NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 107 



Sect. V. Antennae of male simple. 



A. Abdomen of male with the anal tuft bifurcate. 



(42) t Paranthrene mesothyris n. sp. 

 (J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the vertex of head with some chestnut- 

 red hair, the antennae chestnut-red below, the palpi chestnut-red, the 1st joint 

 yellow above and below, the neck wiih yellow ring, the patagia chestnut-red with 

 some yellow hairs at extremity, the abdomen sufifused with chestnut-red, with 

 fine yellow bands on 2nd, 4th, and 6th segments and the anal tuft fiery red 

 at middle and below ; pectus with yellow patches below the shoulders ; fore 

 legs with the coxae, femora, and tibiae above chestnut-red, the tarsi red mixed 

 with some yellow ; mid and hind legs with some chestnut-red and whitish hair 

 on femora below, the tibiae and tarsi chestnut-red with the spurs white. Fore- 

 wing deep chestnut-red, the terminal area with a purple gloss ; a fan of black 

 scales tipped with chrome-yellow at base of cell ; a wedge-shaped yellowish 

 hyaline mark in middle of cell ; a yellowish hyaline bar beyond the discocellulars 

 above bases of veins 8, 6, 5. Hindwing hyaline, the base obliquely, the costa, 

 a diseoidal bar, and the veins chestnut-red ; a narrow dark bro-mi terminal band 

 tinged mth chestnut-red, its inner edge slightly angled inwards at vein 2 ; ciUa 

 with a leaden gloss. Underside brighter chestnut ; forewing with the costal 

 area to towards apex yellow, the median nervure and a diseoidal striga yellow ; 

 hindwing with the costa yellow to end of cell. 



?. Palpi without yellow on basal joint, the ring round neck chestnut-red, 

 the patagia without chestnut-red or yellow, the abdomen without chestnut-red 

 or yellow rings, the anal tuft fulvous ; pectus without yellow below the shoulders, 

 the legs with less red and the spurs not white ; forewing black -b^o^vn with 

 hardly a trace of red or purple, without the yellow mark at base or the hyaline 

 marks ; hindwing with the dark areas black -brown with hardly a trace of red. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Bell-Marley), 1 <?, 1 $type bred, Lr. Umkomass (Leigh) 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. S 30, $ 32 mill. 



B. Abdomen of male with the anal tuft not bifurcate. 



(43) Paranthrene scintillans. 



t Phloijothanmn sdnliUnnx Rut.l.. A.M.N.H. (5) x. p. 2.S8 (1882). 

 New Britain. 



(44) * Paranthrene charlesi. 



Parar.threne charlesi he Ceri,Oberth. £t. Ley. Comp. xii. i. pi. 376 f. 3144 (1916) ; id. l.r. xiv. p. 255. 

 Dutch W. Guinea. 



(45) * f Paranthrene leucocera n. sp. 

 ?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown with a slight bluish gloss, the 

 antennae creamy white from two-thirds length to near tips, ringed with black 

 below ; palpi with the 2nd joint yellowish white in front ; fore tarsi ochreous 

 white from near base to near tips. Forewing black-brown strongly suffused 

 with brilliant silvery blue except the costal area and termen which have a slight 

 greenish gloss ; a wedge-shaped hyaline subterminal patch between veins 6 and 

 3, intersected by the black veins and with its upper edge excised. Hindwing 



