( 320 ) 



inner margin is broadly smoky fnscons. Collax black ; thorax and abdomen smoky 

 fiiscons. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December lM98 (Meek). 



32. Celerena aurata sp. nov. 



(? Foi-ewinrjs : wholly yellow ; costa from base to near middle deep pnrple ; 

 two oblique thick purple lines, the first from the end of the dark costal streak nearly 

 straight to before the anal angle, the second from below three-fourths of costa, 

 slightly sinuous, its lower half being outcurved and bent round near middle of hind- 

 margin ; the apex of wing slightly purplish tinged ; fringe yellow. 



Himhcings : with a single curved purple submarginal line, not reaching anal 

 angle. 



Underside similar, but all the dark markings thicker and blurred. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen yellow ; palpi yellow with the terminal joint purplish ; legs 

 yellow with the joints purplish ; hind-tibiae much thickened with hairs, the tuft at 

 the end on the inner side fuscous purplish : antennae of simply lamellate, with 

 very short bristles, without tuft. 



? differs from S in having the costal streak interrupted before the first cross- 

 line ; in having the second line nearly straight and not so closely approximating to 

 the hindmargin, and the apex not purplish. 



Expanse of wings : S 52 mm. ; ? 48 mm. 



Two c?cj, one ?, from Rossel Island, February 1898 (Meek). 



Allied to C. cana Warr., from Fergusson Island. 



33. Celerena exacta sp. nov. 



Foreioings : deep yellow ; the costa black to middle whence an oblique black 

 bar with diffuse inner edge runs to join the black marginal border above inner 

 margin ; the marginal border occupies one-third of costa, but becomes narrower 

 below middle, its inner edge being strongly curved ; it is traversed along the middle 

 by a distinct curved slaty-blue band. 



ITiiHlwings : yellow, with black hindmarginal border of nearly uniform width 

 throughout, traversed by a slaty-blue band ; the inner edge bluntly rectangular in 

 the middle. 



Underside like upper, but, instead of the oblique bar of forewings, a broad 

 round-edged blotch from costa to median vein only. Head, thorax, and abdomen all 

 yellow : terminal joint of palpi dark. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



One ? from Tugela, Solomon Islands (Woodford). 



Distinguished by the greater obliquity of the bar of forewings, and its inter- 

 ruption on the underside. 



34. Celerena mitis sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale yellow ; costa from base to middle smoky grey, joining a 

 blackish bar from middle to anal angle, slightly curved at costa and with its inner 

 edge diffuse ; hindmargin from anal angle narrowly slaty black and with a crenulate 

 edge as far as vein 4, which then passes obliquely to costa at three-fourths, delimiting 

 a large oblong yellow patch ; fringe paler slaty. 



