316 AECTIAD^. 



patclies on neck scarlet. Fore wing scarlet ; the costal edge blue- 

 black ; a black patch below median nervure from base to middle, 

 shot with blue at base ; the terminal third black with sinuous inner 

 edge, the veins and termen shot with brilliant blue. Hind wing 

 orange, with large basal black patch not extending to costa, with 

 irregular outer edge and some blue at base ; a terminal black band 

 narrowing to tornus and with some blue on termen. 



Hah. Solomons, Guadalcanar, type t 5 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Eccp. 46 millim. 



662. CMonsema tricolor. (Plate XXVII. fig. 14.) 



Exotrocha tricolov, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 235 (1899). 

 Exotrocha tegyra, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 235 (1899). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black with a slight bluish tinge ; 

 tegulse, patagia, throat, and ventral surface of abdomen orange-red, 

 the front part of patagia black in one specimen. Fore wing orange- 

 scarlet with the base black ; a black costal fascia sinuous beyond 

 middle, the outer area black ; the outer edge of the scarlet area 

 rounded from below costa to vein 2, then retracted to below middle 

 of cell and almost erect to inner margin, in one female leaving a 

 narrow black fascia on inner margin. Hind wing orange, the 

 terminal area black ; the outer edge of orange area erect from costa 

 to vein 2, then rounded. 



Hob. N. Guinea, Fergusson I. {Meeh),2 c? ,1 $ , Woodlark (MeeTc), 

 1 (S, Kiriwini (Meek), 1 $ , Dinner I., Trobriand I. Ex^)., J 36, 

 $ 42 miUim. Types t in Coll. Druce. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the produced part of scarlet area much 

 narrower, its extremity oblique below costa and only extending to 

 vein 3. 



Hah. New Beitain, 1 c? . 



663. CMonaema fulvia. 



Fochca fulvia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 509 (1758) ; Olerck, Icones, pi. 55, 



f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 294. 

 Noctua liboria, StoU, Pap. Bxot. iv. 345, D. (1782) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 314. 

 Lithosia laticincta, Wlk. vii. 1683 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 314. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black; tegulte and inner half 



Fig. 226. — Chionmna fulvia, c?. \. 

 of patagia scarlet ; throat and ventral surface of abdomen except 



