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face and palpi brown ; vertex wbite. Underside of forewings pale yellowish green ; 

 of liindwings whitish, with faint greenish marginal fascia. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



Four 6 6 from Fergusson Island, October to December. 



Chrysochloroma gen. nov. 



Foremtigs : ample, triangular ; cosia faintly convex ; hindmargin oblique, 

 imperceptibly elbowed at one-third below apex ; anal angle well expressed. 



Hindiohigs : kite-shaped, the inner margin rather long; hindmargin creiuilate 

 from anal angle to middle, which is slightly angulated. 



Palpi porrect or obliquely upeurved ; the second joint stout, squamous, the third 

 minute; tongue present; antennae of c? thickly pectinated for three-fourths; hind 

 tibiae of c? slightly thickened, with three spurs, the outer median being absent. 



Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular curved ; first 

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

 end of cell ; upper radial stalked with the last four subco.stals ; first subcostal free, but 

 approaching costal ; costal deflexed to costa from the point of ap[)roach ; the second 

 subcostal also approaching first, the first similarly deflexed to costa away from the 

 second ; the latter in its turn deflexed from the point of approach of the stalk of the 

 third and fourth. liindwings with discocellular straight ; the two subcostals and last 

 two medians stalked ; radial from the upper end of cell. 



Type : Chrysochloroma meeki sp. nov. 



38. Chrysochloroma meeki sp. nov. 



Forewings : deep green ; the fringe red-brown, with brighter red base ; first line 

 from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, curved below costa, obscurely 

 yellowish green; second line from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, 

 also bent below costa, yellowish green ; cell-spot small, rust-red. 



Hirahvings : with no first line; the cell-spot much larger; the second Hue 

 curved. 



Palpi and face red-brown above, paler below ; antennae green ; vertex white ; 

 thorax and abdomen green, the latter with small white spots on dorsum. Underside 

 of forewings green on costal half, the rest from the cell becoming orange-yellow; 

 hindwings wholly deep orange-yellow ; fringes of both wings red-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



Three S c? from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March to May. 



Named in honour of the collector. 



oi). Comostola flavicincta sp. nov. 



Foi'ewitiga: apple-green; the costa bright yellow, with a few purple flecks on 

 its lower edge ; first line marked by three ferruginous dots on subcostal, median, and 

 submedian veins, the last the largest, and with a purplish edge internally; exterior 

 line denoted by seven regular ferruginous dots, the lowest the largest, and edged out- 

 wardly with purplish; a large ferruginous spot on discocellular, edged with briglit 

 yellow and centred by a broken metallic streak ; extreme hindmargin and fringe 

 bright yellow, preceded by a bronzy purplish series of contiguous lunules, edged 

 inwardly by a distinct ferruginous line. 



Hindninga : like forewings, but the discal spot larger, with the metallic mark 

 trifid. 



