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tween 3 and 4; black terminal lunules; fringe dark grey with paler rays beyond veins; the inward 
tooth of inner line and the outward tooth of outer line on vein 1 tipped with white; hind wing dull 
dirty whitish, smoky fuscous along inner margin, with broad fuscous terminal border; cellspot, outer 
line, and veins slightly darker. Sikkim, and the Khasia Hills, Assam;—ab. clarior ab. nov. (171), from the clarior. 
Khasia Hills, has a pale green patch at base, and the orbicular stigma reddish, coalescing obliquely with 
a reddish patch at base of vein 2; the inner margin also greener, and the whole wing without dark 
dusting. 
E. multicolor Wan. (17 1). Forewing pinkish grey suffused with rufous and brown towards base, muHicolor. 
the inner margin below vein 1 and the terminal area below vein 3 pale green; the outer half of wing 
before outer line triangularly suffused with fuscous; lines double, the arms well apart; subbasal oblique 
at first, then vertical; a black spot at base of submedian interval; a pale patch at base of inner margin 
edged with brownish, and with deep black scales on inner margin, followed by a pale green patch on 
submedian fold, vein 1 beyond it brown spotted with black; inner line dentate lunulate, the teeth point¬ 
ing inwards and black, the lunules brown, oblique outwards to middle of wing; the claviform stigma 
small, black brown, beyond middle of wing; orbicular stigma round, purple black; reniform narrow, 
oblique outwards, produced and swollen outwards at top, and filled with redbrown, having beneath the 
projection a diamond-shaped pure pinkish white spot pointed at each end; outer line double, oblique to 
vein 6, then vertical, inwardly oblique and lunulate dentate below 4, the inner arm thick and diffuse, 
the outer fine, the teeth on veins 1, 2, 3, 4 very long, marked with black and white dots; apical area 
whitish washed with pale red brown; subterminal line pale and waved above, then greenish, preceded by 
a red brown shade from vein 6 to 2; terminal lunules black, those beyond cell larger and containing 
between them a green wedge-shaped mark; fringe pinkish ochreous, mottled with brown above vein 5, deep 
brown below; hindwing fuscous, paler basewards, deeper along termen, with dark veins and cellspot. 
Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea; the ab. nigriplaga ab. nov. (171) differs from the type in nigriplaga. 
having a large blackish blotch on inner margin before inner line and a blackish shade from beyond cell 
to termen reaching from vein 3 to 6 and along termen to apex, the costal area from middle to near apex 
being green, the oblique shade beyond outer line violet slate colour, and the pale mark beyond reniform 
stigma simply white, without any pink tinge; head and palpi ochreous, ringed and speckled with 
brown; tegulae dark brown with a paler line; thorax and prothoracic tuft pale brown; patagia green 
with brown scattered scales; abdomen greenish brown with the tufts fulvous; this specimen came, with 
another $ quite typically coloured, from the Ninay Valley, Dutch New Guinea, and a typical from 
the (Etakwa River; a <$ from Penang must be separated as subsp. ochrea subsp. nov. (171); in it though ochrea. 
the markings are identical, the ground colour both of wings and body is pale ochreous washed with pale 
olive brown in places, the only green remaining being along termen from middle to tornus, the other 
green areas being creamy ochreous; an oblique black streak runs from base above vein 1 to inner 
margin; the apical blotch is whitish; the praeanal segment of dorsum is marked by two black spots 
with brown scaling behind them. The specimen was captured in November 1896 by Mr. Curtis. 
E. pratti Beth.-Baker (17 k). Forewing smooth olive grey; costal area at base, inner margin be- pratii. 
fore inner line, and the bands on each side of subterminal line yellow green; costa with black patches 
between the lines; lines black; a black spot at base containing a white dot; subbasal line black with 
green on each side; space before inner line with black patch on costa and another on vein 1; inner line 
double, black, the arms far apart, the inner preceded by white scales, the outer dentate; outer line 
double, black, the arms well separated towards inner margin, the outer followed by white scales, bent 
outwards below costa, strongly excurved above and deeply indented between veins 2 and 3, then verti¬ 
cal; a black blotch on middle of costa, and another beyond outer line to apex, the outer line edged 
by a black shade from it; subterminal line marked only by the two shades of green; terminal area 
olive grey, with a darker shade; fringe grey with a green reflection; orbicular stigma small, reniform ver¬ 
tical, both olive grey, outlined with black; a bent median shade, plain only below middle; hindwing 
dirty whitish tinged with olive grey in basal half, blackish fuscous along termen; head and thorax greenish 
grey lined with black; dorsum rufous ochreous. New Guinea. Baker’s type, from which Hampson’s de¬ 
scription was made, is a A from Dinawa; that given here is from a $ from Upper Setekwa River, Snow 
Mts., Dutch New Guinea. 
E. adamantina Trnr. (171). Forewing deep rufous as far as outer line, purplish brown beyond; adamantina. 
the costa suffused with dark brown and grey; inner and outer lines olive brown, conversely edged with 
pale, the inner waved, the outer lunulate dentate, excurved above and oblique below vein 4; subterminal 
line a series of grey and black dentate marks; orbicular and reniform stigmata olive at centre with white 
annuli defined by black, the former small, irregularly rounded, the latter V-shaped, open above and 
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