PARANTHRENE. By M. Gaede. 795 
black. Hindwing golden coppery in the basal half, the rest hyaline yellowish. Veins black, inner margin 
coppery. 34 mm. New Britain. 
P. charlesi Le Gerf (94 g). Body blackish-brown, the 1st and 4th abdominal segments finely margined charlesi. 
with yellow. Legs almost entirely black. Forewing hyaline below the cell, the rest violettish-black, with a 
blue reflection in the cell. A square hyaline area behind the cell. Hindwing hyaline with a broad black 
margin, cross-vein broad dark, J 30 mm. Dutch New Guinea. 
P. leucocera Hm/ps. Body blackish-brown with a slight bine gloss. Two thirds of the antennae creamy icucocera. 
white. Forewing blackish-brown with an intense silvery blue gloss excepting the costal and distal margins 
which exhibit a green reflection. A triangular hyaline spot between veins 3 and 6 in the distal area. Hind¬ 
wing hyaline, the costal margin, the cell and the space below it with a silvery blue gloss. $ 34 mm. New 
Britain. 
P. microthyris limps, resembles a small leucocera. Body and forewing the same, but the costal and microthy- 
distal margins exhibit a violettish-blue reflection. The hyaline spot in the distal area is small, between nSm 
veins 3 and 4. Hindwing not different. $ 26 mm. New Britain. 
P. meeki Drc. (94 g). Antennae and body black, collar yellow. Fore wing violettish-blue, black at the meeki. 
costal and distal margins. Hindwing hyaline, metallic blue in the cell and below it almost to the anal angle, 
the distal and inner margins black. 36 mm. Trobriand I. 
P. caerulifera Hmps. Body blackish-brown with a blue gloss. Palpi, collar and legs somewhat white, caerulifera. 
Forewing black, with a metallic blue gloss as far as behind the cell, the marginal area with a violet gloss. 
Hindwing hyaline, the veins green. The costal margin as far as behind the cell, the cell and the space below 
it metallic blue with small hyaline basal spots, margin blackish-brown with a violet gloss. $ 32 mm. Queens¬ 
land. 
P. pulchripennis Wkr. (= ambigua Snell., andamana Le Gerf) (94 g) scarcely differs above from meeki, pulchripen- 
though the blue gloss on the forewing extends to the distal margin which remains somewhat dark in meeki. nis - 
Abdomen beneath with a yellowish-white median line, the two last segments finely margined with white. 
Abdomen beneath of meeki without any marking. Andamans, Borneo, Java. 
P. campodialis Wkr. Violettish-blue. Frons white, thorax with a golden yellow lateral spot and white cambodia- 
hair before it. Anal tuft yellow below. Legs whitish. Forewing metallic green, violet towards the apex. Hind- ^ s - 
wing hyaline, violettish-blue at the costal margin. Cambodja. 
P. affinis Rothsch. (94 h). Body, antennae and legs deep brown, with a metallic gloss. Forewing affinis. 
lustrous greenish black. Hindwing hyaline yellowish, costal margin and veins greenish blue. G 38 mm. 
Malacca. 
P. rufifinis Wkr. (= celebica Le Gerf) (94 h). The long body bluish-black. Anal tuft orange red, rufifinis. 
beneath the same. Legs black, only the anterior tarsi white. Forewing bluish-black, somewhat violet beneath. 
Hindwing hyaline, the cross-vein broad black and also the cell partly so. Base and distal margin black. 
<J 42 mm. North Celebes. 
P. javana Le Gerf (94 f) is very similar to rufifinis. The bluish-black marking on the hindwing is javana. 
greatly reduced, the dark margin also narrower. The end of the abdomen is more reddened. Abdomen 
beneath with a white spot at the base. Legs also with a few white spots. $ 38 mm. Java. 
P. zygophora Hmps. Body blackish-brown, collar with white hair. Forewing blackish-brown with zygophora. 
an intense blue gloss excepting the costal margin. Hindwing hyaline with a blue gloss. Cross-vein broad 
metallic blue, marginal area also metallic blue with hyaline streaks above veins 3, 5 and 6. $ 36 mm. 
Borneo. 
P. lecerfi Hmps. (= oberthiiri Le Gerf) (94 h). Body and legs bluish-black. Forewing violettish-black lecerfi. 
at the costal margin, the rest lustrous coppery brown, somewhat violettish brown at the margin. Hindwing 
with the same copper colour but with 2 hyaline spots: one at the inner margin, the other somewhat remote 
from it at the distal margin. $ 36 mm. Batjan. 
P. henrici Le Gerf (94 h). Body bluish-black with a slight violet reflection. Tegulae golden yellow, henrici. 
two orange red bands at the end of the abdomen, with an orange red anal tuft. Middle tibiae with black 
spurs, hind tibiae with pale yellow exterior spurs. Abdomen beneath paler at the end that* above, with 
a yellow median band towards the base. Forewing lustrous blue; darker at the costal margin, at the cross¬ 
vein, and at the distal margin; bluish-violet behind the cell. Hindwing hyaline, cross-vein broad black. $ 
36 mm. Burma. 
P. metaxantha Hmps. scarcely differs from henrici. Tegulae white. The exterior spurs on the middle metaxan- 
and hind tibiae white. Forewing metallic blue also in the distal area. Cell of hindwing dusted somewhat ilm - 
blackish-brown. $ 38 mm. Burma. 
P. noblei Swh. Antennae reddish-yellow. Body bluish-black, collar with a pale yellow ring, tegulae noblei. 
with a golden yellow spot. Abdomen with orange spots above and white ones beneath. Anal tuft bluish- 
