146 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 
area rather darker ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base ; the 
underside paler except the terminal area, a black discoidal point, 
and rather diffused sinuous brown postmedial line. 
Hab. Dutcu N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 $ type. Exp. 
26 mi. 
(2a) Locastra atriplagalis, sp. n. 
. Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; palpi red-brown 
and dark brown, the 2nd joint white behind towards tips; antennz 
red-brown ; shoulders and outer edge of patagia with red-brown 
stripes irrorated with blackish; legs brown and black, the tarsi 
ringed with white; abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore 
wing white tinged with rufous; the antemedial area with a large 
black patch from costa to submedian fold, with a tuft of black 
hair on its lower edge, some pale golden green below its outer part, 
its outer edge defined by white ; a small discoidal tuft of red scales 
with a blackish mark above it on costa ; a curved blackish medial 
line from submedian fold to inner margin, where there is a blackish 
striga before it; some pink suffusion beyond the cell and on inner 
medial area; a small red and blackish postmedial patch on costa ; 
a diffused red and blackish postmedial line, obliquely incurved 
below vein 6, the area beyond it pale golden green, becoming 
whitish towards termen; an indistinct dentate white subterminal 
line from vein 6 to inner margin, defined at sides by slight red 
and blackish marks; a terminal series of minute blackish spots ; 
cilia ochreous with a punctiform dark line at middle and dark line 
near tips. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly tinged 
with pink to vein 2; a fine red terminal line and line through the 
cilia. Underside of fore wing purplish pink, the costa and apical 
area suffused with brown; hind wing with the costal area and 
terminal area to vein 2 purplish pink, a shght red postmedial line 
from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. Dutcu N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 19 type. Exp. 
40 mm. 
(7c) Stericta carniola, sp. n. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous irrorated with a few black 
scales, the antennal processes tipped with fiery red; palpi with the 
3rd joint blackish at base and tips; fore legs suffused with dark 
brown. Fore wing pale flesh-red, the basal area suffused with red- 
brown, the terminal area red-brown with fine white streaks on the 
veins, the streaks of hair white and blackish ; traces of an oblique 
brown line from middle of costa to inner margin before middle ; 
a faint slightly curved brown line just beyond the cell; a faint 
brown postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish; a fine 
white line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale flesh-red, the terminal 
area tinged with red-brown except towards tornus with fine white 
streaks on the veins, the streak of hair in discal fold black and the 
streak in submedian fold black and white; a rufous medial shade 
and slight red-brown postmedial line ; a fine white line at base of 
