526 i.rriiosiADT.. 



on terminal segments. Fore wing brownish grey, the interspaces 



beyond the cell between veins 7 and :} grey-white, the veins dark ; 

 a strong fuscous black discoidal bar ; the costal area beyond the 

 cell and apical area to vein 3 fuscous black, its inner edge irregu- 

 larly waved. Hind wing white, the area below the cell and vein 2 

 tinged with brown, the veins dirk; a crimson tinge at base of inner 

 in irgin; the costa and apex fuscous brown, narrowing to a point at 

 vein 3. 



c? . Hind wing with the inner area tinned with flesh-pink. 



Hub. Bismarck Arch., Rook I. (Meek), type t 2 m Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 76 millim. 



12120. RliDdogastria astreas, del. Noctua eugenia, Chelonia 

 madagascariensis, Amerila rhodopa, Creatonotus communis, 

 Amerila vitrea, Rhodogastria fraterna, Amerila bauri, 

 & Amerila phcedra. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 76. pi. 108. f. 1 ; Piepers, Tijd. v. Eut. 

 xlviii. p. 194. 



Head yellow-green, large, shining, with a black patch at >ides ; 

 body dull green with series of black points with white hairs rising 

 from them. Food-plant, Beaumont ia. 



Pupa. Dark brown, large, shining, not forming a cocoon. 



subsp. hainana, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 1S5 (1910). 



Burma, Tounghoo (Watson), 1 $; Hainan, Chang-mai, type f 

 2 in Coll. Rothschild ; Cocinx China. 



subsp. curtisi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 185 (1910). 



Smaller and darker. 



Penang (Curtis), type f d > 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. t 

 <5 50, 2 56 millim. 



Rhodogastria communis, minor, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 3.'i3 (1916). 



"German X. Guinea," Vulcan I. (Meek) ; Bismarck Arch., 

 Admiralty Is., Manus (Meek), type f J in Coll. Rothschild. 



2120 a. Rhodogastria bauri. (Plate LXIX. fig. 15.) 



.-1,/' trila bawri, Bfoschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 2S9, pi. 16. 

 f. 2 (1884). 



Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous ; palpi crimson above, 

 the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints black, antenna- black, crim- 

 en towards base and with black spot on basal joint ; irons and 

 vertex of head with black spots ; tegulse with black spots at side>, 

 the patagia dorsally and at sides with black spots, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with paired black spots; legs streaked with crimson, the 

 fore coxae and pectus with black spots; abdomen pale crimson, the 

 ventral surface brownish ochreous lateral and sublateral series ol 



