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middle at | connected only by black second discal stigma witb a 
vague streak running to join first streak on middle of dorsum, some 
marking towards termen beneath apex, and a spot on tornus : cilia 
basal half green barred blackish, beyond a blackish median shade 
grey-whitish. Hind wings dark grey; cilia whitish-grey, a dark 
grey basal line. 
Comoro Is., Grand Comoro (Humblot ); 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). 
A fine species of the primitive group. 
Tortyra rhododilaena, n. sp. 
2 • 24 mm. Head blackish irrorated metallic green. Palpi 
dark fuscous, white towards base beneath. Pore wings elongate, 
posteriorly dilated, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; blackish, irrorated 
metallic green ; a broad rose-pink antemediau transverse fascia, 
narrowed towards costa and not quite reaching it: cilia dark 
fuscous. Hindwings blackish ; an oval ochreous-yellow blotch in 
disc before middle, a submedian streak from base to middle, and 
a shorter and slenderer subdorsal streak; cilia white, basal third 
dark fuscous. 
Prench Guiana, 11. Maroni; 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). The 
example is not in good condition, but the species is singularly 
distinct. 
Hoplopliractis heptaehalca Meyr. 
Trinidad ; bred January from larvae feeding externally on seeds 
of Clidemia hirta ( Melastomacece) (H. W. Simmonds). 
Simaethis tomicodes, n. sp. 
S 2 • 14 mm. Closely allied to cyanotoxa Meyr., but differs in 
the absence of the detached dorsal segment of the second blue line 
of forewings, which ends at from costa and is connected with 
dorsum by a zigzag black line not found in cyanotoxa ; both blue 
lines are terminated on costal edge with whitish, not in cyanotoxa ; 
the blue discal mark touches the second blue line with its lower 
end. 
Solomon Is., Plorida and Bougainville. (Meek) ; 2 ex. (Coll. 
Paravicini). 
Simaethis porphyratma, n. sp. 
$. 14 mm. Head ochreous somewhat sprinkled whitish. Palpi 
with several projecting ochreous whorls, each ending in a dark 
grey white-tipped ring. Thorax orange-ochreous with indistinct 
greyish white-sprinkled lines. Porewings triangular, costa gently 
arched, termen bowed, slightly oblique ; bright chestnut-brown, 
basal area orange-ochreous sprinkled white ; two rather irregular 
fascise of white irroration, first attenuated and forming a small 
white spot on costa, second bisected towards costa by a line of 
groundcolour and forming two such spots, both in disc suffused 
purplish and thinly sprinkled dark fuscous, first antemedian, 
