Species ofVyvn\\i}x. 4'^5 



white ; wings with a cupreous gloss ; fore wing with slight 

 blackish discoiclal point ; both wings with tine pale line at 

 base ofc cilia. 



JIa/'. SiNGAPOKE [Ridley)^ 1 ^ type. Exp. 2G mm. 



(22 fl) Nacoleia xanthota, sp. n. 



S. Head yellow ; palpi black except at base; antenn.ne 

 brown except basal joint ; tegnlie and patagia oraujic- 

 yellow, the latter brown at tips, the dorsum of thorax 

 brown ; pectus and legs yellow, the tarsi ringed with brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown slightly mixed with yellow, the 

 extremity and base of ventral surface orange-yellow. Fore 

 wing dark l)rowu sliglitly irroratcd with yellow ; a yellow 

 subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line yellow, 

 erect, somewhat expanding at costa; a large triangular 

 orange-yellow patch on middle of inner margin ; a large 

 quadrate orange-yellow patch on costa towards apex with 

 the faint postmedial line arising from its lower inner edge, 

 bent inwards below vein 3 and touching the medial patch at 

 inner margin ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow; a brown spot at base of inner margin; 

 large dark brown patches at apex and tornus, with tiiree 

 small spots between them on termen ; cilia brown with 

 a fine pale line at base. 



Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa [Pratt), 1 ^ type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



(25 a) Nacoleia lophuphoralis, sp. n. 



Nacoleia /oj)hophoralis, Viileman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1911, p. 379, non 

 deacr. 



Fore wing of male on underside with fold and fringe of 

 hair in lower part of cell containing a tuft of very long hair 

 from base of costa. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous brown ; 

 palpi blackish at tips ; anal tuft black in male. Fore wing- 

 pale ochreous brown ; antemedial line fuscous, exeurved 

 from costa to submediau fold ; then oblique ; a black point 

 in middle of cell and small discoidal lunule ; postmedial 

 line fuscous, exeurved between veins 5 and 2, tlien retracted 

 to lower angle of cell and again exeurved; a fuscous ter- 

 minal line. Hind wing pale ochreous brown ; a small black 

 discoidal spot; postmedial line fuscous, bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell 

 and oblique to above tornus ; a fuscous terminal line and 

 slight dark line through the cilia. 



