. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 53 scales on 3rd. Fore wing greenish black ; ;i wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 extending. Fig. 9.—Hyal&thea aroa, rf. {. nearly to termen and dilated at middle ; elongate spots above veins 3, 4 and 6 and a small spot above 7. Hind wing greenish black, the cilia near termen brownish. Sab. Br. N. Guinea. Aroa R. {Meek), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. Type f in Coll. Rothschild. *230 c. Hyalaethea meeci. Ceryx meehi, Boths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 429 (1910), & xix. p. 375,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 53 scales on 3rd. Fore wing greenish black ; ;i wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 extending. Fig. 9.—Hyal&thea aroa, rf. {. nearly to termen and dilated at middle ; elongate spots above veins 3, 4 and 6 and a small spot above 7. Hind wing greenish black, the cilia near termen brownish. Sab. Br. N. Guinea. Aroa R. {Meek), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. Type f in Coll. Rothschild. *230 c. Hyalaethea meeci. Ceryx meehi, Boths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 429 (1910), & xix. p. 375, pi. iii. f. 25. c? . Head and thorax black, the frons, tegulse except at middle of tips, patagia at base, and metathorax yellow ; fore coxae yellow ; abdomen black with a yellow band on each segment. Fore wing black; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, elongate patch below the cell, elongate spot above veins 6, 4, 3 and small spot above vein 7. Hind wing yellow; the terminal area black except towards tornus, expanding at apex and emitting streaks inwards below vein 2 and at vein 1 ; the underside with the costal area black. Sab. Be. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), type f rf in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. *230 J. Hyalaethea alberti. Hyalaethea alberti, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 440 (1910), & xix. p. 376, pi. iv. f. 23. <S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown shot with blue ; frons and triangular patches on pat igia orange-yellow; coxa', femora, and legs below yellow, the fringe of scales of fore tarsi whitish; abdomen with orange bands on each segment. Fore wing black-brown with a cupreous gloss; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, elongate patch in submedian interspace from near base to near termen, and elongate spots above veins 6, 4, 3. Hind wing black-brown with a cupreous gloss ; the lobe of inner margin and cilia towards tornus whitish; the cell and a patch below it orange- yellow ; hyaline spots above veins 2 and 3. Sab. Solomons, Vella Lavella (Mee
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