438 NOCTUID®. 
white; abdomen white suffused with rufous and with fuscous sub- 
dorsal patches on 2nd to 5th segments, the ventral surface dark 
brown towards extremity. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused 
with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, some yellow-green 
suffusion on costal area beyond middle and on terminal area above 
middle and tornus; an oblique white patch with its outer edge 
defined by a waved black line from base of costa to inner margin 
before middle, a green patch near its extremity above inner 
margin ; antemedial line blackish, dentate and oblique from costa to 
submedian fold, then incurved to the basal patch; a slight dark 
medial line, oblique to below the cell and slightly waved towards 
costa; reniform greenish defined by dark brown and with dark 
point in centre, pointed above; postmedial line strongly angled 
outwards and defined above by white below costa, then oblique, 
minutely dentate and with white band on its inner side; a 
small dark spot on costa before the subterminal line, which is 
dark brown defined on outer side by white, minutely dentate 
below costa, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal 
fold, excurved and minutely dentate at middle and incurved in sub- 
median interspace; a black-brown patch at apex with its outer 
edge dentate at veins 8 and 7 with white suffusion below it and a 
dark streak on vein 6; a series of small black lunules defined on 
inner side by white just before termen ; cilia white and brown with 
a series of small black lunules at middle. Hind wing white tinged 
with ochreous, the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to a point at 
tornus and with its inner edge emitting short black streaks on the 
veins ; a fine waved white line just before termen; cilia ochreous 
white tinged with brown and with fuscous points towards apex ; 
the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown and with 
black discoidal spot. 
@. Thorax with more white; fore wing with the postmedial line 
more strongly dentate on inner half, the white before it confined to 
a patch beyond the cell. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinna, Dinawa (Pratt), 2 ¢, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 
1 g,19. vp. 32-40 milim. Type fin Coll. Bethune-Baker. 
6786. Risoba prominens. 
Risoba prominens, Moore, P. Z.8. 1881, p. 329; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 
p. 399. 
tiie vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 91, pl. 4. f. 1 (1881). 
3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some white; palpi 
and frons greyish brown; tegule greyish brown irrorated with a 
few red-brown scales and with dark tips ; patagia with white outer 
edge; pectus whitish tinged with cupreous; fore and mid tibie 
black-brown, the tarsi brownish slightly ringed with white ; abdo- 
men whitish irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous at base; 
subdorsal fuscous patches on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments with an 
oblique while streak below them; the ventral surface ochreous 
