RHODOGASTKIA. ~>'2~> 



ending in a whitish mark on termen. Hind wing with the base 

 brownish white, the rest of wing fuscous brown. 



Rab. Be. X. Guinea, Mt. Kebea, (Pratt), 1 d, 1 $, Ekeikei 

 ( Pratt), 1 d , 1 2 . Avola (Pratt), 1 d , Mafalu (Pratt), 1 d , Sogeri 

 Id- Exp. 60-64 millim. Type f in Coll. Bethune -Baker. 



2119. Rhodogastria croceri, insert : — 



Ehodogastria novobritannica, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 184 (1910). 



A form from New Britain ; thorax with the black spots larger ; 

 fore wing more dusky with the hyaline spot in the cell almost 

 obsolete, the area beyond the cell semihyaline not hyaline; hind 

 wing semihyaline edged with brownish. 



New Britain, type f d , $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



Ehodogastria salomonis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 184 (1910), & xviii. \ 1. 6. 

 f. 19. 



A form from the Solomon Is. ; antenna) with the basal fourth 

 crimson, the black spots on bead and thorax large, the patagia edged 

 with white on (inter side; fore wing darker. 



Solomon Is., Guadalcanal- I., Florida I., Guizo I., Tulagi I., 



type f d , 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 



subsp. kajana, Bryk, Arch. Naturg. lxxix. A. 6. p. 126 (1913). 

 Khodogastria 'pa'puana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 333 (1916). 



"Germ. N. Guinea," Vulcan I. (Meek), type f d papuana 



in Coll. Rothschild. 



Ehodogastria similUma, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 485 (1917). 



Fore legs with the tibiie at extremity and the whole tarsus above 

 crimson, the antenna? with the base of shaft crimson as in the 

 typical form, the fore wing with the hyaline spot in the cell almost 

 obsolete, the hind wing with the inner area brownish white. 



Bismarck Arch., Rook I. (Meek), type f d in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. 



*2119 a. Ehodogastria erythropus. (Plate LXIX. fig. 14.) 



Ehodogastria erythropus, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 485 (1917). 



$ . Head and thorax dark grey-brown, the back of head and a 

 spot behind the tegulas crimson, the frons above and vertex of bead 

 with black spots, the tegulae dorsally and at shoulders, the patagia 

 near base and at shoulders, the prothorax above base of patagia, 

 and the pro-, meso-, and metathorax dorsally with paired black 

 spots, the antenna? black, the shaft towards base and basal joint 

 crimson, the palpi crimson with black spots on each joint ; abdo- 

 men deep crimson ; pectus and legs deep crimson, the fore and mid 

 tibia? striped with black above; ventral surface of abdomen grev- 

 white, the basal segment tinged with crimson' at sides, the two 

 terminal segments with black bands, lateral maculate black stripes 

 with short whitish streaks before the stigmata and crimson streaks 



