Genera and Species 0/ Arctiadaj. 399 



90 a. Nola diagona, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax white slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 palpi with brown spot on second joint in front ; pectus and 

 legs suffused with brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men oclireous white, the ventral surface suffused with brown. 

 Fore Aviug white irrorated with fuscous especially on outer 

 half of medial area ; a small subbasal dark spot on costa ; 

 antemedial line blackish with small spot on costa, oblique 

 and sinuous to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; a 

 dark spot on costa above end of cell and oblique siuuous line 

 from lower angle to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, 

 oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and slightly bent 

 outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, 

 angled outwards below vein 7, excurved and with dark patch 

 before it at middle, then oblique; a slight maculate line 

 before termen, bent inwards to costa, and a terminal series 

 of dark striae. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with 

 brown except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown and a discoidal striga. 



Hub. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak {Pratt), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 23 mm. 



115 a. Roeselia xanthoplaga, sp. n. 



? . Head and tegulse white, the thorax white tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi, antenuce, pectus, legs, and abdoraen white 

 tinged with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white. 

 Fore wing white suti'used with pale red-brown, some yellow 

 suflusiou on basal area, the inner medial area yellow tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with large black scales, and with 

 slight black streaks on vein 2 and in submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line rather ill-defined, double, brownish filled in with 

 white, excurved, a blackish spot on it at costa and an oblique 

 blackish bar beyond it from costa with an oblique whitish 

 shade from before it to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 

 absent : the apical part of costa suffused with blackish, with 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 white, obliquely excurved below costa, excurved to termen at 

 middle, a white patch at tornus with an elliptical red-browa 

 patch on it and a dark line on its inner edge ; cilia white 

 mixed with brown on apical half and with some dark points 

 above tornus. Hind wing white, the apex faintly tinged 

 with brown. Underside of fore wing white suffused with 

 fuscous brown except on inner area. 



Hab. SiKHiM {M'diler), 1 ? type. Exp. 26 mm. 



