DAIJANTASIA. — HELIOSIA. 58S 



*57oe. Darantasia cyanifera, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 6.) 



d . Head and thorax yellow ; fore tibiae and tarsi brown ; abdomen 

 yellow with dorsal black-brown patch on medial segments. Fore wing 

 with the basal area yellow with oblique sinuous outer edge, the rest 

 of wing black-brown suffused with brilliant metallic blue leaving 

 the costal edge yellow and the apical area yellow narrowing to a 

 point at vein 3 and with curved slightly waved inner edge. Hind 

 wing yellow, the costal area broadly suffused with fuscous brown 

 from middle to apex, the cilia beyond it yellow. Underside of fore 

 wing fuscous brown with the basal and apical areas yellow. 



lLuh. Ba. N. Guinea, Mambare II., Biagi {Meek), type t 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



*577 a. Heliosia eurochrysa, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 7.) 



$. Head and teguke golden yellow; antenna?, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing golden yellow ; the base 

 dark red-brown ; the terminal area bright red-brown, narrowing to 

 tornus and defined on inner side by an incurved blackish line 

 suffused with metallic blue. Hind wing reddish brown. Underside 

 of fore wing red-brown. 



Sab. Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi K. (Meek), type t § in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 14 millim. 



old a. Heliosia micra. (Plate XXXI. fig. S.) 



Heliona micra., Hnipsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 345 (1903). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing orange- 

 yellow with indistinct waved antemedral, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines formed of dark scales. Hind wing pale } r ellow. 



Sab. Queexsla>~i>, Cedar Bay (Meek), 1 <j type. Exp. 12 



millim. 



*579 b. Heliosia aurantia. (Plate XXXI. fig. 9.) 

 Rhag&phanes aurantia, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 218 (1912). 



<3 . Head and thorax deep orange-yellow ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing deep orange-yellow sparsely 

 irrorated with black scales ; a blackish subbasal bar from costa ; 

 antemedial line rather diffused, blackish, angled inwards in cell 

 and on vein 1 ; a narrow diffused incurved blackish medial band ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, diffused, blackish, angled inwards below 

 costa, then excurved ; an indistinct diffused blackish subterminal 

 line, excurved below costa and obsolete below middle and towards 

 inner margin. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside of fore wing 

 pale yellow. 



Hid). Bit. X. Guinea, Mambare K., Biagi (Meek), type f d in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 16 millim. 



