r 209 ) 



hrondpr tlmn in suhorellata. oontinned on to the mctanotnin, wliero the stripe is 

 liroad. Annl angle of hindwing ^tronsrly prodneed. Grey marginal area ofl'orewing- 

 lielow r(>arhing to ."\1' or M-. 



S. Tenth sternite with triangnlar lohes whieh are divergent (PI. XXIII. f. la) ; 

 apex of harpe olitnse. 



? . See above. 



[I((b. New Guinea. 



In the Tring Mnsetiai .5 c?c?, 1 ? from: Hmnboldt Bay, Dutch N. G., Sep- 

 tember, Oetoher {\\ . Doherty) ; Dorey, Jnne (W. Doherty) : Kapanr, February 

 (W. Doherty) : Jit. Alexander to Mt. Nisbet, British N. G. (Anthony) : Fergusson 

 Island, December (Meek) ; Sudest, April (Meek). 



The individual from Sudest is more greyisii on the forewing fhan the others. 



//. ('. (Inhrrtyi salomonis subsp. nov. 



S . Meso-metanotnm without greenish olive stripe, but with some white hair- 

 scales indicating tiic edges of the stripe; subraarginal line of forewing less regularly 

 curved than in the New Guinea form, slightly undulate lieyond R- : white marginal 

 area of imderside beginning at SO'' and stopping a little beyond W. Lobes of tenth 

 tergite broad, close together : harpe more acutely triangular distally than in rhh. 

 (lohcrftii. 



? . Not known. 



1M>. Guadalcanar, Solomon Is.. April 1 901 fA. S. Meek), 1 S in the Tring 

 .Museum. 



LII. RHADINOPASA.— Typus: hornimani. 



Biuiiiiia, Druce (min Walker, 18jG), E„l. Mo. Mag. xil p. 208 (1880). 

 Rhadiiiopam Karsch, Ent. Nadu: xvii. p. 14 (1891) (type : hornimnni^udei). 

 R}inir,nops'<st (!), Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. G74 (1892)." 



S " . Tongue short and weak. A tuft of long hair-scales behind eye. Palpus 

 long, l)ut not projecting ; second segment more than three times as long as broad, 

 compressed, joint not open. Antenna slender, sub-andromorphic in ? ; end-segment 

 short, penultimate one liigher than long. Abdominal tergites densely spinose .ill 

 over, apical spines more tawny, stronger chitinised. Tibiae nof spinose ; spurs 

 very unecpial, two pairs to hindtiliia, long terminal spur about one-third the length 

 of tlie first tarsal segment : tarsi very slender and long, hindtarsus half as long 

 again as the cell of the hindwing measured along SO, first segment as long as 

 the tibia, longer than the four others together, terminal segment rather shorter 

 than the fourth. Distal margins of wings entire ; ape.v of forewing truncate ; 

 D' of hindwing curved, not longer than D'', lower angle of cell not very acute, 

 costal margin convex, apex obtusely pointed. Clasper and eighth tergite without 

 friction-scales. 



Larva spinose (see below), with round iiead and short horn. 



Pupa glossy, abdominal tergites punctured, densely so at the bases, steruites 

 more smooth ; cremuster short, obtuse, without tubercles or points ; tongue-case 

 much shorter than cases of forelegs. 



2ialj. West Africa. 



One species. 



Easily distinguished from ( 'ticnis and Polypt<ich(H by the non-sj>inose tiliiae 

 and the truncate apex of forewing. 



