190 
MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
314 — 315, fig. 24, 1901. Holland, Moth Book, p. 387, 1903; idem, 1920. Rebel, 
Berge’s Schm. Buell., ed. 9, p. 471, 1910. Spulkr, Schm. Bur., vol. 2, p. 306, 1910. 
Bartel in Seitz, Gross-Schm., Pal., vol. 2, p. 379, 1912. Strand, Arch. Naturgeseh., 
vol. 81, ser. A 8, pp. 47—48, 1915. Hampson, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, pp. 51, 100, 
1919. Le Cerf in Obekthur, Etud. Lep. coinp., vol. 17, p. 214 etc., 1920. Ztjkowsky, 
Intern. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 15, p. 55, 1921. Ualla Torre & Strand, Lepid. Catal., 
part 31, pp. 153 — 154, 1925. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, pp. 162 — 163, 
1929. Gaede in Seitz, Gross-Schm., Indo-Auatr., vol. 10, p. 792, 1933. 
Memythrus Newman, 1832, Entom. Mag., vol. 1, p. 44. 
Paranthrena, Herrich-Schafff.r, Syst. Bearb. Schm. Eur., vol. 2, p. 58, 1845. 
Sciapteron Staudinger, 1854, Dias, do Sesiis, pp. 39, 43. 
Tarsa Walker, 1856, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 61. 
Pseuclosetia Felder, 1861, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 43, p. 28. 
Tirista Walker, 1864, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 31, p. 22. 
Pramila Moore, 1879, Descr. Lep. Atkins., p. 9. 
Albuna Henry-Edwards, 1881, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 186. 
Fatua Henry-Edwards, 1882, Papilio, vol. 2, p. 97. 
Phlogothauma Butler, 1882, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 10, p. 237. 
Sciopterum Bartel, 1912, in Seitz, Gross-Schm., Pal., vol. 2, p. 376 ( Sciapteron 
emend.) 
Paranthrenella Strand, 1915, Arch. Naturgesch., vol. 81, ser. A 8, pp. 47—48. 
Key to the Papuan species of Paranthrene 
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Transparent parts of fore wing brassy-golden, with a rosy gloss 
scintillans Butler 
Transparent parts of fore wing hyaline, tinged yellowish or bluish, or colourless 
2 
Hyaline patch in cell with bluish gloss charlesi Le Cerf 
Hyaline patches without bluish gloss or tinge 3 
Costa and dorsum steel-blue, transverse band and apical fifth of wing purple 
dohertyi Rothschild 
Not thus 4 
Postcellular hyaline area rounded, or the entire wing except its margin, and 
veins, hyaline 5 
Postcellular hyaline area triangular 6 
Hyaline parts white flavifrons Hampson 
Hyaline parts yellowish pentazonata Hampson 
Opaque areas brownish-yellow hyalochrysa spec. nov. 
Opaque areas blackish-brown, or purple-black 7 
Postcellular hyaline patch extends from vein 3 to 6. . . leucocera Hampson 
Postcellular hyaline patch from vein 3 to 4 or above 4 but not reaching vein 
5 
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Hyaline patch between veins 3 and 4 microthyris Hampson 
Hyaline patch terminated below by vein 3, reaching posteriorly above vein 4 
cyanopis Durrant 
Paranthrene hyalochrysa spec. nov. 
vai.oQ — transparent, yovaoQ = gold 
$ 48 mm. Head brownish-black, with a few yellow hairs, collar yellowish 
on the vertex, white around the eyes, face yellowish-white, around the 
margins suffused with yellow, orbits white. Antenna black, scape mixed 
