AGS Sir G. F. Ilampson on new Pyraiidae 



costa tinged with rufous ; the inner area tinged with yellow 

 and witli an oblique dark medial line from vein 1 to inner 

 margin ; a pale yellow postmcdial band edged with dark lines, 

 contracting towards costa, and below vein 2 bent upwards to 

 the discocellulars ; a yellow terminal band with fuscous line 

 on its inner edge and black stri:e on tcrraen. Hind wing 

 with incurved fuscous postmcdial line between discal and 

 submedian folds, a diffused yellow band beyond it bent 

 outwards below apex and angled strongly inwards on inner 

 area; the termen yellow, expanding on medial area and with 

 seven black-edged wliite spots with black points on their 

 outer edges. 



Hab. Bk. N. Guinea, ]N[oroka [Anthony), 1 ^ type. 

 Jll.tp. 21 mm. 



(31 a.) Aulacodcs penlopalis, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax golden yellow mixed with some 

 white ; fore femora blackish above, the tibise with black 

 band at extremity ; abdomen yellow, the first segment and 

 ventral surface wliite. Fore wing silvery white, the costal 

 area brown to beyond middle ; an obli([ue antemedial brown 

 line; an oblique brown band from just below middle of 

 costa, below which it forks, to above inner margin towards 

 tornus, a large rounded white patch beyond it extending to 

 lower angle of cell and defined by brown on outer side ; the 

 terminal area orange, with a silvery-grey subtcrminal band 

 formed of small conjoined spots defined on each side by fine 

 waved black lines from just below co>ta to the oblique brown 

 band ; a terminal scries of small black spots ; cilia silvery 

 grey. Hind Aving white ; a black line from lower angle of 

 cell, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and ending 

 above inner margin near tornus; terminal area orange; a 

 subtcrminal band greyish towards costa and tornus, black 

 and diffused inwardly at middle, angled outwards to the 

 uppermost of the five small black s{)ots on medial part of 

 tcrnien and to termen at submedian fold, not reaching 

 tornus, the middle spot of the five with small white spot on 

 its inner side, some silvery scales on lower part of subtcrminal 

 band ; cilia brown and silvery. 



Hab. Solomons, Choiscul (il/«'A), 1 $ type. E.rp. 20mm. 



(41 a.) Auhicodes goniophoralis, sp. n. 



^ . Orange ; head and thorax mixed with fulvous ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, fore tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with fuscous. Fore wing sull'used with fulvous; 

 a whitish spot in middle of cell ; an orange fascia on terminal 



