806 AECTIAD-E. 



1148. Nadaria discipimcta. 



Larva. Piepers. Tijd. t. Ent. xlvii. p. 164. 

 Thickly clothed with hair. 



Cocoon a circular palisade of hair with the green pupa marked 

 with hrown in the centre, its head angulate and extremity pointed. 



*lli>0 a. Gyinnochronia plagiata. 



Gymnochroma plagiata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 220 (1913). 



Fore wing with vein 9 shortly stalked with 6, 7. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous; 

 the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi more rufous and ringed with white. 

 Fore wing white faintly tinged with rufous; a sinuous brownish 

 subbasal line from costa to inner margin ; a fulvous yellow ante- 

 medial patch with irregular edges from costa to median nervure 



Fig. 268. — Gymnochroma plagiata, rf . •§. 



and 'oblique brown line from it to inner margin ; a round dark red- 

 brown spot with white annulus in middle of cell; a fulvous yellow 

 hand with irregular outer edge from costa across end of cell to 

 vein 2 with brown line from it to inner margin ; an oblique fulvous 

 yellow patch from apical part of costa to discal fold beyond the 

 cell, where it is almost joined by an irregularly triangular patch 

 from middle of termen enclosing a slight white mark on termen at 

 vein 4 ; a fulvous yellow patch from below vein 3 to above inner 

 margin extending from just beyond the pust medial band to termen. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white. 



llab. Bh. N. Guinea, Mambare R-, Biagi (Meefc), type f 

 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 1G millim. 



Genus MELASTROTA. 



Type. 

 Melastrota, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (7) xv. p. 439 (1905) nigrisquamatd. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons ; antenna:- of 

 male ciliated; hind tibiae with the -purs long-. Fore wing- rather short and 

 broad; vein 2 from towards angle of cell, oblique; 3 from before angle; 

 at; 6 from below upper ang-le ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked ; 11 anastomosing 

 with 12, which has two veinlets between it and costa; male with the sub- 

 costal ana to end of cell and upper part of cell clothed with black scales on 



