568 NOCTUIDAE. 
obsolescent except towards costa and inner margin, the streaks on 
terminal area slight; hind wing with the veins streaked with 
white, a diffused white fascia through the cell to a diffused dentate 
white postmedial band extending from costa to below submedian 
fold. 
Hab, Putuirrines, Luzon; SamBawa, 1 ¢,1 9. Exp. ¢ 30, 
? 32 millim. 
6973. Vizaga mirabilis. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 15.) 
Parelydna mirabilis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 242 (1906). 
Head white with some fuscous on vertex; palpi bluish fuscous 
and white; antenne fuscous; thorax fulvous yellow; pectus and 
legs white, the fore femora bluish fuscous above, the tibie and tarsi 
bluish fuscous ringed with white ; mid and hind legs with the tibie 
irrorated with blue, the tarsi ringed with blue; abdomen cobalt- 
blue (fading to pale red), the anal tuft and ventral surface white 
irrorated with blue. Fore wing fulvous yellow to beyond middle 
with a greenish tinge except on costal area, the inner margin blue; 
a rather narrow and somewhat oblique white band from costa 
beyond middle to inner margin near tornus, its outer edge slightly 
produced at costa, defined on outer side by olive-green, the rest of 
terminal area cupreous red, blue below submedian fold ; cilia white 
mixed with blue, wholly blue towards tornus. Hind wing cobalt- 
blue ; cilia white mixed with blue. Underside of fore wing blue, 
the inner area white, the costa fuscous with some white scales 
towards base and beyond middle and on apieal part of termen ; 
tind wing with white irroration on base of cestal area, in cell and 
submedian fold, an apical white patch narrowing to a point at 
vein 2 and with dentate inner edge. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 5 ¢, 5 9, Mt. Kebea 
(Pratt),2. 2. Exp. 6 30, 9 34-88 millim. 
Genus MACEDA. i, 
ype. 
Maceda, Wk. xiii. 1140 (1857) mansueta, 
Calduba, Wik. xv. 1815 (1858) *...s.00ccsceessncsseetuseeeeee seen eee mansueta, 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
middle of frons and smoothly scaled, the 8rd moderate ; frons smooth; eyes 
large, round; antenne of male strongly ciiiated; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests; tibiew slightly fringed with hair; 
abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing short and 
broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 
and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form a rather long areole; 11 from cell; male with scaleless groove 
in upper part of extremity of cell on upperside, on underside filling the whole 
end of cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 fully developed from just 
ai e angle of cell; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
Jase ONY, 
