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oblique; reniform with lower extremity strongly produced, with one white dot; veins more prominently 
yellow; the median shade angled; subterminal line conspicuous, except between veins 3 and 4, bluish 
white and sharply zigzag from costa to vein 4, yellower below 3 and inangled on submedian fold; the 
terminal lunules tipped with bluish white; hindwing with the terminal border narrower. 1 $ in Tring 
Museum from Queensland. 
B. callopistrioides Moore (18 i). Forewing deep olive fuscous; the veins yellow, tinged with rosy; callopisiri- 
inner line angled outwards on subcostal vein, and rosy, then outcurved to inner margin near base, 0ldes - 
and whitish; outer line yellowish, outcurved and indented on each fold, followed by a narrow ochreous 
belt; subterminal line white and zigzag to vein 6, then rufous, inangled to 5, and running out to margin 
at 4, marked by greyish ochreous lunules below; the black terminal lunules tipped with white; orbicular 
broadly V-shaped, often obscure; reniform with the lateral edges and linear centre dull yellow, the 
lower extremity with one white spot; hindwing pale yellow; the dark terminal border wide, its inner 
edge nearly straight, not curved. Khasia Hills, Assam. 
D. similis spec. nov. (18 h). Nearest to dissimilis, but the veins yellower, more strongly marked; similis. 
the submarginal line not broadly blue white, but narrowly whitish, forming three larger teeth inwards 
and two outwards, reappearing below vein 3 as in dissimilis', the inner line almost angled on vein 1; 
the border of hindwing broad as in thalpophiloides. 1 $ from Lower Burma (type), and a second without 
locality label. 
D. obliterata spec. nov. (18i). Forewing dark redbrown, with broad blurred greenish white obliterala. 
spaces, more or less obscuring the markings; a patch on basal area above median, and a smaller one 
at base below it; the inner margin beyond inner line, meeting a similar broad greenish white band from 
apex to inner margin, limiting the outer line, which is white and lunulate dentate, preceded by dark 
lunules; a long slightly curved white mark along vein 4 towards 5; a streak of pale green above it; 
subterminal line marked below middle only by white black-edged lunules; terminal area washed with white, 
terminal lunules black; fringe brown; hindwing as in callopistrioides. I $ from Kuching, Borneo, type, 
and 2 $$ without locality label, in Tring Museum. 
D. aroa Beth.-Baker (18 i). Forewing olive brown, speckled in parts with purplish grey; the veins aroa. 
in places paler; a spot of green scales at base of submedian fold; inner line violaceous grey, angled out¬ 
wards on subcostal vein and again inwards, then oblique outwards and excurved, running in to inner 
margin near base, preceded and followed by deep purplish scaling; outer line violaceous, outbent below 
costa, then outcurved and crenulate, slightly indented beyond cell, below middle lunulate dentate, edged 
with white and followed by a purplish grey band; orbicular stigma a wide V, the outer arm green; reni¬ 
form with inner edge bright whitish green, the centre and outer edge violaceous, the produced upper 
end followed by a patch of bright green scales, the lower end by two, one on each side of vein 4; 
before submarginal line a deep purplish band across which vein 6 is thickened with olive brown scales; 
submarginal line marked above vein 6 by 3 white angles, below it obscured, brown marked with white, 
angled inwards to vein 5 and outwards to termen at 4; terminal lunules purple brown; hindwing deep 
yellow, with a broad redbrown terminal border, preceded by a brown outer line across middle. Described 
from the Tipper Aroa River, British New Guinea; also from Milne Bay, New Guinea, and from the 
Kei Islands. 
D. pratti Beth.-Baker (18 h). Forewing yellowish tinged with rufous; the costal area above middle pratti. 
and the terminal area deep red brown, the veins with pale streaks; inner line white, edged with black, 
sharply angled outwards on subcostal vein, then excurved and oblique to inner margin; outer line white, 
edged by black on each. side, uniformly curved from below costa to middle of inner margin; a white 
band from apex oblique to beyond middle of inner margin; subterminal line fine and dentate, only vi¬ 
sible below vein 5; inangled on submeclian fold; terminal line whitish, waved; orbicular stigma V-shaped, 
whitish; reniform defined by oblique white bars and a curved line from beyond angle of cell; hind¬ 
wing rufous yellow. New Guinea, Ekeikei, and Mt. Kebea. 
34. Genus: 3Teopistria Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment roughly fringed 
with hair, the third smooth, slender, porrect; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax clothed with scales, slightly 
crested; abdomen crested towards base; forewing with termen outbent in middle and slightly excised above 
and below; anal angle with a slight scale tooth; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; no areole; 6, 7 of hind¬ 
wing short stalked. Type N. viridinotata Hmps. 
N. viridinotata Hmps. Forewing purplish rufous with some black irroration; inner margin viridinotata. 
