PHAL.ENOIDKS. Sf)! 



*o3. PhalaBnoides megisto. (Plate LII. fig. G.) 



Agarista meqisto, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 179, pi. v. f. 5 (1832); 



Kiiby, Oat. Het. p. 23. 

 Vifessa pi/raliformis, Wlk. xxxi. 220 (1864); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. 



Oxon. p. 150. 



2 . Head and thorax orange ; palpi with some black hairs, the 

 2nd joint behind and 3rd joint black : antennae black ; tegulae and 

 patagia with black spots ; legs black with whitish streaks ; abdomen 

 black tinged with blue, the terminal segment orange. Fore wing 

 fuscous black, tinged with blue except terminal half ; the veins, cell, 

 and submedian fold streaked with grey, the last forking towards the 

 antemedial band ; a subbasal grey line expanding into a patch on 

 inner margin ; an antemedial yellowish band narrowing to costa ; 

 a grey line across end of cell ; an oblique yellowish band from 

 vein 7 just beyond the cell to vein 1 near tornus. Hind wing 

 black -brown tinged with blue ; cilia grey except towards apex. 



Hah. DoRET ; IN". Guinea {Wallace), 1 2 tyi^e f pyraliformis in 

 Mus. Oxon. Exp. 58 miilim. 



*54. PhalaBnoides restricta. 



Phalanoides restrictus, Roths. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 311, pi. 7. f. 8 (1897). 



$ . Head, tegulae, and patagia orange, the 3rd joint of palpi, 

 antennae, and patches on tegulae black ; thorax black, with orange 

 patch on metathorax ; abdomen black shot with blue, the terminal 

 segment orange. Fore wing black, shot with motailic blue to 

 beyond middle ; a whitish streak on base of inner margin ; an 

 oblique narrow yellowish-white antemedial band not reaching costa; 

 a spot in end of cell ; an erect diamond-shaped patch beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; the veins of terminal area streaked with white 

 except towards tornus. Hind wing blue-black ; cilia white except 

 towards apex. 



Hah. New Britain {Rihhe), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Ea^j). 

 46 miilim. 



*55. Phalaenoides basiplaga. 



Phal(B7ioides basiplaga, Roths. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 275, pi. 5. f. 5 (1900). 



5 . Head and thorax orange, the 3rd joint of palpi, antennae, 

 and spots on tegulae and patagia black ; pectus and legs black, the 

 coxae orange, the tibiae streaked with grey. Fore wing black, shot 

 with metallic blue to beyond middle; the base of inner margin with 

 whitish streak ; a subbasal yellowish-white line ; an oblique ante- 

 medial band ; an oblique postmedial band from below costa to 

 vein 1 attenuate at extremities, angled inwards on discocellulars 

 and outwards on vein 2 ; the veins streaked with white on medial 

 and terminal areas. Hind wing with the basal half yellowish 

 white, its outer edge strongly excurved at middle, the costal area 

 and a streak on base of median nervure black ; the terminal area 

 black ; cilia white except towards apex. 



