466 Col. C. Swinhoe on new 
frons, head, and thorax white, tinged with crimson ; ablomen 
crimson, without markings; a black spot on the head and 
one on each tegula: wings pale smoky brown; fore wings 
with a white 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 
wings 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). 
Subfamily Nyoreuerinz. 
Nyctemera onetha, nov. 
¢ ¢. 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.=V. 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 Lrrvosirwz. 
Genus MonosyNTAXIS, nom. nov. 
Monotaais, Hmpsn, Cat, Lep. Phal. B. M. ii. p. 181 (1900) (praeoce.), 
