22'2 0/1 iieic Genera and S/^ecies of Noctmdse. 



Hiad wing fiery red. Underside of" fore wing fiery red, tlie 

 inner area wliifisli, tlie cilia brownish ; hind wing yellow 

 suffused with red. the terminal area fiery red. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Bibiauaha {Sjjurrell), 1 ,^ type. Eny. 

 30 nini. 



6974 «. Maceda ignepicta, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the teguhe 

 and base of patagia with some rufous ; pectus white ; tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown^ the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing grey-brown ; a fiery-red and 

 yellow patch at base of costa crossed by the black-brown 

 subbasal line and with some black-brown on its outer edge ; 

 antemedial line dark, strong towards costa, then slight, 

 exciirved below costa and cell and incurved at median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial 

 line dark, oblique to vein (), then dentate, bent iiiwards at 

 vein 3 and angled outwards at vein 1 ; a reddish p;itch 

 irrorated with brown on postmedial part of costa, defined 

 below by a dark streak on vein 6 from the postmedial line 

 to termen ; an indistinct brown subterminal line, excurved 

 below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, then waved ; tlie 

 termen brown except at apex and tornus, diffused at discal 

 fold; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the interspaces just beyond tlie cell faintly paler ; 

 cilia white at tips except towards apex ; the underside 

 white, the terminal area fuscous with sinuous inner edge, a 

 slight black discoidal lunule. 



? . Tegulae except at tips and base of pafagia fiery red ; 

 fore wing with the basal patch fiery red, the postmedial 

 patch more rufous. 



Hah. Dutch Nlw Guinea, Arfak ]\Its., Ninay Valley 

 (Pratt), ] ? ; Br. N. Guinea, Diuawa {Pratt), 1 J type. 

 Ex/j., (^36, ? 38 mm. 



Genus Tkoooxkstis, nov. 



TypH, Euhlemyna crenulana, Hetli-I>)iker. 



Proboscis fully developed ; ])alpi upturned, the sccorul 

 joint reaching to middle of frons and slenderly scaled, the 

 tliird modeiate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; auteuiue 

 of male ciliated ; thorax (lotlicd a!nu)st entirely with scales 

 and without crests; tibise slightly fringed with haii"; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the a])ex ronndcd, 

 the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, the 



