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white bands, the anal tuft with some whitish below. Forewing yellowish hyaline, 

 the veins and margins narrowly black with a purplish gloss, the base with a 

 nietalUc blue gloss ; the discoidal bar narrow and glossed with metallic blue, 

 narrowly edged on outer side with golden yellow. Hindwing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins narrowly black with a purplish gloss. Underside of forewing with 

 a narrow golden-yellow streak below costa to beyond the cell, the discoidal bar 

 more strongly edged with yellow ; cilia of both wings with some yellow scales 

 at tips. 



New Britain, Kiningunang (Ribbe), 1 S type in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 26 

 mill. 



(14) Paranthrene rangoonensis. 



t Argeria rangoonensis Swinh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890. p. 1C5. 

 Burma, Rangoon, Bliamo. 



(15) f * Paranthrene flavifrons n. sp. 



<J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown slightly glossed with blue, the 

 antennae with the basal joint yellow except above, the frons yellow with a blackish 

 patch at middle, the palpi with the base and the 2nd joint in front yellow, 

 the neck wdth yellow ring, white behind the eyes, the patagia at extremity, the 

 metathorax at sides and the abdomen at base with some yellow scales ; pectus 

 and fore coxae with yellow patches, the fore tarsi yellowish, the mid and hind 

 tibiae with some yellow at middle and extremities ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 wdth yellowish white bands on two basal segments. Forewing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins narrowly black -brown, the discoidal bar oblique. Hindwing hyaline , 

 the veins and margins narrowly black -brown. 



Dntch N. Guinea, Humbolt Bay (Doherty), 1 3 type in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 34 mill. 



(16) f Paranthrene albifrons n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -browoi with a slight purplish gloss, the 

 frons white, the palpi white tinged with yellow, the neck with some yellow hair 

 above, white behind the eyes and below, the shoulders with orange-yellow patches, 

 the metathorax with some orange-yellow at sides ; the abdomen with orange- 

 yellow bands on 2nd and 4th segments ; fore coxae white at base, the tarsi 

 white at extremity, the mid and hind tibiae with some orange-yellow hair at 

 middle and extremities, the tarsi slightly ringed with whitish ; ventral surface 

 of abdomen with five yellowish white bands. Forewing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black -brown with a slight purplish gloss, the discoidal bar oblique, the 

 terminal band expanding towards apex but leaving some hyaline in the fork of 

 veins 7, 8. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black -brown, 

 the discoidal bar narrow, the hair on inner margin white except at base. 



Burma, Rangoon (Noble), 1 <J type, Pegu, Magaree, 1 S- Exp. 34 mill. 



(17) t Paranthrene canarensis n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown, the frons bronze-brown with 



some white at sides and below, the palpi yellow, white behind, the neck with 



white ring, the metathorax with some white at sides ; fore coxae and tarsi with 



some white, the hind tibiae and tarsal joints with some white at extremities. 



