EHODOGASTBIA. 519 



the base of 2nd and 3rd joints, basal joint of antennae, and tegulse 

 below crimson ; antennae black ; the joints of palpi, frons, vertex 

 of head, tegulse, shoulders, patagia, pro-, meso-, and metathorax 

 with paired black spots; crimson streaks below base of wings and 

 on legs; abdomen dorsally crimson with the base of first lour 

 segments yellowish; lateral and sublateral series of black spots. 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale brown with two small 

 black spots at base ; a hyaline spot in upper angle of cell ; discoidal 

 bar blackish; a hyaline patch beyond the cell between veins 7 and 

 3 expanding nearly to ternien below vein 5. Hind wing with 

 whitish mark in and beyond end of cell interrupted \>y the blackish 

 discoidal spot; the inner area yellowish. 



2 • Thorax whiter ; abdomen with the dorsum wholly crimson ; 

 wings with the ground-colour much whiter. 



Hub. " Geem. N. Guinea," Vulcan I. (Meek), typef 6 

 tenebrosa in Coll. Rothschild; Queensland, Kuranda, Towns- 

 ville (Dodd), 1 tf , 1 $, typef d, $ in Coll. Turner; N. Aus- 

 tealta, Melville I. Exp., 6 62, $ 64 millim. 



*2113 d. Rhodogastria communis. (Plate LXVII1. fig. 24.) 

 Creatonotus communis, Wlk. xxxi. 283 (1804). 



d" . Head white with black points above frons and on vertex ; 

 palpi crimson with black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints; antennae 

 black, crimson towards base; thorax whitish tinged with brown, 

 the tegulse, patagia, pro-, meso-, and me ta thorax with paired black 

 points; pectus suffused with crimson; legs crimson, the femora 

 streaked with brownish white, the fore and mid tibia? with fuscous ; 

 abdomen with the basal half ochreous, the terminal half crimson, 

 the ventral surface brownish white. Eore wing whitish suffused 

 with pale brown, the apical area tinged with fuscous ; two black 

 points at base of cell and one on costa ; a fuscous brown discoidal 

 bar ; the extremity of cell and a large patch beyond it between 

 veins 7 and 3 semibvaline wdiite, its outer edge sinuous and below 

 vein 5 extending to towards ternien. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with pale brown, the cell and interspaces beyond it to near ternien 

 semihyaline white. 



Hab. Bueu {Wallace), type t 6 in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 68 millim. 



*2113e. Rhodogastria rufitarsus. 



Rhodogastria rufitarsus, Eotlis. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 485 (1919). 



<$ . Head and thorax brownish white, the back of head and 

 edges of teguhe narrowly crimson, the frons above and vertex of 

 head with black spots, the teguhe dorsally and at shoulders, the 

 patagia, prothorax above base of patagia and dorsally, the meso- 

 and metathorax with paired black spots, the antenna? black, the 

 shaft towards base and basal joint crimson, the palpi crimson with 



