124 8TNT0MID.E. 



expanded into a large roughly scaled lobe ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 

 4 absent ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; a small tuft of scales from thorax at base of 

 hind wing. 



A. Hind wing mostly orange woodfordi. 



B, Hind wing black and hyaline metajahcBa. 



231. Hyalaethea woodfordi. 



Hyalathea woodfordi, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xis. p. 216 (1887) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 103. 



c? . Frons, tegulae, and patagia fulvous orange ; antennae, vertex 

 of head, and thorax black ; abdomen fulvous orange, with six black 



bands and the anal tuft black. 

 Fore wing black shot with 

 piirple ; an elongate hyaline 

 patch below the cell from 

 base nearly to outer margin ; 

 a wedge-shaped patch occu- 

 pying the cell ; an elongate 

 Fig. 45. — Hyalcethea woodjordi, cJ . \. spot above vein 6 and two 



spots between veins 3 and 5. 

 Hind wing with a small hyaline spot above base of vein 2, with a 

 speck above its extremity between veins 3 and 5 ; the costa towards 

 apex and apical part of termen black. 



5 with the orange on hind wing restricted to basal area and 

 emitting a spur outwards above vein 2 ; no hyaline points. 



Hah. Solomon Is., A] u {Woodford),! S type; Halmaheika, $ 

 Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 32 miUim. 



*232. Hyalathea metaphsea. (Plate V. fig. 22.) 

 Hyalcethea metaphcea, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 147 (1898). 



5 . Black ; frons and patches on tegulse, metathorax, and pectus 

 orange ; abdomen with orange dorsal band on 1st segment, the other 

 segments slightly fringed with orange. Fore wing with elongate 

 hyaline patch below cell and vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped patch in cell 

 and elongate patches above veins 3, 4, and 6. Hind wing with 

 hyaline patch below the cell and between veins 2 and 3, extending 

 slightly into cell. 



Hah. Solomons, Guadalcanar {Woodford). Exp. 36 millim. 

 Typet in Coll. Druce. 



Genus EPITOXIS. ^ 



Type. 



Epitoxis, Wallengr. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 138 (1863) amazoula. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi hairy, not reaching beyond the frons, which 

 is hairy ; antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated distally ; 

 tibiaj with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked or from cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the costa excised at middle; vein 2 

 from well before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked or from angle of cell ; 4 and 7 

 absent. 



