( 3-2 ) 



a p.atcli of lavender-grey scales. Secondary, orange-brown witli a broad black costa, 

 below which is an orange-colon red stripe, slightly increasing in width from the 

 base to the onter margin ; a black spot at the end of the cell, a transverse broad 

 obliqne black stripe beyond the cell, followed by a fine blackish scalloped line 

 edged exteriorly by pale orange-brown ; snbiuargiiial line pale, rather indefinite, 

 marked ont by the veins being scaled with lavender-grey. The veins in both the 

 wings are dark grey beyond the medial area. 



Underside of both wings orange-red, with dark grey veins more or less covered 

 with pale grey scales. Primary with all the pattern above darkly marked out, 

 except the basal and medial lines, which are absent; there is a larger patch of 

 greyish scales at the apex, and the snbniiirginal line below the apex is greyer. 

 Secondary with the stripe beyond the cell very prominent, the black spot at the 

 end of the cell is distinctly pupilled with white, and there is another small black 

 spot nearer the base ; a row of black dots on the veins marks the position of the 

 scalloped line on the npperside ; there is also a slight grey scaling in the apical area. 



Expanse : G'i to 04 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa. 



Type in my collection. Also in the Tring Musenm from the UpinT Aroa 

 Hiver. 



Melanergon gen. nov. 



? . Head hairy, palpi absent. Antennae shortly pectinate with cilia. Legs 

 densely hairy to extremity of tarsus. 



Nenration : Primary, vein 2 from the middle of the cell, 3 from well before 

 angle, 4 from the angle, 6 absent, 0, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 from cell lying 

 directly below 12 at first and almost on Iti for the terminal half; cell very short. 

 Secondary with two internal veins, 2 from near the middle of cell, 3 from before 

 the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 stalked with G and 7, 8 appressed at the base, then 

 quite free. 



Type : M. proserpina spec. nov. 



7. Melanergon proserpina spec. nov. 



?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, hairy and rough. Both wings black 

 above, subdiaphanous, being covered with black hairs, which are shorter in the 

 interspaces of the veins and longer on the veins and margins, with broad diaphauons 

 postmedial band through both wings. 



Expanse : 70 mm. 



llah. Upper Aroa River, February. 



In the Tring Museum. 



8. Hyper cydas caeliloma Turner. 



Two specimens of this insect are in the Tring Musenm from the Aroa liiver, 

 taken one in February and one in April. There is one in the National ("ollection 

 from Kaj)aur, whilst the type is in the Queensland Musenm. It is subject to a 

 good deal of variation. One of the Tring specimens is qniie bright red-brown, 

 with tlie scalloped line strongly accentuated and almost lemon-yellow, in tbe other 

 specimen the line is whitish and the colour browner, whilst the specimen in the 

 British Museum is browner still. 



