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shows a narrower discal spot, the anterior part of the thorax orange. Borneo; New Hebrids; Salomons, 
Australia, Queensland. — subsp. ceramensis Voll. from Ceram is of a more fiery orange; the green discal spot ceramenms. 
extends till nearer to the base; the green at the thorax like in the type. The larva is ochreous-yellow, on 
the dorsum black, laterally watered brown with brown and grey hair-tufts resting on orange-yellow and 
carmine tubercles; it lives on lichens, according to Piepers also on Flacourtia and Ficus heterophylla and 
pupates in a leaf spun together. 
0. lifuensis Rothsch. Antennae brown; head and thorax yellowish-red; apices of shoulder-covers Hfuensis. 
and a large spot on the metathorax steel-green; abdomen orange-reddish. Forewing yellowish-red with a satiny 
lustre; three quarters of the costal margin, a median transverse band, below the median twice as broad 
as above, and a spot in the middle of the border are metallic greenish-blue. Hindwings paler orange-yellowish. 
Length of forewings: ^16% mm, $ 21 mm. Lifu. Loyalty Islands. 
0. aurifera Rothsch. Antennae sooty brown, forehead black; vertex and thorax orange-reddish aurifera. 
with a metallic lustre; abdomen Isabel-coloured. Forewings metallic reddish-golden; a spot near the base of 
the proximal margin, a large discal spot and the basal two thirds of the costal margin metallic blue. Hindwings 
maize-coloured. Length of forewings: 21 mm. Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains in Dutch New Guinea. 
0. metallescens Rothsch. Antennae brown, forehead black; vertex and thorax reddish golden, the metalles- 
thorax with a purple-brown median spot; abdomen light Isabel-coloured, the last two segments and the anal cem - 
tuft maize-coloured. Forewing silvery-white; the basal half below the median reddish golden, on 3 sides sur¬ 
rounded by a broad, purple-brown band enclosing the costal margin in its basal third and extending in the 
middle in a broad wedge to the margin. Hindwings Isabel-coloured yellow. The $ is larger and paler. 
Length of forewings: 19 mm, $ 24 mm. Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea (February). 
0. bistrigata Rothsch. Palpi scarlet; head grey with a reddish-yellow median band; thorax slate- bistrigata. 
coloured with a greenish metallic lustre; collar reddish-yellow with scarlet margins and a slate-coloured median 
band, shoulder-covers Isabel-coloured; legs scarlet, abdomen reddish-yellow. Forewing reddish golden, dusted 
brownish; a broad band along the basal two thirds of the costal margin and a hook-shaped discal band from the 
basal third of the proximal margin to two thirds of the length of the lowest radial vein metallic green with a 
purple reflection. Hindwings orange-yellowish. Length of forewings: 2G mm. Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea. 
0. bicolora B.-Bak. resembles bistrigata. Head and antennae black, also the terminal joint of the bicolnra. 
carmine palpi; body like in bistrigata. Forewing straw-coloured with a carmine costa; a broad, hook-shaped, 
dark bronze-coloured band is situate below the cell, bends a little upward at the cell-end and turns at the proximal 
end rectangularly to the proximal margin. Hindwings of a deeper yellow. Expanse of wings: 42 to 44 mm. 
Dinawa. (New Guinea.) 
114. Genus: Cllirysaeglfa Btlr. 
Very closely allied to the preceding; distinguished by the ciliated antennae of the <£; the veins on the 
forewings like there; there may occasionally also occur an accessory cell; on the hindwing the middle radial 
vein is absent. The only species known for a long time is Indian; another species was described from New 
Guinea. 
C. magnifica Wkr. (15 f) has golden yellow forewings with a broad metallic green costal margin and magnifica. 
distal margin, exhibiting a purple reflection, a similar inner-marginal spot near the base and a discal ban 
expanded below the cell. Nepal, Sikkim, Borneo. — fa. ferrifasciata Moore from India shows a still greater ferrifasc-ia- 
expansion of the discal band below the cell. — taiwana Wil. is of a paler ground-colour with more intensely , . 
i o «/ taiwana* 
metallic blue markings. The inner-marginal spot on the forewing is connected with the costal margin. From 
Formosa; taken in August. 
C. bipunctata B.-Bak. Head and neck yellow, shoulder-covers yellow with white tips and a large, lipunctata. 
metallic green spot; thorax white, spotted metallic green; abdomen white with a yellow anal tuft; forelegs 
blackish, middle and hindlegs yellowish-white. Forewing pearl-coloured white with a large, metallic green 
spot below the cell and a smaller one behind the cell. Hindwings purely white, diaphanous. Expanse of wings: 
38 mm. Kebea Mountain, Dinawa and Aroa River. 
115. Genus: CJhrysoraptut Btlr. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the 1st median rising together with the 3rd radial from the lower 
cell-angle of the forewing, whereas the middle radial vein is absent; the subcostal veins form an accessory cell, 
only the 1st subcostal vein rising separately from the cell. On the hindwing the 1st median and 3rd radial rise 
petioled or unpetioled, the middle radial vein is here also absent; the transverse vein is almost entirely absent 
■ and the discocellular is open; subcostal and 1st radial are on a short footstalk. There are altogether 5 species 
known, two of which are met with in the palearctic region, the others being Indian. 
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