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Eook Island, August 1913 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Tring Mas. 

 Related to oxycentra Meyr. and syntyehe Prout, distinguished by the large red 

 discal dots, etc. ; ornatissiina Warr. is smaller, lacks the white costa, etc. 



Metallothea gen. no v. 



Characters of Metallochlora Warr., but the 3 antenna shortly bipectinate to- 

 about three-fourths, the wings shaped almost as in Eucrostes Hb., termen of 

 forewing strongly oblique. SC 2 of forewing arising before SC 5 . ? unknown. 



Type of the genus : Metallothea eucrostes sp. nov. 



34. Metallothea eucrostes sp. nov. 



S, 20 mm. Face and upperside of palpus orange-reddish. Vertex, thorax and 

 abdomen coneolorons with wings ; abdomen with four metallic bronze crests, the 

 first three large, the last small. 



Forewing with SC 1 anastomosing with C, M 1 connate with W ; fade.l light 

 green as in Warren's type of Metallochlora meeki, costa rather sparingly dotted 

 with fuscous ; a small fascons discal dot; lines not very distinct, silvery, the first. 

 from about middle of hind margin direct to cell-dot, then curving so as to pass, 

 round (almost touching) its distal side ; postmedian from close to tornus, slightly 

 curved, less oblique than termen, reaching costa at about three-fourths ; terminal 

 line blackish, interrupted at veins ; fringe dark grey, with a green line at base. 



Hindwing without fuscous dots ; a curved silvery postmediau line ; terminal 



line and fringe as on forewing. 



Forewing beneath more coarsely dusted at costa, dusted also in cell ; a fuscous- 

 cell-dot ; a thick, curved postmedian line of fuscous irroration from costa at nearly 

 two-thirds, becoming obsolete at hindmargin ; termen and fringe as above. Hind- 

 wing similar, without dusting at costa and in cell. 



Salisbury Plains, N. of Bowen, Queensland (A. Simson). Type in coll. 

 Tring Mus. 



J b 



35. Hemistola rubricosta sp. nov. 



c?, 34-37 mm. Face deep red. Palpus scarcely as long as diameter of eye ; 

 red, narrowly (or scarcely) pale beneath. Vertex green, narrowly white in front. 

 Autennal shaft marked with red at base; pectinations short, about as in rubrimargo 

 Warr. Thorax above green. Abdomen with the dorsal red markings very narrow 

 on segments 2-3 (just the crested part), then broad and virtually continuing to 

 anus, the crests still more diminutive than in rubrimargo and scarcely paler than 

 the red dorsum, but more or less bordered on each side with fuscous. Venation 

 variable, Br more extremely placed than in rubrimargo. 



Forewing rather blue-green (less blue than rubrimargo), costal margin red ; 

 lines whitish, less clear than in rubrimargo, the postmedian without red scales at 

 proximal edge ; discal dots dark green, well developed though minute ; termen 

 without red line ; fringe white, tipped with pink, without pink dots opposite the 

 veins. Hindwing with tail short and obtuse ; corresponding with forewing. 



Sikkim: Tonglo, 10,000 ft., July 1886 (H. J. Elwes). Type and others in 

 coll. Tring Mus. Also from Bhotan and in coll. Brit. Mus. from Yatung, Tibet,. 

 (A. E. Hobson). 



The description has been drawn up to bring out the differences from rubrimargo 

 Warr., with which, strangely enough, it has been mixed. 



