara River, British New Guinea, 
in February. 
C. peraffinis Rothsch. is very much like unipunctata , but larger and also here the subapical white spot peraffinis. 
is entirely absent ; collar black, but the base of the shoulder-covers is white. The forewing is more extensively 
white in the whole proximal half. On the hindwing the middle two thirds are cuneiformly white; fringes in 
the inner-marginal area as far as the 2nd median grey. Length of forewings: 13 mm. Biagi, Mambara River, 
British New Guinea, in February. 
C. postexpansa Rothsch. is coloured like peraffinis, but cpiite uncommon by the extraordinarily large postexpan- 
hindwings which are larger than the forewings; the peculiar sight is still more intensified by the fact that the 
hindwings are completely rounded off. The hindwing exhibits a broader white transverse band placed more 
towards the margin. Length of forewings: 11 x / 2 mm. Likewise from British New Guinea, Biagi on the Mambara 
River, taken in February. 
C. fuliginosa Rothsch. Head, antennae, thorax and abdomen are black, the anal tuft reddish greyish- fuliginosa. 
white. The black forewing exhibits an antemedian, faded white band and a postmedian, chestnut-red band of 
6 1 / 2 mm width; the margins of both the bands are powdered with black scales imparting to them a sooty appearance. 
Hindwings black; a white cuneiform spot in the basal half extends from the costal margin to the anal angle: 
at the apex there is a chestnut-red spot very much powdered with black. Length of forewings: 15 mm. Oetakwa 
River, Snow Mountains in Dutch New Guinea (October till December). 
C. marginipuncta Rothsch. Head, antennae, thorax and abdomen sooty blackish-brown, forewing margini- 
in the basal two fifths brownish-black, almost entirely covered by a semidiaphanous, large, white spot extending 
from the costal margin to the inner-marginal vein; at the cell-end there is a chestnut-red, cuneiform spot bordered 
with black extending into the white spot; the distal three fifths are chestnut-red bordered with a blackish brown; 
at the margin there is on the 1st median a white spot. The hindwing is in the basal half obliquely cut off semi¬ 
diaphanous white, in the distal half and at the proximal margin black; at the anal angle a chestnut-red spot. 
Length of forewings: 18 mm. Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains in Dutch New Guinea (October till December). 
C. metallica Rothsch. $: body bluish-black, head and thorax with an intense lustre, abdomen less meiaUicu. 
lustrous. Forehip, anterior tibia, first segment of the anterior tarsus except at the base, the apex of the middle 
femur and of the middle tibiae and of the first tarsal joint, a great part of the posterior femora and posterior 
tibiae, a pointed spot on the first segment of the posterior tarsus, the apex of the middle and posterior hip, a 
small spot at the base of the tegulae, and a tuft before the abdominal anus are white. Forewing above lustrous 
blue, at the apex a purple-orange spot. Hindwing white with a broad, bluish-black band outside and at the 
proximal margin, one and a half times as broad at the apex as at the anal angle, but here as broad as at the 
proximal margin. The under surface is blackish blue, with a faint lustre, the forewing broadly bluish-white 
at the base, this area being continued in the cell as far as its lower angle. The orange spot at the apex is some¬ 
what larger than above. The hindwings like above, the blackish-blue band a little narrower, particularly before 
the anal angle. Length of forewing: 10 mm. New Guinea. 
C. calida Wkr. (16 e) has black forewings, the proximal half being golden yellow, only the extreme calida. 
base black, in the marginal area a large, copper-red spot. Hindwing in the basal half golden yellow, distally 
and at the proximal margin black. The species differs from the similar ones by its golden yellow collar. Celebes, 
Amboina, Ceram. The typical calida is distinguished from the other forms by a much broader black proximal 
margin and originates from New Guinea and the Moluccas. — subsp. flavicollis Snell, from Celebes. In this fiavicollis. 
form the black proximal margin of the hindwing is narrower than the basal area of the forewing, less broad 
than 1 mm. The black marginal band is in the narrower than in the 2. — subsp. tenuis Rothsch. from Sumatra tenuis. 
and the Kina-balu in North Borneo in its colouring exactly resembles the $ of Scaptesyle tricolor (16 d); the 
yellow area on the forewing extends almost to the lower cell-angle, the discal black being therefore very narrow. 
On the hindwing the whole proximal margin is yellow, the black marginal band extremely narrow. — reducfa reducta. 
form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) from New Guinea (Milne Bay) has the yellow of the basal half very much reduced, 
owing to the much broader black base on both wings. 
C. mixta Swinh. (16 e) is similar, somewhat smaller, the basal yellow colouring is more intense, more mixta. 
orange, nor does it extend to the costal margin, whilst on the hindwing it is much more extensive. Collar bluish- 
black. Mysol and New Guinea (Milne Bay and Kapaur). 
