470 “NOCTUID. 
white spots; thorax red-brown mixed with crimson and yellow; 
pectus and legs white, the fore tibie yellow; abdomen white, the 
basal crest yellow and crimson, Fore wing with the costal area 
yellow, the basal area yellow suffused with crimson and with a 
purple-brown fascia below costa and a large diamond-shaped ante- 
medial silvery white patch extending from subcostal nervure to 
inner margin, bounded on outer side by a crimson line with an 
oblique yellow line beyond it from the costal area to median 
nervure; medial area, purple-brown emitting angles to just below 
costa beyond the antemedial and before the postmedial line; an 
oblique silvery white postmedial spot defined by crimson below the 
costa, the punctiform black postmedial line arising fromits lower 
edge towards which it is indistinctly double, slightly incurved at 
discal fold and bent inwards below vein 4; subterminal line 
blackish, straight, not extending to costa, a small silvery white 
wedge-shaped mark defined by crimson before it below the costa, a 
small spot below vein 6 and a faint oblique yellowish mark in sub- 
median interspace; the termen and cilia yeliow. Hind wing with 
the basal half white, the terminal half yellow faintly tinged with 
crimson. Underside of fore wing yellowish white with the ante- 
medial white patch showing through. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinna, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type t+ 2 in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker. Lap. 32 millim. 
6819. Gabala polyspilalis. 
eee paiganiaiee W1k. xxsiv, 1221 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 
p. 136, 
gd. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with blood-red, the 
vertex of head, tegule at middle and sides and patagia with silvery 
white patches defined by red; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs 
white, the fore and mid tibie with red streaks at base, the fore 
tarsi slightly ringed with red ; abdomen ochreous yellow, the crests 
Fig. 170.— Gabala polyspilulis, G.  } 
red, the ventral surface white. Fore wing red-brown striated 
with whitish, the terminal area Lelow vein 3 redder; the basal 
area with numerous small silvery white spots defined by red and 
Jarger subbasal spots below costa and cell and antemedial spots 
below costa, in and below cell and above inner wargin; a small 
silyery white spot defined by red below middle of costa; he 
