new Species of Lepidoptera. 227 
ternal angle: secondaries cream-coloured: thorax ochreous ; 
abdomen and under surface cream-coloured. Expanse of 
wings 10 millim. 
New Britain. 
45. Artaxa fulva, sp. n. 
&. Bright deep cadmium-yellow ; primaries darker. than 
secondaries, and crossed at about the basal third by a slightly 
arched whitish stripe; fringes of all the wings pale creamy 
yellow; abdomen pale along the dorsal region. Wings below 
ochreous, paler than above, with creamy borders; body 
-ochreous. Expanse of wings 23 millim. 
Duke-of-York Island. 
_ Allied to A. lutea. 
46. Aroa immaculata, sp. n. 
3g. Cream-coloured, with the exception of the upper surface 
of the primaries, which is ochreous, and the pectinations of 
the antenne, which are testaceous. LHxpanse of wings 21 
millim. 
Duke-of- York Island. 
The large deeply-pectinated antenne at once distinguish 
this from all species of Artaxa. 
47. Syntherata Godeffroyit, sp. n. 
¢. Ochreous ; primaries above with the costal border and 
subapical area irrorated with brownish scales, giving them a 
sordid appearance; basicostal border lilacine greyish ; lilacine 
greyish stripes as follows * :—a deeply dentate zigzag stripe 
from below the first median branch to the internal margin, 
a short irregularly dentate-sinuate stripe from costa across the 
external third of the cell, and two parallel undulated stripes 
enclosing a band of colour slightly paler than the ground- 
tint across the disk; a small ocellus with blackish-edged 
hyaline white centre, and a white iris encircled by a lilacine- 
greyish line, at the end of the cell; costal area at apex 
broadly lilacine greyish, crossed by a blackish spot; a sub- 
marginal series of squamose blackish dashes: secondaries with a 
small triangular blackish spot with pale flesh-coloured border 
at the end of the cell, and immediately followed by an arched 
series of about nine large unequal diamond-shaped spots, out- 
lined in lilacine greyish ; a dentate-sinuate flesh-coloured 
stripe, spotted with blackish between the veins, running 
* This coloration is produced by a combination of reddish-chocolate 
and white scales. 
