• fl AMATID.T]. 



scales on inner side ; mid and hind tibia? with the spurs short. Fore wing 

 with veins 2, 3 from a point long before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 

 from long below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 

 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3, 4 absent ; 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked, 

 6 curved downwards. 



In key differs from Desmidocnemis in the palpi being porrect ; fore wing 

 with veins 2, 3 from a point and 11 stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10. 



*230 a. Paralsethia subformicina. 



Ceryx subformicina, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 382 (1904). 



cS . Head and thorax black-brown; irons yellowish white; 

 tegulse, patagia, and metathorax with yellowish white patches ; i'ore 

 legs yellowish on inner side ; abdomen black -brown ; subbasal 

 yellowish white spots at base, the other segments with yellowish 

 white bands except on ventral surface. Fore wing black-brown ; a 

 wedge-shaped yellowish hyaline patch filling the cell and another the 



Fig. 8. — Paralsetliia subformicina, $ . '-. 



submedian interspace and extending to below vein 1 beyond middle, 

 some pale yellow above base of vein 1 ; elongate yellowish hyaline 

 patches above veins 7, 6, 4, 3. Hind wing with the cell pale 

 yellow ; yellowish hyaline patches in submedian interspace and 

 above vein 2 ; the underside with the cell and costal area to beyond 

 middle pale yellow. 



Hah. Br.'N. Guinea, Up. Aroa E. {Meek), type f d in Coll. 

 Eothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus HYAL^THEA, insert :— 



Type. 



Paraceryx, Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 383 (1904) aroa. 



Sect. I. (Paraceryx.) Fore tibiae and tarsi of male fringed with long hair 

 and scales on both sides. 



230 b. Hyalaethea aroa. 



Paraceryx aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 383 (1904). 



<3 . Head and thorax black ; shoulders with yellow patches ; 

 fore legs with the fringes of hair brownish ; abdomen blue-black 

 with small orange lateral spots on first two segments, and some 



