576 ARCTIAD.E. 



*56Qc. Macaduma simplex. (Plate XXX. fig. 25.) 



Nepita simplex, Pag. Zoologica, xii. 29, p. 60 (1900). 



<$ . Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; abdomen fuscous with 

 the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing uniform chocolate-brown. Hind 

 wing pale yellowish, the costal area tinged with brown. 



Hab. New Britain {Rlbbe), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 16 millim. 



*560</. Macaduma reducta. (Plate XXX. fig. 2(5.) 



Macaduma rufocostalis, reducta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 236 (1912). 



5 . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown tinged with grey, the 

 costa towards apex and apical part of termen with a cupreous 

 tinge. Hind wing and underside of fore wing grey-brown. 



Hab. D'Entrecasteaux Is., Fergusson I. {Meek), type f $ 

 in Coll. Eothschild. Exp. 18 millim. 



*560 e. Macaduma bipunctata. 



Macaduma bipunctata, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 421, pi. v. f. 29 

 (1904). 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplish grey ; 

 pectus, coxae, and part of legs bright yellow ; abdomen pale 

 brownish, the ventral surface bright yellow. Fore wing red- 

 brown suffused with purple-fuscous ; two white points above 

 median nervure in lower end of cell. Hind wing pale yellow, 

 the costal and terminal areas slightlv tinged with brown. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Dmawa,4000' {Pratt), typef $ in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 28 millim. 



*560/. Macaduma aroa. (Plate XXX. fig. 27.) 



Macaduma aroa, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 421 (1904). 



cS ■ Head and thorax red-brown with a slight purplish gloss ; 

 palpi below, pectus, and legs fulvous orange ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow, pale at base. Fore wing red-brown with a slight silvery 

 gloss ; the basal area rather darker, the medial area rather paler ; 

 an almost medial diffused red-brown line, angled outwards on 

 median nervure, then oblique and with a whitish striga before it 

 in cell ; a red-brown discoidal spot with whitish points before and 

 beyond it ; postinedial line red-brown, minutely dentate except 

 towards costa, oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; faint 

 traces of a subterminal line oblique from costa to vein 2. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, the termen and cilia tinged with red-brown 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Up. Aroa R. ( Meek), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



