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curved brown marks from the costal margin; the space between the two lines is of a deep chestnut-brown; 
the yellow basal and marginal areas are speckled in a brownish grey; at the anal angle a dull reddish cloud; 
fringes red-brown with lustrous tips; at the apex a silvery white spot. Hindwing with a reddish antemedian 
band which is proximally bordered by a thick, straight, red-brown line, its distal border being irregularly undulate 
below the apex a grey cloud; between the veins in the distal area 2 or 3 rows of small dark spots. Forewing 
beneath of a deep wine-coloured brown, except along the proximal margin; costal-marginal stripe rosy-red, 
the margin at the base yellow. Along the distal line from the apex to vein 3 mother-of-pearl shading. Hind¬ 
wing of a bright yellow, the-basal half, except along the proximal margin, claret-coloured; a red apical 
spot. Face, palpi, chest, and fringes on the legs of a bright red; shoulders whitish. Mount Etna in Dutch 
New Guinea; also from the Upper Aroa River, Biagi on the Mambare, on the Upper Setekwa and Mount 
Goliath. — In ab. griseata ab. nov. (50 f) of which I only saw the red scaling has turned dark olive-grey, griseata. 
In the Tring Museum there are 2 Uo from the upper Setekwa and 1 from the Upper Aroa. — Another aber¬ 
ration, ab. olivata ab. nov. (50 f) has the whole forewing and the discal and marginal band of the hinclwing olivata. 
suffused with deep olive-brown or dark brown, the basal area on both wings shows traces of the yellow ground¬ 
colour; the distal line is deep yellowish-red, distally bordered with yellow; the costal margin of the forewing 
is yellow as far as the proximal line, then of a bright red or yellowish-brown; the costal-marginal area of the 
hindwing is broad flesh-coloured pink, the marginal band which otherwise extends to the anal angle, but in 
one case terminates right before vein 5, exhibits the proximal edge on the veins regularly notched by the light 
yellow ground-colorrr. Thorax and patagia of a deep olive-grey, the shoulders remain whitish. 4 from 
the Upper Setekwa River. Type in the Tring Museum. This may be a distinct species. 
0. amblyptila sp. nov. (50 f, g). forewing brownish-red; a diffuse triangular shade of yellowish-red amblypiila. 
at the proximal margin before the border; proximal line brown, above and below the median like in subvinosa 
distally angled; basal area somewhat lighter; at the middle and the lower end of the transverse vein 2 white 
dots; the distal line is deep orange-brown, from the darkened apex straight to the middle of the proximal margin; 
fringes dark brown. Hindwing yellow, the antemedian band like in subvenosa, and the marginal band from 
the apex to vein 5 brownish reddish-yellow; basal area watered with red; on the transverse vein 2 white dots. 
$ brownish flesh-coloured, costal margin pink behind the proximal line which is for a short distance brown; 
the oblicpie line is brownish-pink, right above the middle indented; fringes pinkish brown. In the hindwing 
the brownish-red areas of the are brown flesh-coloured, the terminal band extends into the anal angle. 
Beneath the forewing in the $ is brownish-yellow, the hindwing yellow, in the basal half and the apical band 
bright yellowish-red; in the $ all the colours are bright yellowish-red, the discal line in the forewing broad black; 
head, chest, legs and ventrum bright scarlet, vertex and shoulders yellowish, thorax and dorsum of abdomen 
like the wings. 1 $ from the Upper Setekwa and 1 $ near the Oetakwa (Snow Mountains) in Dutch New 
Guinea, collected by A. S. Meek in September 1910. 
0. mollita sp. nov. (50 g). Forewing dull light yellow, in some places tinted grey and red, and with mollila. 
dark grey and dark brown streaks. Basal area lighter, particularly before the proximal line; the proximal line 
which is followed at the costal margin by a dark, curved shade, projects above the middle, below it is bent 
inwards; the distal line is oblique and almost straight yellowish red-brown, distally bordered with yellow¬ 
ish, extending into the apex and on vein 7 connected with a bent streak from the costal margin; fringes dark 
brown; on the discocellular 2 small white dots. In the hindwing the base, median band and marginal band 
are red, the yellow space tinted grey and red, in the $ it leaves free more a yellow, subterminal zigzag line; 
Under surface yellow, traversed by rows of small red-brown spots; in the $ the forewing is almost entirely 
suffused with reddish-brown, in the ^ only slightly; the distal line on both wings clearly marked. Head, chest, 
forelegs and ventrum bright scarlet; thorax and abdomen like the wings; shoulders yellowish. 1 ^ from the 
Upper Setekwa (Snow Mountains) in Dutch New Guinea, taken by A. S. Meek in September 1910. — A 
form of the castaneata subsp. nov. (50 g) shows all the dark markings above and beneath deep chestnut- castaneala. 
brown; it originates from Mt. Goliath; one specimen is besides in the basal area of the forewing and in the 
marginal band of both wings spotted black: nigritacta ab. nov. (50 g). nigritacta. 
0. perfida sp. nov. (50 g). Forewing yellow, in the discal area and along the margin suffused with a perfida. 
light flesh-colour; the proximal line is followed from the costal direction by black shading which reaches to 
the median and encloses 2 white dots on the transverse vein, basal area dusted with small black scales and 
speckled with spots of such scales; similar black decoration in the lower half of the marginal area; the distal 
line is distally yellow, slightly outwards concave from right behind the middle of the proximal margin into the 
apex where it recedes a little at the costa. Hindwing yellow with few dark small dots; before the middle a 
band proximally bordered by a flesh-coloured line, distally badly defined, and the apical band flesh-coloured; 
towards the anal angle some black blots. Forewing beneath bright red with some dark speckling in the cell, 
and traces of the distal line; proximal margin whitish. Hindwing beneath yellow, costal margin, a discal band, 
and the marginal band red. Head, legs, chest, and sides of abdomen with the anal tuft bright red, patagia 
and abdomen yellow; shoulders whitish, thorax reddish; basal joint of abdomen above with a black transverse 
stripe. The type, a $ from near the Setekwa River (Snow Mountains) in Dutch New Guinea, collected by A. 
S. Meek October to December. A second q, more greyish flesh-coloured, from the Upper Setekwa; a third 
from the same habitat is much greyer and without black spots at the base or margin of the wings; it may be 
distinguished as ab. semiomata ab. nov. (50 g). But whether the two following specimens are aberrations as semiomata. 
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