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Show 1879.] MOTHS FROM NEW IRELAND. 161 lering in its more rounded primaries, the bright purple-shot of the wings, the large white patch on the secondaries, the form of the single white spot of the primaries, with other slighter differences. OPHTHALMIS LINCEA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. pi. 228. fig. B. LlTHOSIIDiE. HYPSIN^E. H Y P S A EUSEMIOIDES, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pi. cvi. fig. 1. ?• There are three pairs of this species in the collection. The males (as usual in this genus) have the anterior wings more produced at apex than the females; the white belt on these wings also varies considerably in form and width. HYPSA LEUCONEURA, n. sp. Allied to H. doryca of Boisduval. Anterior wings greyish brown, sericeous, with all the veins white; a nearly circular white spot in the centre, cut by the median vein and its second and third branches ; base ochraceous upon the veins, a bright ochreous basal spot connected with a black spot, beyond which is an angulated series of transverse black spots : secondaries white, with a broad, internally Insinuated, blackish outer border, confluent with a much narrower blackish abdominal border: body ochreous, the back of head, the collar, and tegulse distinctly orange ; palpi, antennae, a small spot on each shoulder, and a series of triangular spots down the centre of the abdomen black. Wings below dull blackish or smoky brown, the primaries with a central white spot and a cream-coloured spot at the base ; secondaries with a very broad white patch from the internal nervure to the first subcostal branch : body below ochreous ; legs, with the exception of the coxae, blackish ; venter with a row of five blackish spots on each side. Expanse of wing 2 inches 2 to 4 lines. Two males and a female. In the earlier collection of Lepidoptera from Duke-of-York Island there was a single much rubbed and dwarfed example of this species (noted in P. Z. S. 1877, p. 149, as allied to H. intacta). Two of the examples in the series now sent are in very fair condition, proving the species to be most nearly allied to H. doryca, but darker in coloration, with white veins and a rounded instead of a comet-like spot on the fore wings, and with no black spots on the prothorax. DAMALIS ALCIPHRON, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 133. fig. E. A single strongly marked female of this widely distributed species, which, since the publication of my revision of the Hypsinee, we have received from the Andamans and New Guinea. AGAPE LEONINA, n. sp. Like A. analis, Walker (Agape cyanopyga, Felder, Nov. Lep. iv. pi. cvi. fi"-. 4), excepting that the abdomen has all the segments PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1879, No. XI. 11 |