498 NOCTUID ©. 
antenne brown, the basal joint scarlet; shoulders with scarlet 
stripes ; fore legs brown above, the mid legs with some brown at 
femoro-tibial joint and scarlet streak on the tibia above, the tarsi 
brown slightly ringed with white; abdomen yellowish white. 
Fore wing pale yellow; the base of costa brown; a brown discoidal 
bar, produced above and below on both inner and outer sides like a 
eapital I and with a similarly formed scarlet discoidal striga on it. 
Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white. 
Q. Fore wing without the bar-shaped mark at end of cell. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 2 g, Babooni (Pratt), 
1 g, Mt. Kebea (Pratt),3 ¢,1 9. xp. 30 millim. Type T in 
Coll. Bethune-Baker. 
Secr. II. Palpi and mid legs of male normal. 
A. Fore wing with more or less distinct transverse lines. 
a. Fore wing yellow with hardly any green tinge. 
w, Fore wing with the cilia tipped with brown. 
a, Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly 
angled inwards at discal fold ............-..-.2++ cilrina. 
b?. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled 
AM VARGS Ac) USCA OLG meceacscse seeseseymetiianaciea luteolaria. 
b!, Fore wing with the cilia not tipped with brown... flavida. 
b, Fore wing green or strongly tinged with green. 
a, Fore wing with the cilia dark brown; hind wing 
ATG Mati el eI 0) Bop cscsbacnoncnagtcor casseso5o00sc0 ogovanda. 
&', Fore wing with the cilia tipped with brown ; hind 
wing semihyaline White .o.........-sssscscsersnecnees biplaga. 
cl, Fore wing with the cilia not tipped with brown, 
a?, Fore wing with the costal and inner areas 
LOR VANZ WANG) “S5Saascesaasoo saacorcanctinnnssassono cae huegeli. 
b?, Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not 
white. 
a*, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved 
below costa, then oblique. 
a*, Fore wing with three transverse lines...... insulana. 
b*. Fore wing with two transverse lines ...... vernand. 
}*, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique 
throughout. 
a4, Fore wing with three transverse lines; 
hind wing white, the termen tinged with 
PYOWI>. {.-suchacctacecdantosnckeeeeecenenaeneen came paralilela. 
}4, Fore wing with two transverse lines ; hind 
wing) Pale! VellOWi oer canoaeeeee csc eeeeceeanees subviridis, 
B. Fore wing without transverse lines. 
a. Fore wing with brown terminal band. 
a, Fore wing with the terminal band broad ; hind 
wing suffused with brown «....... sescessere--neceee latimargo, 
b1, Fore wing with the terminal band narrow ; hind 
wing semihyaline white ......... a nieeisse hae suse themes cupreoviridis, 
b. Fore wing without brown terminal band. 
al, Fore wing olive-green suffused with reddish ; hind 
Wine tinzed with Tedyearkowesssacccm-ccteewscmeeene ne glaucescens. 
b1, Fore wing green with more or less developed 
patch of pink suffusion on disk; hind wing 
Lined with” brow ccactaeesatcyece<:sceurese nt seeaee rosetfera, 
