RISOBA. 437 
medial line. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins brown, 
the terminal area broadly brown; cilia brown with pale line at base ; 
the underside with the costal area suffused with brown and with 
some white marks towards apex, a dark discoidal lunule and oblique 
postmedial line from costa to vein 7. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 3 g, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 
1 $, Aroa R. “ep. 36 millim. Type tT ¢ in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. 
6784. Risoba literata. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 3.) 
Risoha literata, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 829; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 
p. 309. 
Heliothis albistriata, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. f. Nat. xli. p. 132 (1888) ; 
id. Zoologica, xii. hft. 29, p. 71, pl. i. f. 20. 
¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; the tegulz 
with dark brown patches, the patagia with white outer edge ; 
pectus and legs yellowish white, the fore and mid tibiz brown in 
front, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen white with 
subdorsal brown patches on 2nd to 4th segments, the three following 
segments rufous, the anal segment white with V-shaped dorsal 
brown mark and lateral streaks, the ventral surface white. Fore 
wing olive-grey suffused and irrorated in parts with rufous; a 
white patch at base with very oblique outer edge and slight rufous 
marks on it below the cell and above inner margin ; faint traces of 
an oblique dentate rufous antemedial line from costa to vein 1; a 
dark brown point in middle of cell and rufous discoidal spot with 
faint pale annulus; a narrow white postmedial band, strongly 
angled outwards and slight below costa, then oblique, straight, con- 
nected by a white fascia on inner margin with the basal patch, 
some oblique white striae beyond it from costa; subterminal line 
whitish, defined on inner side by dark brown, reduced to small 
dentate marks at middle, excurved from below vein 7, a patch of 
red-brown suffusion beyond it below apex; a terminal series of 
minute dark lunules defined by a slight waved whitish line. Hind 
wing yellowish white with some red-brown suffusion on basal area, 
the terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; a terminal series of slight 
dark spots defined by a whitish line; cilia yellowish white; the 
underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown dis- 
coidal Junule. 
Hab, Mapras, Nilgiris, 1 $ type; Cxyton,'Puttalam (Pole), 1 3; 
Ampborna; New Britain. Hp. 36-38 millim. 
6785. Risoba avola. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 4.) 
Risoba avola, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 234 (1906). 
¢. Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with white; mid 
tibize black-brown except at extremity, the tarsi brown ringed with 
