Old World LymantriidiB in the National Collection. 395 



PORTHESIA LUTEA. 



BomUjx lutea, Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 574 (1775). 



Forthesia lutea, Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Australia, 1902, 



p. 177. 

 Artaxa cho'ysojjhila, Walker, xxxii, 334 (1865). 

 Foiihesia iolrota, Meyrick, Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Australia, 



1891, p. 194. 

 Ao'taxa iohrota, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W. (2), vii, 



p. 251 (1892). 



2 $ , I ? , Queensland. 3 ^ , Australia, including 

 Walker's type. 1 ^, St. Aignan, Louisiade Islands. 2 $, 

 Kapaur, N. Guinea. 



The Fabrician type and another are in the Banksian 

 Cabinet, both females. Artaxa varians, Walker, doubtfully 

 referred to this species by Turner, and lucifuga, Lucas, have 

 vein 5 of the hind-wings present, and are true Euproctis. 



PORTHESIA FULVONIGRA, nov. 



(J $ . Antennse blackish ; palpi, frons, head, thorax, and fore- 

 wings above ochreous ; hind-wings black with the border Ijroadly 

 ochreous ; abdomen black, anal tuft of female yellow ; body below, 

 legs and wings yellow ; both wings with the interior portions suffused 

 with black. The males somewhat vary ; one has a great deal of 

 blackish suffusion on the fore-wings, another has it slightly, and 

 there is a melanistic variety entirely black above and below, the 

 wings with some yellow in the cilia, the frons, palpi, and legs yellow. 



Expanse of wings ^ 1 inch, $ li% inches. 



Hah. GuADALCANAR IsLAND, Solomons (Meck), 4 ^, 1 $. 



PORTHESIA AURANTIACA. 



Forthesia aurantia<xc, Hmpsn., Moths, Lidia, i, p. 485 

 (1892). 



1 $ , Sikhim (type). 



PORTHESIA STIGMATIFERA. 



Forthesia stigmatifera, Hmpsn., Moths, India, iv, App., 

 p. 491 (1896). 

 1 % , Bhutan (type). 



Genus Euproctis, Hlibn., Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 159 



(1818). 



Zaci2)a, Walker, iv, 790 (1855). 

 Artaxa, Walker, iv, 794. 



