MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Melittia nepcha xanthodes subspec. nov. 
f av&odr)Q = yellowish 
30 mm. Head brownish-black, face paler brownish, orbits below, 
white. Antenna black, apical third fulvous, laterally mixed with pale 
yellow scales. Palpus white, basal segment with several black setae, 
median with a strong sublateral ridge of black setae externally, internally 
fuscous, terminal segment blackish beyond the base. Thorax dark brown 
mixed with deep brownish-ochreous scales, patagia with blue iridescence, 
apex of the tegula with a brownish-ochreous tuft; pectus bronze-fuscous, 
mixed with white ; lateral tufts of the metathorax deep brownish-ochreous. 
Abdomen dark brown, with narrow' orange-ochreous bands on the posterior 
margins of the segments, these bands on the anterior segments con- 
siderably dilated laterally; venter white, becoming yellowish towards the 
apex, two orange-yellow’ narrow rings on the anal ventrites. Legs blackish- 
brown, partially with a bronze gloss ; anterior femur with a broad attenu- 
ated white ventral streak, tibia white below, tarsus pale yellow above; 
median femur white above, and below, tibia mixed with white in the 
middle below, and with a median whitish band, in middle also mixed 
with a few blue-metallic scales, tarsus w’ith the base mixed with white ; 
posterior leg, femur with white knee, also white below, tibia mixed with 
deep ochreous-fulvous above, above internally also with long white hairs 
along its median third, mixed with w’hite externally, in the middle, at 
the apex, and below the middle. Fore w’ing fuscous-black with a bronze 
gloss, apical area and terminal band tawny-fuscous, transverse band on 
the end of the cell rather broad, dull black; hyaline areas faintly tinged 
yellowish, extended as follows: a broad elongate-triangular patch in the 
cell, a broad streak below the cell, postcellular area large, enclosing some- 
what less than the half of the furcate parts of the veins 7 and 8 ; a few blue 
scales on the transverse band. Cilia tawny-fuscous. Hind w r ing hyaline, 
except the dorsal lobe, less tinged yellow’ish than the fore wing, margin, 
and veins narrowly fuscous-black; dorsal lobe black, with a marginal 
streak, and a basal tuft of hairs, yellow’. Cilia fuscous-black. 
Hollandia, sea level, July 25, 1938. One specimen. Differs from the 
nominate form chiefly by the dark brown body, and by the more extended 
yellow scaling and hairs, and by fulvous hairs on the dorsum of the hind 
tibia. 
Paranthrene Hubner, 1820 
Paranthrene Hubner, 1820, Verz. bek. Sohm., p. 128. Newman, Ent. Mag., vol 
1, pp. 73, 83, 1832. Staudinger, Diss. de Sesiis, p. 39, 1854. Walker, List Lep 
Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 15, 1856. Staudinger, Stett. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 17, p 
334, 1856. Cat. Lep. Pal., vol. 1, p. 400, 1901. Boisduval, Hist. Nat. Lep. Het. 
vol. 1, p. 431, 1875. Hofmann, Gross-Schm. Eur., p. 31, 1887. Raupen Schm 
Eur., p. 34, 1893. Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, part 6, pp 
