434: Colonel C. Svviuhoe on 



Galtoris laraca, nov. 



J . Of the usual olive-brown colour ; palpi below and 

 pectus whitish : fore wings with a white diaphanous spot at 

 upper end of cell, another obliquely below it before the lower 

 end, a large square spot touching the lower end of the cell 

 and a smaller equally square spot obliquely above it, its inner 

 lower corner nearly touching the upper outer corner of the 

 lower spot; a dot in a line beyond these two spots, and above 

 this are the three usual subapical dots in the usual curve ; a 

 small spot in the middle of tlie internal vein ; hind wing 

 with two spots close together in the middle of the disk ; the 

 centre part of the fore wing is darker than the remainder of 

 the wing, and the hind wing is broadly margined with darker 

 brown along the cosla. Underside much paler, with an 

 ochreous suffusion ; spots as above, the lower internal part of 

 the fore wing suffused with black. 



Expanse of wings 1-^q inch. 



Woodlark Island {Meek) (type in B. M.). 



Notocrypta aluensis, nov. 



S ? . Uniform dark black ; palpi white beneath : fore 

 wings with an outwardly curved, curiously shaped medial 

 band composed of four spots from the middle of the costa to 

 near the hinder margin before the angle ; first spot quite 

 small and nearly touching the costa, the second large, nearly 

 round, the third cylindrical, its outer two thirds extending 

 beyond the round spot, all three touching each other ; the 

 front spot small, excavated on its inner side like the letter C 

 below the outer end of the third spot and slightly separated 

 from it : hind wings unmarked ; cilia black. Underside 

 blackish brown, the band not macular ; male with two white 

 subapical dots, first near the costa, the others well separated 

 from it and nearer the outer margin ; female with a series of 

 five subapical dots, curving outwards and then downwards. 



Expanse of wings, ^ I^q, ? 1 j^^ inch. 



Alu Islands. 



Somewhat resembling rvoJmna, Plots, from Aru and Ke 

 Islands. 



Ismene h 



usca, nov. 



? . Palpi, face, and pectus scarlet-orange, last joint of 

 palpi brown j antennse black ; head, body, and wings olive- 

 brown ; abdomen with scarlet-orange bands on the last two 

 segments ; anal tuft similarly coloured : fore wings without 



