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Neu/ralion : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular inangulated ; 

 first median at two-thirds, second and third from end of cell ; lower radial from above 

 the middle of discocellular, upper from upper angle ; last four subcostals stalked, the 

 second rising just before the fifth, the first free. Hindwings with last two medians and 

 two subcostals stalked. Scaling thick and woolly. 

 Type : Halteroiihora hicolor sp. nov. 



■11. Halterophora bicolor sp. no\-. 



Fwexvings : dull green; the costa striated fuscous and white; the lines 

 indicated by deeper green shades and marked by white dots on the veins, the lowest 

 joined to one on the inner margin; fringe mottled alternately fuscous and white; 

 cell-spot round, black. 



Hindtrinr/s : the same, without the basal dots. 



Head, face, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dull green ; the latter with anal 

 segment, sides, and dorsal spots white ; antennae brown and white ; metathoracic tuft 

 ochreous. Underside of forewings pale green ; costa yellowish, striated with brown ; 

 cell-spot dark ; fringe as above ; underside of hindwings white ; pectus and femora of 

 legs green ; tarsi white, spotted with fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



Four (J c? from Fergusson Island, October to December. 



42. Heinithea pictifimbria sp. nov. 



Forewings : glaucous green, with the two lines whitish, as in If. insulnria Guen. 

 and tritonaria Wlk. ; the costa yellowish, with sparse dark striae ; hindmargiu with 

 a thick dark purplish Une, interrupted by white wedge-shaped spots ; fringe yellow 

 and fuscous, with a yellowish basal line, and dark spots opposite the white dots. 



Hindunngs : like forewings, with dark green cell-spot and no basal line. 



Thorax and abdomen yellowish green, the latter with very slender pale red- 

 edged tufts; vertex and shaft of antennae white; face and palpi dark red-brown. 

 Underside yellowish green, the costa of both wings yellowish ; hindwings with an 

 oblong black-brown blotch at apex ; forewings with the extreme hindmargin and 

 fringe at anal angle brown. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



Three S S from Fergusson Island, October to December. 



43. Hemithea subflavida sp. nov. 



Foreiuings : dull green, the costa spotted fuscous and ochreous; the lines 

 denoted by thick darker green shades at one-third and two-thirds, wavy and denticu- 

 late ; fringe green, with slightly darker green marginal line. 



. Hindwings : the same, without the first line ; cell-mark linear, dark green. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; abdomen without any dor.sal red marks 

 or tufts ; face and palpi olive-brown. Underside of forewings pale gilded green ; of 

 hindwings whitish green, with an olive-brown blotch at apex. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One (S from Fergusson Island, October. 



Metallochlora gen. nov. 

 A development of Hemithea. witii which it agrees in neuration and in the 

 structure of the antennae ; differing in the hind tibiae of the J having four sj)urs 



