34 4 NOCTUID Rs 
*6051. Gadirtha turneri. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 28.) 
Ochthophora turneri, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zoo]. xii. p. 220 (1906). 
2. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi pale 
grey with black stripe at side of 2nd joint, the extremity of 3rd 
joint black ; tegule with black medial line, the tips dark brown ; 
metathoracic crest mostly dark brown; fore tarsi black; abdomen 
grey-brown. Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown, the 
antemedial area suffused with black especially towards costa; 
antemedial line -fine,- black, dentate, angled inwards on median 
nervure and vein | and outwards in submedian fold; orbicular 
a small tuft of rufous scales defined .by whitish; reuiform fuscous 
with whitish annulus defined by black, its inuer edge angled inwards 
in discal fold and its outer outwards to postmedial line, a small tuft 
of rufous scales defined by whitish in centre; postmediai line fine, 
double filled in with whitish, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 
below costa, incurved at vein 6, then strongly dentate and bent 
inwards below vein 3; subterminal line pale, diffused, waved, 
almost obsolete towards costa, then defined on inner side by small 
dentate brown marks ; a terminal series of black striw ; cilia pale 
rufous. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially on 
‘terminal area; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 
tinged with brown, 
Hab. Br. New Gurines, Babooni (Pratt), type + ¢ in Cull. 
Bethune-Baker, ep. 40 millim. 
*6652, Gadirtha costipallens. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 8.) 
Gadirtha costipallens, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 220 (1906). 
2. Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown, the tegule 
and patagia pale grey-green, the latter above and the metathorax 
behind edged with brown; abdomen white tinged with brown. 
Fore wing pale red-brown mixed with pale grey-green, the costal 
area white slightly irrorated with brown from antemedial line to 
apex ; a black streak below the cell from base to below origin of 
vein 2; subbasal line black defined by whitish on outer side, acutely 
ungled outwards below ccsta and cnding at subcostal nervure, a 
diffused black patch beyond it below costa; antemedial line 
indistinct, double, angled inwards below costa and obsolete below 
the cell; orbicular represented by a black point; reniform defined 
by black, its outer edge produced to a point and with a slight ridge 
of raised scales in middle with some rufous beyond it: diffused 
wedged-shaped black streaks beyond upper and lower angles of 
cell; postmedial line obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 7, 
excurved to vein 6, incurved at vein 5, then again excurved and 
angled outwards in submedian fold, then strongly incurved ; a faint 
dentate subterminal line with an oblique blackish streak to it 
