274 ARCTIAD^, 



*572. Darantasia goldei. (Plate XXV. fig. 19.) 

 Darantasia c/oMei, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 212 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; antennge brown ; fore legs 

 marked with brown ; abdomen brown, the last two segments 

 yellow. Fore wing brown shot with blue ; the base yellow, 

 emitting short streaks on costa and median nervure, and a streak to 

 beyond middle on vein 1 ; an oblique postmedial rather wedge- 

 shaped patch from just beyond costa to vein 3, and another on 

 termcn ending at vein 1. Hind wing brown, with large yellow 

 patch in, beyond, and below cell. 



Hal. N, Guinea, Port Moresby (Goldie), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 

 Ecvjy. 24 millim. 



*573. Darantasia xenodora. (Plate XXV. fig. 20.) 



Peronetis xenodora, Meyr. P. Linn. See. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 242 (1886) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 300. 



cJ . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; antennae blackish, tinged 

 with yellow towards extremity ; abdomen black, the terminal three 

 segments orange-yellow ; fore tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Pore wing 

 black shot with purple ; an orange-yellow streak on basal third of 

 costa, expanding into a patch at base ; a slender streak in submedian 

 fold to beyond middle ; an oblique postmedial band from below costa 

 to vein 2, its outer edge rounded ; a triangular subapical patch 

 from below costa to vein 3, its -inner edge excised. Hind wing 

 btlack , a subquadrate orange-yellow patch from below costa to near 

 termen below middle, its inner edge indented in cell. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Fly Elver. Exp. 22 millim. Figured from 

 drawing in Coll. Meyriek. 



*574. Darantasia triplagiata. (Plate XXV. fig. 21.) 



Darantasia triplagiata, Holl. ined, 



5 . Head orange ; frons with black spot ; tegulse and patagia 

 fuscous edged with orange ; pectus and legs orange and fuscous ; 

 abdomen with the basal half fuscous above, the terminal half and 

 pectus orange ; wings fuscous brown. Fore wing with orange 

 streak on base of median nervure ; an orange fascia below basal 

 third of costa, followed by an irregular elongate spot ; a wedge- 

 shaped subterminal patch extending from below costa to vein 2. 



Hah. BouEou (JJoherty). Exp. 24 millim. Typef 2 in Coll. 

 Holland. 



575. Darantasia caerulescens. (Plate XXV. fig. 22.) 



Darantasia ccsrukscens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 213 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax orange ; antennae black ; legs orange, the 

 tibiae and tarsi streaked with black ; abdomen black, the last four 

 segments orange. Fore wiiig black, strongly shot with purple ; 

 short orange basal fascia) on costa, median nervure, and inner 



