466 Col. C. Swiuhoe on netv 



frons, liead, and thoiax white, tinged with criiuson ; abloiien 

 crimson, without markings ; a bhick spot on the head and 

 one on each tegula : wings pale smoky brown ; fore wings 

 with a wliite hyaline streak nearly filling outer upper half of 

 cell, a white hyaline band beyond, divided into three by the 

 veins, the lowest spot the largest : hind wings with some 

 whitish scales on basal half of costa, and also some in the 

 cell: underside with the colour of the wings paler; fore 

 w ings with markings as above ; hind wings with the entire 

 cell whitish ; body and legs crimson ; abdomen with some 

 black spots on the sides. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Gilolo {Doherty). 



Subfam i ly Ntotememinjb. 

 Nyctemera onetha, nov. 



(J ? . Frons ochreous ; thorax black, with white stripes ; 

 abdomen black, with white segmental bands and ochreous 

 tuft ; head black : fore wings black, a white club-shaped 

 stripe from the base, commencing very narrowly, then broad- 

 ening out and extending to the middle of the wing, with a 

 dent in its otherwise rounded end, its upperside running 

 along the costal vein, its lower a little above the hinder 

 margin of the wing, a small white spot just above the end of 

 the stripe ; a broad distorted white discal band, not touching 

 either costa or hinder angle, slightly irregularly sinuous on 

 its outer side, indented in three places on the inner side, 

 deeply so in the middle ; a short white line on the hinder 

 margin at the base : hind wings white, with the usual broad 

 black marginal border, its inner margin somewhat sinuous 

 and excavated in the middle : underside, legs black above, 

 ochreous beneath; thorax black, with ochreous bands; abdo- 

 men black beneath, with ochreous bands, bright ochreous at 

 the sides, with black spots. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



New Britain. 



Differs from N. crescens, Walk. = iV. luctuosum, Voll., in 

 the basal stripe not having irregular margins and in the 

 absence of the basal white streak on the basal half of the 

 hinder margin. 



Subfamily Litsosiinji. 



Genus Monosyntaxis, nom. nov. 

 Monotaxie, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ii. p. 181 (1900) (praeocc). 



