500 



ARCTIAD^. 



Sect. II. {Bhodogadria). Head of male without tuft of hair ; fore wing with 

 the costa not dilated at base. 

 A. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a large pointed lobe, the 

 inner area clothed with long flocculent hair on underside. 



2110. Rhodogastria arthns-bertrandi. 



lAtho&ia arthus-bertrand, Guer. Voy. Coquille, Atlas Lep. pi. 19. f. 5 (1830) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Chelonia saucia, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 214 (1832). 

 Creatonotus caudipennis, Wlk. xxxi. i284 (1864). 

 Amerila piepersi, Snell. Tijd. Ent. xxii. p. 102, pi. 8. f. 4 (1879). 



Fig. 223. — Bhodogastria arthus-hertrandi, (S . \. 



Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi crimson with black 

 spots; antennae black, the basal joint crimson and black; frons 

 and vertex of head with black spots ; tegulae, shoulders, patagia, 

 pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black spots, the tegulae 

 edged with crimson ; legs crimson, streaked with fuscous and grey- 

 brown ; abdomen yellowish white, the last two segments tinged 

 with crimson, a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; two black spots at base ; the end of cell and area just 

 below it semihyaline ; a fuscous discoidal band ; hyaline patches in 

 the interspaces between veins 7 and 3, below vein 5 extending to 

 near termen ; the apical area rather darker brown. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white : an apical brown patch ; the hair on inner area 

 of male ochreous. 



Hah. Celebes ; Aru ( Wallace), 1 <S , type t d $ caudijpennis 

 in Mus. Oxon. ; N. Guinea. Exp. 54 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male with the tornus slightly produced. 

 a. Hind wing of male with fold and fringe of hair on inner 

 area on upperside. 



a}. Fore wing white rubripes. 



h^. Fore wing brown, with whitish patch beyond the cell. 



a/-. Abdomen orange hrunnea. 



b"^. Abdomen pale, pink at base and extremity roseiharba. 



c^. Abdomen pink except at base luteibarba. 



2111. Rhodogastria rubripes. 



Amerila rubripes, Wlk. xxxi. 304 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 196. 

 "White ; palpi crimson above, with black spots on the joints ; 



