BEARA.—GELASTOCERA, 583 
discocellulars with some dark suffusion between them ; postmedial 
line slight, double, dark filled in with pinkish, angled outwards 
below costa, incurved to vein 4, then somewhat oblique and 
minutely waved; a fine pale subterminal line, angled inwards at 
Fig. 228.—Beara papuana, S. 3. 
discal fold, then excurved and minutely waved ; a fine black terminal 
line and white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins 
brown, the apical area suffused with brown; the underside with 
the costal area tinged with brown. 
Hab. Detca N, Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 ¢g type. Eup. 
20 millim. 
Genus GELASTOCERA. f 
ype. 
Gelastocera, Butl. A.M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 476 (1877) ..........00...00 ee 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 
vertex of head, moderately scaled and slightly fringed with hair behind at 
extremity, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; 
eyes large, round; antennz of male bipectinate with long branches to two- 
thirds length, the apical part ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 
mixed and without crests; tibie slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with 
slight basal crest only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and 
acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 
angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
rather long areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 
5 fully developed from just above angle of cell ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 
mosing with the cell near base only, 
A. Fore wing with the postmedial area suffused with 
fuscous ; hind wing wholly suffused with brown......... exusta, 
B. Fore wing with the postmedial area not suffused with 
fuscous ; hind wing yellowish white, 
a, Fore wing deep purplish chestnut ................0se0.-se000 castaned. 
b, Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish crimson ...  ochroleucana, 
6992. Gelastocera exusta. 
Gelastocera exusta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 476 (1877); id. Ill. Het. 
B.M. ii. p. 13, pl. 24. f. 2; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 613. 
Microleon rubicundula, Wileman, Trans. Ent, Soc, 1J11, p. 349, pl. xxx. f.14, 
Head and thorax red-brown; palpi at base, pectus and legs 
whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi banded with brown; abdomen 
grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing red-brown 
with a slight ochreous tinge, the terminal half tinged with purple 
