. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 640 ARCTIADJE. bands; spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a subterminal band expanding towards costa and torn us and emitting a streak to termen at middle ; a terminal band. Hind wing fuscous black ; a triangular white patch below and beyond end of cell with a small spot below it above tornus. $ . Hind wing with large rather triangular white patch from medial part of costa to above tornus, a minute blackish spot at upper angle of cell. Hah. SolomostIs., Isabel I. (Meek), 1 J , 1 ? . Exp. 32 millim. Type t 8 in Col
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 640 ARCTIADJE. bands; spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a subterminal band expanding towards costa and torn us and emitting a streak to termen at middle ; a terminal band. Hind wing fuscous black ; a triangular white patch below and beyond end of cell with a small spot below it above tornus. $ . Hind wing with large rather triangular white patch from medial part of costa to above tornus, a minute blackish spot at upper angle of cell. Hah. SolomostIs., Isabel I. (Meek), 1 J , 1 ? . Exp. 32 millim. Type t 8 in Coll. Rothschild. 708 a. Meteugoa melanoleuca. (Plate XXXII. fig. 29.) Meteugoa melanoleuca, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 1S4 (1901). c? . Palpi not reaching vertex of head. Black ; head, tegulae, patagia, fore and mid legs irroraterl with white scales. Fore wing with white antemedial band very broad at inner margin, narrowing to costa ; a white subapical spot. Hind wing with white band extending from near base to beyond middle and not reaching inner margin. Rab. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 6 type. Exp. 22 millim. Genus CASTRONIA. Type. Castronia, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912, p. 420 apostata. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, very small; antennae of male bipectinate with long' branches to apex ; hind tibial with two pairs of minute spurs. Fore wing- with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 stalked, 9 absent; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Eutelesia in the proboscis being aborted and the hind wing with veins 6, 7 from the cell. 711 a. Castronia apostata. , Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxi D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912 cT. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the back of head Tessellota apostata, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 227 (1905). Castronia collaris, D. Jones,
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