66 NOCLUID.®. 
banded with fuscous; abdomen greyish tinged with rufous, the dorsum 
irrorated with fuscous except towards extremity, the ventral surface 
whitish with black segmental bands. Fore wing whitish suffused 
with rufous to postmedial line, the inner margin pale grey ; the base 
deeper rufous and bounded by a sinuous dark line bent outwards to 
inner margin; antemedial line double, blood-red on costal area, 
then waved and widely separated, filled in with blackish below tke 
cell; claviform defined by black, extending to cell; orbicular 
whitish defined by black except below, elliptical ; reniform defined 
by black except above, rather irregular and concave towards base ; 
two reddish strie from medial part of costa and a waved reddish 
line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a diffused black- 
brown line beyond the cell; postmedial line black, oblique from 
costa to vein 6, slightly bent inwards below discal fold, angled out- 
wards at vein 3, then incurved, the areca beyond it white tinged 
with yellow to vein 3, the apical area white; subterminal line 
black, oblique to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold and excurved 
to termen at submedian fold, the area beyond it black below vein 6 
and a black patch before it from vein 3 to tornus; a terminal 
series of black striz ; cilia black with slight yellowish strie at base. 
Hind wing fuscous brown, the termen whitish; traces of a post- 
medial line defined by greyish on outer side and with whitish mark 
at inner margin; a terminal series of black striz ; cilia white with 
series of fuscous marks ; the underside bluish white irrorated with 
fuscous, a slight discoidal spot, medial shade from costa to discal 
fold, waved blue-white postmedial line with fuscous band on inner 
side and biack line on outer from costa to discal fold, then a fuscous 
band and terminal series of small black lunules. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinwa, Ekeikei (Pratt), type t 2 in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. Exp. 24 millim. 
6275. Chlumetia alternans. 
Chlumetia alternans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 147 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind. ii. p, 376 
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¢. Head white mixed with brown; palpi with black rings on 
2nd and Sra jomts; tegule brown with blackish annuli; thorax 
blackish mixea with brown and grey ; pectus and legs brown and 
whitish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown with 
obscure triangular whitish dorsal patches except at base, the ventral 
surface white suffused with brown at extremity. Fore wing with 
the basal area chocolate-brown, the rest of wing greyish suffused with 
red-brown ; a faint waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 
fold; antemedial line double, slightly waved towards costa, traces 
of a line formed by a few black scales beyond it from discal fold 
to yein 1; the discal and submedian folds with whitish streaks to 
suiterminal line; reniform with whitish annulus slightly defined 
by black, somewhat constricted at middle; medial line represented 
