( 433 ) 



Antenna ochreous, a short proximal part uuicolovous, then with the shaft retl- 

 spotted. Thorax and abdoineu above green, the latter becoming ochreons towards 

 the extremity ; the crests sliining deep red. 



Forewiiiy with SO' free, 8C- arising close before SC'; bright green as mproximatu 

 Warr. and subsp. circumscrijita Warr.,* costal edge ochreous with a few dark dots ; 

 discal dot dark red, a very faintly darker green line (scarcely discernible) rnnning 

 from it to posterior margin, parallel with postmedian ; postmedian line equally 

 faintly darker green, but rendered more apparent by a thicker, slightly paler green 

 shade which accompanies it distally ; nearly straight from costal margin before 

 two-thirds to posterior margin at fully three-fourths ; a rather narrow pale yellow 

 line before tlie terminal, widening midway between the veins and enclosing 



elongate fuscous marks ; terminal line dark, very slender ; fringe rose-pink. 



Hiiulwing moderately angled at 11'; similar to fore wing, without first line, post- 

 median rather less oblique. 



Underside yellow-green, unmarked ; terminal dark marks and pink fringe 

 nearly as aliove. 



Vella Lavella, Solomons, March 190S. Type in coll. Rothschild. 



Differs from proximuta in the more angled hindwing, position and course of 

 postmedian line (on both wings very much further from termen) and the brighter 

 rose-coloured fringes. 



95. Neromia picticosta spec. uov. 



S , 22 mm. Face dark red, lower part ochreous ; vertex pale ochreous ; occiput 

 green. Palpus short, dark red. Autennal shaft pale ochreons, spotted with dark 

 red ; ciliation moderate. Thorax and abdomen dorsally green, abdomen not 

 crested. Fore and middle legs red above and on inner side ; hindtibia not 

 dilated. 



Wings dull bluish green, irrorated with white. Foreicing with costal 



margin pale ochreons, with a dark red basal streak 2 mm. in length, scarcely at all 

 broken into spots, afterwards with a number of rather irregularly distributed red 

 spots, the last close to apex ; two broad whitish lines, the antemediau obsolescent 

 at costa, from before one-third, slightly bent in cell, then vertical to posterior 

 margin at a little beyond one-third; postmedian almost straight, almost parallel 

 with termen, about 2 mm. therefrom ; fringe coucolorous, or slightly paler distally. 



Ilindwiiiti with j)ostmedian continuing that of forewiug, straight to beyond M'-', 



then very sliglitly cui'ved away from toruus and narrowing. 



Underside jialur, especially the posterior part of forewing and entire hindwing ; 

 lines obsolete ; forewing with costal margin as far a.s SC pale ochreous, almost 

 entirely covered with red. 



Antananarivo (f 'iiulliat). Type in coll. L. B. Trout. 



Probably a little faded, being of exactly thi; colour which is assumed by the 

 8pecie8 of the genus Mixocera when they have been on the wing a short time. 

 A hlender, reddish frenulum is present, thus the sjiccies is certainly not a Mixoccra, 

 but iu the absence of the ? it cannot W: positively stated that it may not have to 

 be removed to ('hloriHsn. It may Ije a<lded that ? material in the African species 

 which have been referred to ('Itluii.ssa is much wanted ; i luive recently discovered 

 that one or two are two-spurred, i.e. will have to be transferred to Nfromia. 



• J/. fircuiUKvripta only (MiTerH from proximuta in tlie- -sliglitlj- bi*o;iiii;r \c11<j\v line beforu llic 

 termeD, aaU in jiosnibl}' ouly an ubcrratiou. 



28 



