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RADINOCERA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
wing not interrupted at the veins, the patch of the hindwing more transverse. Hind wing beneath with blue 
figurata. costal streak at the base. New Guinea, several geographical forms. —■ figurata subsp. nov. (3 a). Forewing 
with small blue spots near the base and at the distal side of the band, the with white cell-spot; the patch 
of the hindwing separate from the abdominal edge. The cell of the forewing beneath with 2 white spots in $ 
perisa. and $. Humboldt Bay in Dutch New Guinea (type), and German New Guinea; in numbers before me. —• perisa 
subsp. nov. Forewing only with a few blue dots in the basal area, the cell only beneath with 2 small spots, which 
are both blue; patch of hindwing as before, less rounded in $. The abdomen of A with white hair on 
upperside of segments 2 and 3; anal brush of <$ black above in the centre. Milne Bay, south-eastern corner 
goldici. of New Guinea. —- goldiei Druce. Three or more abdominal segments white above; forewing above without 
blue dots; patch of hindwing reaching abdominal edge. Anal brush of black above in the centre. At Pt. 
cremor. Moresby and on the Aroa R., in British New Guinea. —- cremor subsp. nov. <$: Palpi black and yellow, only 
with a few whitish scales at the apex of segment 2; hair of fore and hind coxae pale yellow; patagia 
without white spot; abdominal segment 2—4 entirely cream-colour above, 5—7 black without white edges. 
Forewing as in goldiei without blue dots above, only bearing a bluish white costal dot at the base; discal 
band and patch of hindwing cream-colour, the latter as in goldiei extended to the abdominal edge. 1 <$ from 
Mt. Goliath, Snow Mts. in the South of Dutch New Guinea, found by A. S. Meek at about 1500 m. in March 
1911. —- It is possible that goldiei and cremor are specifically distinct from figurata and perisa ; but we have 
not found any structural differences. 
inconspicua. A. inconspicua Roths. Larger than goldiei. The pronotum with a faint grey margin; underside of ab¬ 
domen white, the last sternite for the greater part black in the $, the apex orange. Patch of hindwing much 
larger than in the forms of goldiei, reaching to the abdominal edge, at the median nervure at least twice as 
broad as the black distal border. Glaspers of A with greyish yellow and black hair. Length of forewing 
22—27 mm. — Humboldt Bay and Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea. 
unimacula. A. uniniacula Lower is not known to me in nature. Expanse 40 mm; body blackish, palpi grey be¬ 
neath. Forewing with some small blue-white spots, on the disc from % of costa to near hind angle a white band 
which is widest in front and constricted behind; hindwing with large round white spot in the centre and 
white-spotted fringes. — Mackay, Queensland, 1 $ collected in October. Specifically distinct from goldiei ? 
A. aurea. Head, thorax and base of abdomen blue-black, abdomen otherwise orange above, beneath 
black with white transverse bands, coxae with grey hair. Forewing with a broad deep orange band from the 
costal margin to the hind angle, where it is produced basad. Hindwing with orange band. In the $ the base 
of the abdomen more extended black than in the and the band of the hindwing narrower. The bands 
aurea. paler beneath than above, that of the hindwing, moreover, narrower and shorter. New Guinea. —- aurea 
Jord. (3 a). Band of forewing posteriorly but very little produced basad, not being broader at the sub¬ 
median fold than at the costal margin. About a dozen AS collected by Meek on the southern and northern 
jervida. slopes of the Owen-Stanlev Mts. in British New Guinea. — fervida subsp. nov. <$: Band of forewing broader at 
the submedian fold than at the costal margin, more strongly hook-shaped in front of the hind margin; band 
of hindwing rather broader than in aurea , especially costally, and also somewhat deeper orange. Band of 
foreving hook-shaped as in A\ that of hindwing about as broad as the black distal border, excurved in the 
centre. Abdominal segments 1—3 above almost entirely black, as is the base of 4, the extreme base of 5 and 6 
blackish, 7 blackish in the middle and before the apex. In the foot-hills of the Snow Mts. in Southern Dutch New 
Guinea near the lower reaches of the Oetakwa River in November; a number of AS and 2 $$ (A. S. Meek). 
b) Head and thorax yellow, with black spots. 
A. megisto. The rather extensive series of specimens before me proves on account of the numerous 
intergradations that megisto, neurogramma and basiplaga, which hitherto have been considered distinct species, 
are only forms of one species. Hinclwing black-blue or greenish, with yellow apex. Forewing steel-blue, the 
outer third brownish black, the veins striped with yellowish white, in the basal area a thin band and a broader 
one and on the disc a broad band yellowish white. Hindwing black, slightly metallic, with or without white 
megisto. area. f. megisto Bdv. (= pyraliformis Walk.) (3 b), median area of forewing with light vein-streaks only, hind- 
ncurogram- wing without white patch, f. neurogramma Meyr. (3 b), median area of forewing entirely or for the greater 
• f yT' - part bluish grey, sometimes almost the whole wing of this colour, hindwing without white patch, f. intermedia 
’ form, nov., forewing as in megisto or nearly as in neurogramma, hindwing with a white median patch which is 
basiplaga. more or less shaded with black on the upperside. f. basiplaga Roths. (3 c), forewing as in intermedia, hind¬ 
wing with large white patch which reaches to the base. — Dutch and British New Guinea, rather plentiful; 
occurs certainly also in the German territory of the island. 
restrictus. A. restrictus Roths. (3 c). Forewing above and hindwing beneath much more strongly glossy than in 
A. megisto', forewing streaked only distally, the bands strongly reduced, but there is an additional spot in the 
cell. — Bismarck Archipelago: New Pomerania and New Hanover. 
23. Genus; ltadinocera Hamps. 
Very similar to Argyrolepidia, the antennae rather thinner and in the A with longer cilia, the 
