778 



AKCTTADjE. 



wing with the inner area tinged with orange to middle, where it 

 is joined by an obscure band from costa. 



Kab. Queensland, Warwick, t} r pe t 6 in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Fig. 254. — Ionthas ataracta, <$ . \. 



Genus DIACONISIA, nov. 



Type, D. ocliraceorufa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, reaching 1 almost to 

 vertex of head ; antenna? of male ciliated ; tibias with the spurs moderate. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the term en evenly curved ; vein 2 

 from beyond middle of cell, curved ; 3 from long before angle ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 

 10, 11 from cell, oblique. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Caprimima in the fore wing having vein 2 curved. 



*1001 b. Diaconisia ocliraceorufa. 



Melansema ocliraceorufa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 203 (1913). 



c? . Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous, the tips of 

 tegulse, upper edge of patagia, and dorsum of thorax deeper rufous ; 

 fore and mid tibiae and tarsi and the hind tarsi brown ; abdomen 

 yellow. Fore wing yellow, the costal edge rufous, the terminal 



Fig. 255. — Diaconisia ocliraceorufa, cS . 



area suffused with rufous ; the costal area pale yellow irrorated 

 with red-brown obliquely from apex to inner margin near base 

 and defined below by a rufous shade. Hind wing pale yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing tinged with rufous. 



Sab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. {Meek), 

 type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 26 millim. 



