ol' AMATID.E. 



*230 e. Hyalaethea solomonis, n. n. 



Hyalaethea meeki, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 439 (1900), nee p. 429, & xix. 

 p. 376, pi. iv. f. 24. 



5 . Head and thorax orange, the dorsum of thorax with some 

 black-brown ; antenna? black ; legs banded with blackish ; abdomen 

 black-brown with orange bands on each segment. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown ; the base of inner margin 

 with some orange ; black-brown fasciae from the ceil to termen 

 between veins 6 and 5 and 3 and 2 ; the terminal band expanding 

 somewhat at apex. Hind wing hyaline ; the cell, basal half of 

 costal area, and inner area to near termen orange ; the terminal 

 half of costal area, vein 2, and the termen black-brown. 



Hob. Solomons, Guadalcanal' {Meek), type f $ in Coll. 

 Eothschild. JExp. 32 millim. 



*230y. Hyalaethea georgiensis. 



Hyalaethea metaplisea, georgiensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 440 (1910), 



& xix. p. 376, pi. iv. ff. 26, 27. 

 Hyalaethea decipiens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii, p. 440 (1910). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown shot with blue ; 

 palpi at tips and frons white; shoulders with orange patches; 

 pectus, coxa?, femora, and the fringes of scales on fore legs creamy 

 white ; abdomen with small subdorsal yellow spots on basal 

 segment and lateral and ventral bands on each segment. Fore 

 wing black-brown with a faint bluish gloss ; a wedge-shaped 

 hyaline patch in cell, elongate triangular patch in submedian 

 interspace, and elongate spots above veins 0, 4, 3. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a bluish gloss ; the lobe on inner margin white ; 

 hyaline spots below the cell and above vein 2. 



Hub. Solomons, New Georgia (Meek), type f d and type 

 decipiens in Coll. Eothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



231 a. Hyalaethea basigera, Wlk., trans, from Syntomis, 

 no. 151, and insert : — 



Amata basigera, gilolensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 434 (1910), & xix. 

 p. 375, pi. iii. f. 19. 



Male with the two hyaline spots on hind wing almost absent, 

 female with them entirely absent. 



Moluccas, Gilolo (Doliertij, Wafers/ rail 't), type f 2 i 11 Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



*231 b. Hyalaethea simillima. 



Amata simillima, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 434 (1910), & xix. p. 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 20. 



2- Head and thorax black-brown; frons pale yellow; tegulse 

 and upper edge of patagia orange ; pectus and legs suffused witli 



