316 ARCTIADiE. 



patches on neck scarlet. Fore wing scarlet ; the costal edge blue- 

 black ; a black patch below median norvure from base to middle, 

 shot with blue at base ; tlie terminal third black with sinuous inner 

 edge, the veins and termeu shot with brilliant blue. Hind wing 

 orange, with large basal black patch not extending to costa, with 

 irregular outer edge and some blue at base ; a terminal black band 

 narrowing to tornus and with some blue on termen. 



Huh. Solomons, Guadalcauar, type t $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



602. Cliionaema tricolor. (Plate XXYII. fig. 14.) 



Exotrocha tricolor, Druce, A. M. N. 11. (7) iii. p. 23.^) (1899). 

 Exotrocha tcgyra, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 235 (1899). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black with a slight bluish tinge ; 

 tegular, patagia, throat, and ventral surface of abdomen orange-red, 

 the front part of patagia black in one specimen. Fore wing orange- 

 scarlet with the base black ; a black costal fascia sinuous beyond 

 middle, the outer area black ; the outer edge of the scarlet area 

 rounded from below costa to vein 2, then retracted to below middle 

 of cell and almost erect to inner margin, in one female leaving a 

 narrow black fascia on inner margin. Hind wing orange, the 

 terminal area black ; the outer edge of orange area erect from costa 

 to vein 2, then rounded. 



Hah. N. Gttinka, Fergusson I. (Med-), 2 c? , 1 $ , Woodlark {MeeTc\ 

 1 S , Kiriwini {Med-), 1 $ , Dinner I., Trobriand I. Exp., J 36, 

 $ 42 millim. Types t in Coll. Druce. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the produced part of scarlet area much 

 narrower, its extremity oblique below costa and only extending to 

 vein 3. 



Uab. New Bkitain, 1 c? . 



663. CMonsema fulvia. 



Ifoctua fulvia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5U9 (1758) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. 55. 



f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilct'. p. 294. 

 Noctt(a lihoria, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. 345, D. (1782) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 314. 

 Lithosia laticincia, Wlk. vii. 1683 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 314. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; teguloc and inner half 



Fig. 226. — C'hioncema fulvia, (^ . \. 

 of patagia scarlet ; throat and ventral surface of abdomen except 



