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15. Zygaenopsis flaviceps sp. uov. 



(J ¥ . Black, head, pronotum, first antenual segment, and the whole underside 

 inclusive of legs and palpns, deep chrome yellow, meso-metanotnm and middle 

 tergites of abdomen either yellow or black, tibiae blackish at end on the upperside. 



\V'iiigs as in the preceding. Fomi'ii>g : with a large deep chrome yellow patch 

 at base along inner margin ; costal margin yellow at base on the underside. 



Clasper with the sinus small and shallow, no prominent lobes. 



Length of forewing : 11 to 12 mm. 



((■ 7i. flaviceps flaviceps. 



t? ? . Abdomen and meso-metanotum black, mesonotum yellow in front, seldom 

 more extended yellow ; in the single ? also metanotnm clothed with yellow scales. 

 In this ? the yellow patch of the right forewing extends to near apex of SM-, 

 while on the left wing it is normal, occupying only the basal third nf the inner 

 margin. 



Hab. Batjan, March 1892 (W. Doherty), 10 Jc?, 1 ?. 



Type: S. 



h. Z. flaviceps cingulata snlwp. nov. 



cJ. Sternites 2 to 4 of abdomen more or less, and the whole thorax, yellow. 

 Hab. Ternate, May 1892 (W. Doherty), 3 SS. 



16. Zygaenopsis lata sp. nov. 



S . First antennal segment and body deep chrome yellow, mesonotum partly 

 fnscons, foretibia with some black scales. Forewing broader than in the 

 other species, costa more arched, a large yellow basal patch reaching to SC, 

 followed by another yellow spot as in papua — this spot, however, larger than 

 in pnpi/a, reacliing nearly to anal angle. 



Length of forewing : 12 mm. 



Ha6. Fergusson 1., d'Entrecasteaux Is., November 1894 (A. S. Meek), 1 ?. 



IT. Zygaenopsis meecki sp. nov. 



S ? . Body deep chrome yellow, face luteons, occiput, 'tip of palpus, antenna 

 (underside of first segment excepted), thorax above, first and seventh (c?) 

 abdominal tergite black, fore- and midtibiae fnscons above, first abdominal tergite 

 yellow in middle, seventh yellow in ?. Forewing similar to that oi' //avibasis, 

 veins less prominent, outer marginal border narrower towards M-, interspaces 

 between costal edge and cell diaphanous, a spot upon cross-veins, two yellow spots : 

 one basal, larger than in J^aci basis, the other widely separated from it at end of SM-. 



Sinus of clasper deep, upper lobe broad, lower one triangular, acute, horizontal, 

 somewhat curving inwards. 



Length of forewing : 10 to 12 mm. 



Hab. Milne Bay, Brit. N. Guinea, xi. xii. 1898, i. 1899 (A. S. Meek), 

 3 <JcJ, 1 ?. Type:' 6. 



