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C. calliloma Druce (56 B b). This species of which only the 2 is figured hitherto, originates from North 
Queensland. It almost exactly resembles the $ of joiceyi except the white cucullate spots being somewhat 
thinner and the veins not being so bright. 
C. aroa B.-Bak. (56 Bd). The $ is rather variegated; in the basal third the distal part is lighter, 
in the marginal third the proximal part; the white stigma before the centre of the forewing is surrounded with 
dark. Hindwing crossed by dark undulate lines and chains of light spots. The $ has cliocolate-brown wings 
crossed by the lighter veins; in the basal third a large, yellow stigma-spot; the spots of the submarginal chain 
are golden yellow, their distal points stunted. British New Guinea. 
C. rosselliana Bothsch. Head and thorax chocolate-brown, abdomen deep orange. Basal part of 
forewing as far as 3 / 5 orange-brown, the distal part lighter, more yellowish. Near the base a broad, irregular, 
dark brown band, behind it the dull yellow stigma-spot surrounded by brown; through the centre a bent blackish- 
brown band; in the marginal part 3 black zigzag lines of a varying distinctness; below the apex a dark brown 
spot. The $ has a saffron-coloured head and body, with a grey anus; forewing saffron with a large white stigma 
and an antemarginal chain of small white crescents. Rossel and South East Island in the Louisiad Archipelago. 
— diluta Bothsch. (57 c) from St. Aignan exhibits the antemarginal spots extinct. 
C. meekii Bothsch. (56 B d) is a variegated species. d : forewing with a creamy-white basal part in 
which there is a stigma surrounded with dark; through the centre a broad brown median band; marginal third 
grey with a doubly dentate undulate line. Hindwing dull yellowish-red, marginal part behind a chain of light 
spots dark brown. $ with a very large, irregular, white discal spot of the forewing on a chocolate ground and 
large, broad, white crescentiform spots flown together into a submarginal chain. North East New Guinea. 
C. castaneorufa Bothsch. In this species from the Setakwa River in Dutch New Guinea the exhibits 
a dark brown thoracal dorsum; the forewing is dark liver-brown with a white dot at the base, a white ante- 
median stigma with a brown transverse band behind it, being distinct and broad at the costal margin 
and growing narrower and more indistinct towards the proximal margin; an antemarginal chain of greyish- 
olive crescents. Hindwing orange, the distal two thirds almost entirely covered with liver-brown, in the basal 
^ third a brown transverse line, in the marginal third a curved orange line. 
C. bisecta Bothsch. Size a little larger than that of the following. Only the $ is known; it lias a dark 
brown forewing with a black median band and an indistinct blackish postmedian band followed by a band 
of tan-coloured, small crescents, behind which there is a line of black dots connected by a series of small indi¬ 
stinct blackish lunae. From the Angabunga River in British New Guinea. 
C. brunnescens Bothsch. (56 B c). £ brown, forewing and hindwing quite similarly marked, traversed 
by a median, straight, dark transverse line and a distal dense chain of spots. $ similar to that of the preceding 
species, but the submarginal white spots separated so far by the light chocolate ground-colour, that they remain 
rather remote from each other. North East New Guinea. 
C. pallidipascia Bothsch. ^ head and thorax dark brown, abdomen orange. Forewing dark chocolate; 
in the basal quarter below the cell a white dot; through the centre an indistinct, black nebulous line, and 
a postmedian, double line proximally greyish-white, distally dark brown; fringes white. Hindwing lighter 
chocolate, the postmedian line very indistinct. Somewhat smaller than joiceyi. 
C. variegata Bothsch. (56 B e) is very closely allied to meekii (56 B d) of which it may be merely a 
form. In the $ the brown median nebulous band of the forewing is proximally irregularly defined, and the 
marginal part of the hindwing not dark brown, but coloured just like the basal half. The $ scarcely differs 
from those of brunnescens or lunulata; it is midway between brunnescens -$ and calliloma- $, the lancet- 
shaped spots not being separated so far as in the former, but neither being quite contiguous. Dutch New Guinea. 
5. Genus: Paraeydas B.-Bak. 
Most closely allied to the preceding genus; the almost atrophous antennae, the very short discal cells 
of all the wings and the enormous areola formed by the subcostal base being fused with the costal margin and 
subsequent anastomosis are entirely as there; but the 2 forewings are still much broader. Otherwise the colouring 
and marking is rather similar to that of some specimens of Cotana lunulata, and the genus would probably 
be best regarded as a subdivision of Cotana. From this genus it differs particularly by vein 4 of the forewing 
rising from the low^er and 5 from the upper cell-angle, and by vein 10 not being forked. 
P. biagi B.-Bak. (56 Be), g dark chestnut-brown with a broad greyish-brown, distally darker mar¬ 
ginal band. Hindwing towards the base lighter flesh-coloured. 2 with very broad wings, with a very large, 
somewhat irregular yellowish-white cellular spot near the base of the forewing and a row of white cucullate 
spots interrupted in the radial interspaces before the distal margin. On the Mambare in North East New r 
Guinea. 
calliloma. 
aroa. 
rosselliana. 
diluta. 
meekii. 
castaneo¬ 
rufa. 
bisecta. 
brunnes¬ 
cens. 
pallidipas¬ 
cia. 
variegata. 
biagi. 
