418 NOCTUID ®. 
vein 1, with slight green streaks on subcostal and median nervures 
from it to postmedial line; a slight discoidal dark point; postmedial 
line black defined by green on outer side, obliquely excurved and 
minutely waved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and with some 
white beyond the green near inner margin; a slight minutely 
waved green sabterminal line, slightly excurved below vein 7, 
oblique and whitish from vein 2 to tornus ; termen suffused with 
fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow with terminal black-brown 
band, wide at costa, narrowing to vein 2 and expanding towards 
tornus, some yellowish points on termen between veins 5 and 3; 
cilia with a fine yellowish line at base except towards tornus. 
Underside of fore wing fuscous, yellow at base. 
Hab. Aru Is.; New Guinua, Humboldt Bay (Doherty), 19 type 
brachyptera. Hap. 32 millim. 
. 
6758. Blenina donans. 
Blenina donans, Wik. xiii. 1215 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 129, 
pl. 160. f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 877. 
Amphipyra laportei, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 140. f. 28 (1874). 
Blenina grisea, Moore, P. Z.S8. 1877, p. 607, pl. 60. f. 1. 
Blenina pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 157, pl. 5. f. 4 (1882). 
Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown, the vertex of 
head, base of tegule and shoulders with some green; palpi with 
some black at base of drd joint in front; ‘abdomen orange- 
yellow, the crests white mixed with brown, the anal tuft 
whitish, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing white 
mixed with pale red-brown, the costal area slightly tinged 
Fig. 156.—Blenina donans, 3. }. 
with green; a curved dark striga at base of costal area; subbasal 
line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, then waved and ending 
at submedian fold; a black point in middle of cell; medial line 
indistinct, blackish, sinuons; a slight black discoidal striga with 
streak beyond it in discal fold to postmedial line, which is bent 
outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved at discal 
foid and beiow vein 4, angled outwards at vein 1; subterminal line 
brown defined on outer side by whitish, minutely dentate, angled 
outwards below yein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia with a series 
