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b', Palpi with the 3rd joint short. 
a, Hind tibiz with slight tufts of hair at base. 
a, Forewing with elongate furrow in cell 
and fringe of hair from subcostal nervure. 
AULACODES LATIFASCIALIS, Snell., Tijd. v. 
Eimt., 1876, p.202, pl: 202, pl. $,,fg. 7. Celebes. 
>. Forewing with large fovea in end of cell 
and no fringe of scales. 
(24). AULACODES SIENNATA, Warr., A. M. N. H. 
(6), xvil., p. 206 . é - 5 . Queensland. 
(25). AULACODES ACROPERALIS, sp. 1. 
Head orange-yellow ; thorax white in front, dark brown be- 
hind; abdomen fulvous yellow with the first segment white. 
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Forewiug with the apex produced and acute, dark brown ; the 
costa orange-yellow: a white spot followed by an orange patch at 
base ; a triangular white patch from cell to inner margin just 
before middle ; a pear-shaped white patch beyond the cell with 
its apex pointing outwards below costa ; an orange marginal band 
defined on inner side by a fine black line, inside which is a some- 
what irregular white band; a marginal series of black points. 
Hindwing dark brown at base ; a broad antemedial white band 
defined on outer side by a fine black line ; the outer area golden 
yellow with a black-edged white subapical spot; five medial sub- 
marginal black spots, the middle one with white centre and with 
black points on the margin beyond them, the middle ones placed 
in three pairs; cilia of both wings silvery at base. 
Hab. Fergusson Island, New Guinea. Hzp., 22 mm. 
Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. 
(26). *AULACODES WAIGAOALIS, Swinh., Cat. Het. 
Mus. Oxon. ined. . : : : . Waigaou. 
(27). AULACODES DIOPSALIS, sp, 0. 
Head and thorax white ; palpi and legs marked with brown ; 
antenne ochreous; abdomen pale yellow, white at base. Fore- 
wing silvery white with the basal two-thirds of costal area fulvous, 
expanding into an oblique triangular patch beyond discocellulars 
with its apex on vein 2 ; a sinuous orange fascia above inner mar- 
gin with a dark antemedial patch on it ; a wedge-shaped fulvous 
submarginal band from costa with its apex on vein 2; a marginal 
orange band joining the fascia on inner area, defined on inner side 
_by a fine black line and with a marginal series of black points. 
Hindwing with the basal two-thirds silvery white from costa to 
below the cell, bounded by a black line from vein 5 to the sub- 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—paRr Il. (JULY.) 12 
