( 200 ) 



reniform on its external edge, with a small dark spot at the end of the cell ; 

 a dark pnrplish suhterminal dentate line margins internally the pale termen. 

 Secondar)- dark slate-grej-. 



? . Like the male, bnt paler. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Hub. Ekeikei, Jannar)- to March. 



Types in my collection. 



89. Nyctipao aroa spec. nov. 



<?. Head and thorax dark blackish brown ; abJomen dark sooty brown, 

 covered with metallic purplish blue ; both wings dark sooty brown, with a deep 

 metallic pnrplish bine lustre in certain lights ; no markings visible on either wing, 

 except the large ocellns of the primary, with the least trace of the antemedian line 

 and that across the fold in continuation of the dark edge of the ocellns. 



? . Like the male, bnt much loss dark. Primary with the erect waved and 

 dentate antemedian line distinct ; ocellns distinct, with its inner crescent filled 

 in with tawny, the rest dark, with its onter edge black, extending to the inner 

 edge of the crescent, then descending in a broad twice-scalloped line to the inner 

 margin ; a broad oblique white dash at a (piarter from the apex, with the least 

 trace of a large spotted line crossing it at its lower extremity. 



Expanse, 100 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River, October. 



Type in my collection. 



90. Hulodes gothica spec. nov. 



<?. Head and thorax pale cinnamon-brown ; abdomen pale greyish. Primary 

 pale cinnamon-brown, with base and termen broadly ochreous ; a basal broadish 

 grey band, antemedian band broad dark grey, ending on the inner margin with 

 a deep velvety brown mark with a circular excision on its outer and lower edge, 

 a median grey band, a trace of two confluent postraedian grey lines, and a 

 pubterminal one, outside which is an erect rusty definite stripe, edged with a 

 broad sinuous blackish grey dash from the costa and a less conspicuous one 

 from the tornus ; a large ochreous patch at the end of the cell. The grey bands 

 are all nearly erect and indefinite as to width, and the wing is more or less 

 closely irrorated with dark grey. Secondary greyish, with a dark median grey 

 band, followed by an ochreous one, then a broad dark grey somewhat divided 

 area with a broad ochreous termen ; wing finely irrorated with grey. 



Expanse, 86 mm. 



Huh. Aroa River, April. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



Catephiodes gen. nov. 



Similar to Catephia, but palpi, with first and second segments heavily 

 scaled, reaching above the vortex ; third segment smoothly scaled, and long 

 antennae, with a few very fine and minute hairs in both sexes, so fine as to be almost 

 simple ; thorax with collar erected almost to a tuft ; proximal segment of thorax 

 hairy, and with a fiin-like spreading tuft ; tibiae with spines, hind tibiae of 

 male with long hairy tufts. 



Type : Catephiodes meeki B-B. 



