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(52 a) Sylepta heliochroa, sp. n. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen very pale yellow ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore legs 

 faintly tinged with brown. Fore win^ very pale yellow, 

 the costa whitish, the termen with faint dark shade expanding 

 at apex. Hind wing very pale yellow. 



? . Abdomen dorsally fulvous except at base ; fore wing 

 without trace of the terminal shade. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 2 c? , 2 ? type. 

 Ed'p. SO mm. 



(52 b) Si/Iepta tetratJnjraVis, sp. n. 



(J . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; palpi 

 with the third joint black ; maxillary palpi black above ; 

 pectus and ventral surface of abdomen wliitish. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow, the medial area suffused with fulvous except 

 the costal area and inner raai'gin ; the costal edge black ; 

 a hyaline spot from middle of cell to above vein 1 connected 

 with a hyaline point beyond it in cell ; a yellow point at 

 upper angle of cell and a hyaline spot beyond lower angle 

 between veins 5 and 2 ; an indistinct diti'used waved sub- 

 terminal line, incurved from vein 6 to below 5. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow ; some fulvous suffusion on basal inner area ; 

 a small dark brown mark on median nervure near base 

 folloAved by a hyaline patch from middle of cell to submedian 

 fold, then a fulvous- brown patch extending to beyond cell 

 with a hyaline spot on it beyond lo\Aer angle, somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; an indistinct, rather diffused, waved 

 fulvous subterminal line. 



Hab. S.W. New Guinica, Kapaur [Doherty), 1 ^ type. 

 Exp. 26 mm. 



(59 a) Sylejjta atteniialis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with brown ; ab- 

 domen pale ochreous dorsally tinged with brown and with 

 paired subdorsal black points on third segment, in male very 

 elongate and attenviated ; wings thinly scaled. Fore wing 

 elongate and produced at apex ; pale ochreous irrorated with 

 brown especially on costal area to postmedial line ; a subbasal 

 black spot on inner margin ; an oblique sinuous fuscous ante- 

 medial line ; a black point in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; 

 postmedial line fuscous, bent outwards below veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted to below angle of cell and oblique to inner 

 margin; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia whitish 



