O74. NOCTUID®. 
vein 1; a terminal series of small triangular black spots; cilia 
chequered white and pale fuscous. Hind wing white tinged with 
fuscous, the terminal area darker from apex to vein 2; the under- 
side with ill-defined white streak below middle of costa and white 
patch at apex with blackish mark before it. 
Hab. Dotcu N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 9 ; Br. N. Guinna, 
Aroa R, (Meek), type t ¢ in Coll. Bethune-Baker, Exp. 26 
millim. 
*6556. Sarrothripus avola. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 16.) 
Sarrothripa avola, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (1906). 
g. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow-green and irrorated 
with some black scales ; palpi with black bands on the joints and 
the 2nd joint biack above towards base; frons with black bar; 
basal joint of antenne black at tip, the shaft blackish except at 
base; tegule with medial black band; patagia with black mark at 
base, oblique medial barand edged with black at tips; prothorax with 
black band ; pectus tinged with brown ; fore legs black above, the 
tarsi black except at base; abdomen suffused with fuscous brown. 
Fore wing white tinged with yellow-green and irrorated with dark 
brown except on basal and costal areas; subbasal points on costa 
and above vein | anda streak in cell to the double minutely dentate 
black antemedial line, which is oblique from costa to nedian nervure, 
then inwardly oblique, two black points beyond it on vein 1; a 
double irregularly waved medial black liae with small black marks 
beyond it below costa and at angles of cell; a double dentate 
postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, oblique from vein 4 to 
submedian fold, then angled outwards; a subterminal white line 
slightly defined by black on inner side, forking at apex, angled 
inwards below costa, then minutely waved and excurved slightly 
at middle ; a termimal series of small triangular black spots; cilia 
whitish and fuscous with a blackish line through them. Hind wing 
white, the terminal area fuscous brown, broad at costa, narrowing 
to a point at submedian fold. Underside of fore wing fuscous with 
small white spots on terminal half of costa; hind wing white, 
with the costal area and terminal area to submedian fold fuscous 
with slight whitish bar just before apex. 
Hab. Br. N. Guixna, Avola (Pratt), type tT ¢ in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. wp. 28 millim. 
*6§6557. Sarrothripus cebea. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 17.) 
Sarrothripa kebea, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (1906). 
3. Head and thorax white variegated with black-brown ; palpi 
with black bands on Ist and 2nd joints and some black on 3rd joint ; 
antenne with the Ist joint black on outer side and the shaft black ; 
tegule reddish brown at base and with black medial band ; patagia 
with black patches ; tibize and tarsi banded-with black ; abdomen pale 
