640 ARCTIADJE. 



bands ; spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a subterminal 

 band expanding towards costa and torn us and emitting a streak to 

 termen at middle ; a terminal band. Hind wing fuscous black ; a 

 triangular white patch below and beyond end of cell with a small 

 spot below it above tornus. 



$ . Hind wing with large rather triangular white patch from 

 medial part of costa to above tornus, a minute blackish spot at 

 upper angle of cell. 



Hah. SolomostIs., Isabel I. (Meek), 1 J , 1 ? . Exp. 32 millim. 

 Type t 8 in Coll. Rothschild. 



708 a. Meteugoa melanoleuca. (Plate XXXII. fig. 29.) 



Meteugoa melanoleuca, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 1S4 (1901). 



c? . Palpi not reaching vertex of head. Black ; head, tegulae, 

 patagia, fore and mid legs irroraterl with white scales. Fore wing 

 with white antemedial band very broad at inner margin, narrowing 

 to costa ; a white subapical spot. Hind wing with white band 

 extending from near base to beyond middle and not reaching inner 

 margin. 



Rab. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 6 type. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus CASTRONIA. 



Type. 



Castronia, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912, p. 420 apostata. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, very small ; antennae of male 

 bipectinate with long' branches to apex ; hind tibial with two pairs of minute 

 spurs. Fore wing- with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 stalked, 9 absent; 10, 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from well above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Eutelesia in the proboscis being aborted and the hind 

 wing with veins 6, 7 from the cell. 



711 a. Castronia apostata. 



, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi 

 D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912 



cT . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the back of head 



Tessellota apostata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 227 (1905). 

 Castronia collaris, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912, p. 421. 



Fig. 197. — Castronia apostata, 8. \. 



with two yellow patches ; tegulse yellow ; abdomen with lateral 

 orange fasciae on terminal segments and the extremity orange. 



