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line. At the costal margin and the base of the wing grey dusting, at the distal angle and the proximal transverse 
line there is reddish-yellow dusting. Hindwing uni-coloured grey. Forewing beneath at the proximal margin 
whitish-grey, towards the costal margin dusted darker, hindwing dark grey with lighter fringes. Aru Islands. 
L. rosina Pag. (47 f). <$: 50 mm. Allied with B. rosea Hmps., but without the black proximal margin 
of the hindwing. Head, collar and shoulder-covers yellowish-white like the foiewing. On the costa 6 black 
spots which are connected with just as many rows of black spots extending as far as the proximal margin. A 
marginal row of black spots, hindwings snow-white, proximal margin pink, which colour passes over a 
little into the disc and along the costal margin to the apical angle. Legs and abdomen pink, the abdomen above 
dotted black. New Pomerania. 
L. brotea Cr. <$: white. Antennae brownish-yellow. Forewing with narrow, oblique, somewhat 
undulate, brownish-yellow transverse bands: 2 submedian ones (which may also be called a double band), 
an antemedian one forming a spot on the costal margin, a sublimbal one. A similarly coloured basal spot and 
another one in the cell, as well as a crescentiform transverse spot at the cell-end. Body beneath white with 
grey legs. Expanse up to 66 mm. Amboina and ( ?) Coromandel Coast. 
L. inordinata Wkr. fawn, rosy-red at the posterior margin of the head, on the short, strong, ascen¬ 
ding palpi being outside mostly coloured black, at the base of the antennae and the sides of the abdomen. Fore¬ 
wing speckled black with one black angular mark each at the end of the cell, a black diffuse spot between the 
cell and the proximal margin, two brown sublimbal transverse bands formed of moon-spots, and brown spots 
on the fringes. Length of wings: 49 mm. Makian, Celebes. 
L. antennata Wkr. (40 d). <$: fawn. Antennae with very long combs. Thorax in front rosy-red. 
Abdomen the same, but with three rows of black spots. Coxae and femora pink. Forewing with black spots 
and oblique, incomplete bands, with a rosy-red spot near the base of the costal margin; the third dorsal 'vein 
is about three times as distant from the fourth as from the second. Hindwing with a brown marginal band and 
a pink dorsal area. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. Australia: Richmond River, Moreton Bay. 
L. lygaea B.-Bak. (41 d). head, antennae and thorax umbra-brown, abdomen pink. Forewing 
umbra-brown with dark brown markings: an interrupted basal line, a median, feebly serrate line projecting 
distally in the cell, but being bent towards the base behind the cell, a roundish diffuse patch in the cell, which 
is closed by a double spot, finally a dark, serrate postmedian line extending towards the base behind 
the cell; a similar line is in the subterminal area; margin spotted dark. Hindwing brownish-grey. Expanse 
of wings: 38 mm. British New Guinea. January and February. 
L. silca Swinh. (41 e). Both sexes show a light ochreous flesh-coloured head, thorax and forewing, 
with brownish spots on the costal margin and border, and others scattered here and. there on the surface of 
the wing, mostly with a discocellular spot. Hindwings white. Both wings slightly diaphanous. Under surface 
white. Expanse of wings: 32, £ 39 mm. Fergusson Island, New Guinea. 
L. ekeikei B.-Bak. (41 d). <$: yellowish grey or (abdomen) yellowish-brown. Forewing whitish-grey, 
with a yellowish hue, 6 strongly dentate, dark grey lines, the 5 distal ones being most closely juxtaposited, 
in the basal area a row of 2 or 3 dark grey? spots, the distal margin spotted black, the costal margin with 4 
black spots. Hindwing unspotted yellow. Beneath both wings yellow. — head and thorax whitish grey; 
abdomen rosy-red, of the same colour the hindwings. Beneath both wings are rosy-red. Expanse of wings: 
(J 41, $ 60 mm. British New Guinea, January—February. 
L. kebeae B.-Bak. Allied with ninayi (41 d). q : head black, collar white, thorax white, spotted 
and striated black, abdomen black with a yellow anus. Legs black, with long white hair, femora above red. 
Forewing greyish, veins orange; basal area white, dotted black; a broad, black, interrupted antemedian band, 
a black spot in the cell, a black and reniform discocellular spot, opposite it on the proximal margin a white 
diffuse patch cut by a black lunar figure, between the cell and the margin are three transverse rows of black 
spots, the margin is spotted black. Hindwing orange with a black spot in the cell, a black dorsal area and a 
narrow black marginal band. Beneath the hindwing is black with an orange median patch. Expanse of wings: 
42 mm. Mount Kebea in British New Guinea; in March and April. 
L. ninayi B.-Bak. (41 d). White, collar marked black, legs with red and black stripes. Abdomen 
black. Forewing white with a dark grey marginal area, yellow veins, in the costal a’ea 5 or 6 black marks, 
two postmedian, dentate transverse lines, the margin spotted black. Hindwing white, in the anal fourth black. 
Expanse of wings: 39 mm. New Guinea, Ninay Valley, 3600 ft. — Allied with L. kebeae B.-Bak. 
rosina. 
broiea. 
inordinata. 
antennata. 
lygaea. 
silca. 
ekeikei. 
kebeae. 
ninayi. 
