NIGRAMMA.—SADARSA. 203 
exctirved to ,median nervure, then oblique, some dark suffusion 
beyond it in and below cell and an oblique line from submedian 
fold to inner margin; a slight discoidal lunule and tuft of raised 
scales at upper angle of cell; postmedial line double, obsolescent 
towards costa, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, excurved 
at middle and below submedian fold, crossed by a pale streak from 
lower angle of cell to beyond the indistinct subterminal line which 
is incurved below vein 3; a series of slight dark lunules before 
termen; a terminal series of dark strie; cilia grey-brown with a 
rufous line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of 
basal half semihyaline to just below the cell; cilia whitish with 
a brown line through them; the underside grey-brown. 
Hab. Br. New Gutyra, Aroa R. (Meek), typet 2 in Coll. 
Rothschild. vp. 32 millim, 
*6454, Nigramma albicans. (Plate CLX XIX. fig. 24.) 
Lophoptera albicans, Pag. Zoologica, xii. Heft 29, p. 92, pl. ii. f. 40 (1900). 
@. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the 
outer half of patagia bright rufous; antenne dark brown; tarsi 
banded with blackish; ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore 
wing ochreous irrorated with rufous, the inner area below sub- 
median fold bright rufous, expanding beyond the cell to termen at 
discal fold and leaving some ochreous at base of inner margin ; 
antemedial line very indistinct, double, curved, minutely waved, 
filled in with white in submedian interspace and with black-brown 
spot beyond it on median nervure; reniform faintly defined by 
rufous, constricted at middle ; postmedial line very indistinct, 
double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 
oblique below vein 4,some minute dark streaks beyond it on costa ; 
subierminal line indistinct, double, minutcly waved, some blackish 
before and beyond it at costa; a terminal series of small black 
lunules defined on inner side by ochreous; cilia ochreous tinged 
with rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, the 
cilia ochreous tinged with rufous. 
Hab. Nuw Brirarx, Kinigunang (2ibbé), type f 2 in Coll. 
Rothschild. wp. 28 millim. 
Genus SADARSA. Type 
padarsa, Moore, Lep. Atk, 1p: 164 (1882). <.....0.0.cescnsecesroeree longipennis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 38rd long; frons smooth, 
with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 
crests; tibiw slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with small dorsal crests on 
three basal segments. Fore wing very long and narrow, the costa and inner 
margin parallel, the costa highly arched towards apex, the termien very 
obliquely curved and hardly crenulate, the inner margin lobed near base: 
veins 3 and 3 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 
