40n NOVITATES ZooLonicAE XXl. 1914. 



13. Autoba grisesceiis subsp. ochreirufa snbsp. nov. 



Foreiving : ochreons, thickly sprinkled with pinkish rufons in the cf , snffnseil 

 with pale reddish grey in the ? ; lines as ia ffrisescens, but rnfons in colonr in the 

 J and dark brown in the ? ; head and tegulae brown. 



1 c? (type), Darjiling, Jnly 1880 (Elwes); 1 ?, Sikkim, May 1889 (Pilcher). 



14. Aiitoba pallescens spec. nov. 



.1 iilnba reysicoliii- ab. piillexreiis Warr., Seits. Macrol. xi. p. 227. 



This is a good species quite distinct from versicolor ; larger in size, 2::^ mm. 

 as against K! mm.; the inner line brown, waved; outer line blackish, obliiiue to 

 vein 7, vertical to 5, then Innnlate-dentate ; on the costa it is followed bv some 

 brown scaling, limited externally by an obli(jae blackish apical streak, continued 

 »s a line across wing to beyond middle of inner margin ; a subterminal row of dark 

 ppots between veins, that above anal angle larger ; terminal line brownish ; a 

 lustrous pearly line at base of fringes ; in the hindwing the median line runs 

 towards tornus instead of to middle of inner margin. 



Underside uniform pale straw-colour, the fringe not dark brown. 



1 cJ from Woodlark Island, April 1897 (A. S. Meek). 



15. Vescisa pervadens spec. nov. 



Foreiving : ochreous in the <?, jiale fawn grey in the ?, a little paler than 

 commoda, which also occurs iu the Solomon Islands ; lines interrupted and hardly 

 marked except at costa, where the inner line is indicated by a single black striga, 

 the median by a double striga, the outer by a single oblique line outwards, followed 

 by a dark triangle before the apex ; below the angle at vein 6 the outer line 

 becomes lunulate-dentate ; the other two are indicated by brown flecks on the 

 veins ; slight dark speckling over the wing ; a line of dark lunules along termen. 



Hindwing with dark cell-spot and three parallel lines ; the median and outer 

 brown, the subterminal black, diffuse, not restricted to a blotch at anal angle, 

 but crossing wing as far as vein G. 



Underside in both sexes darker, with a reddish tinge, densely speckled, with 

 the lines indicated in black. 



Head and tegulae dark brown iu ? , ferruginous iu S ; thorax and abdomen 

 like wings, iu the <J whiter; second segment of dorsam with a large black lateral 

 spot. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 S (type) from Guadalcanar, April I'JOl, 1 ¥ Bougainville, May 1904, 

 Solomons (A. S. Meek). 



16. Holocryptis bisectalis ab. pura ab. nov. 



Differs from bisertidis Wlk. type in that the white ground colour is perfectly 

 pure; the black bar is thick and velvety black; the spot above anal angle reddish 

 inwardly edged with black. 



In the hindwing the markings beyond tiie bar are black, thick, ami well- 

 defined. 



The white of the thorax and abdomen is also pure. 



1 (S from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



