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SYNTOMiDAEEucbromia oenone ButlerEuehromia oenone Butler, 1876, J.Linn. Soc., Zool., 12: 365.Hutuna, I ~.Distribution: Solomon Is.Eucbromia shortlandica niphosticba subsp.n.Bellona I., Matahenua, 29-30. xi. 1953, (1. D. BRADLEY), 8 O. 14 ~ including holotype& allotype.Similar in size and in the structure of both male and female genitalia to E. s. shortlandieaSwinhoe (1905) but differs from it in the fore wing, where the basal hyaline spotis minute, and in the abdominal markings, the second and third segments beingedged posteriorly with white. The nominate subspecies occurs on Shortland, Bougainvilleand Guadalcanal Islands.ARCTIIDAENOLINAECelama aroa B. Baker ?subsp.Celama aroa B.Baker, 1904, Novit. zool., 11: 414, pI. 5: 39, 41.Celama murina Rothschild, 1916, Novit. zool. 23: 322. Syn. nov.Onengaguga, 1 ~.Distribution: New Guinea; Louisiade Arch.; Bismarck Arch.The genitalia ofthe single female differ slightly, perhaps only individually, from thoseof the allotype of aroa and the holotype of murina in the shape of the signum on thebursa copulatrix. In all three specimens the signum is serrate-edged on one side; in theRennell specimen the opposite side is medially right-angled; in the other two specimensit is medially produced to a tapered point.Celama pura sp.n. (Figs. 21, 22, 27, 88)Guadalcanal 1., Tapenanje, 10-23. xii. 1953, (J. D. BRADLEY), holotype 3 and allotype ~.Paratypes: type locality, 23; Guadalcanal I., Honiara, 1 J, 1 ~; Ysabel I., Tetamba,13, 2~; Rennell I., Hutuna, 2 Cj'.3~ 12-14 mm. Basal half of male antenna bipectinate, apical half ciliate. Femaleantenna simple. Palpus twice as long as the diameter of the eye, second segment longscaled.Palpus, head, thorax and abdomen white, lightly irrorate with cinnamonbuff. Fore wing white, the costa irrorate with cinnamon buff; proximal quarter ofcosta cinnamon buff, the more distal scales slightly raised; at one-third of the wingthere is a patch of cinnamon buff extending from the costa to the lower median,so_metimes weakly marked between the cost~ and the subcostal vein, edged posteriorly35

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