Ilelerocera from New Guinea. 443 



Asura decussa, sp. n. 



c£. Head and thorax yellowish. Primaries pale pinkish 

 yellow, deepening into pinkish towards the termen ; a 

 brownish X-shaped mark across the median area from costa 

 to inner margin, with a broad postmedian paler > mark 

 joining its two external extremities ; costa very finely dark, 

 fringes dark. Secondaries pale semitransparent yellow. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hab. Arfak Mountains, 4000 feet; February and March. 



Type in Coll. Kenrick. 



Diacrisia styx, sp. n. 



<J . Palpi and antennae black, head and thorax orange-red; 

 abdomen black, with a lateral orange-red line. Both wings 

 black : primaries with the veins finely whitish ; a white 

 irregular spot below the angle of vein 2, and a broad, curved, 

 white subapical band from C03ta to termen, leaving the apex 

 black. Secondaries uniformly black. Fringes black to botli 

 wings. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Hab. Ninay Valley (Arfak Mountains), 3600 feet. 



Type in my collection. 



Noctuidae. 

 PlLIPECTUS, gen. nov. 



Eyes smooth ; palpi upturned, second and end segment 

 long, the latter nearly naked ; antennae simple ; thorax, 

 patagia with raised, longish, spatulate scales and tufts of very 

 long bristle-like hairs. Legs long, thin, mid pair with a 

 pair of long tibial spines; hind legs with two pairs of Long 

 spurs, one pair being midway between the femoral and tarsal 

 sockets. Neuration: primaries with vein 2 from near middle 

 of cell, 4 from the lower angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 

 from the upper angle, 8 and 9 on a long stalk from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 7 to form the areole, 11 from behind the middle 

 of cell. Secondaries with 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 

 from just above the angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 



Type, Pilipectus ocellatus, B-B. 



c 



Pilipectus ocellatus, sp. n. 



<J . Frons greyish brown; caput cream-colour; collar 

 mauve-brown, tipped with cream ; thorax brown, patagia 



30* 



