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Show 162 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Feb. 18, bright ochreous, with lateral black cuneiform anterior borders, second, third, and sometimes the fourth of which unite in the middle of the dorsal line so as to form transverse belts. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. Five examples. The anal segment in A. analis and A. chloropyga is blue-black. Of these two species, the first occurs in Ceram and Amboina, and the second at Port Macquarie (New S. Wales). NEOCHERA EUGENIA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. pi. 398. fig. M. The examples from New Ireland vary slightly in the inward diffusion of the blue-black border of the posterior wings, the whole interno-median area in some specimens being streaked with blue and grey. CLEIS POSTICALIS, Guerin, Voy. Coquille, p. 286, pi. 18. fig. One female. CLEIS LUNIGERA, n. sp. Allied to C. arctata. Chocolate-brown, wings above with a faint purplish gloss ; primaries with a large semicircular orange patch, almost crossing the wing in an oblique direction beyond the middle; secondaries generally with a squamose indication of an orange sub-marginal belt: wings below blacker than above, brilliantly shot with purple; primaries with a more golden-orange semicircular patch; secondaries with a broad submarginal orange belt, not reaching the apex ; body below orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. Four specimens, hardly differing in pattern. NYCTEMERIDJE. N Y C T E M E R A BAULUS, Boisduval, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, p. 200, n. 5. Four examples. The type was obtained at Bourou ; there is also a specimen in the collection of the British Museum from Ternate. DEILEMERA ARTEMIS. Nyctemera artemis, Boisduval, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, p. 199, n. 4. Occurs also in New Guinea and Ceram. EUSCHEMID.E1. MNIOCERA, n. gen. Allied to Craspedosis and, less closely, to Bursada; from both it differs in its long slender palpi and extremely finely pectinated slenderer antennis : in Craspedosis, as in this genus, the antennae are rather ciliated than pectinated. Type Celerena cincta, Walk. MNIOCERA CINERESCENS, n. sp. Blue-black : primaries with three shining silver-grey abbreviated bands across the internobasal area; a rounded white spot with a 1 Always referred to the Bombycites, but in point of fact belonging to the Geometrites. |