1899.] OP THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN^. 221 



Seci\ I. Antenna) of male almost simple. 



(1) NOORDA IGNEALIS, n. Sp. 



Bright yellow ; head, thorax, and abdomen suffused with fiery 

 red in parts ; palpi at base and rings on abdomen towards ex- 

 tremity, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen white. JFore 

 wing with the costal area fiery red, the costa itself dark ; dentate 

 subbasal, medial, and postmedial Hues, the last two oblique, the 

 2nd expanding into a discoidal spot, the last shghtly excurved 

 between veins 7 and 3 ; terminal area red, leaving a yellow edge 

 to postmedial line ; a diffused purplish-fuscous terminal bo.nd ; 

 cilia white, black at apex and below middle. Hind wing with the 

 terminal area purplish, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white, blackish 

 at apex and middle. 



Hah. Eergusson I., N. Guinea ; Cooktown, Queensland (Meek). 

 Exp. 16 mm. Types in Coll. Eothschild and B.M. 



(2)t]SrOOEDA ESMERALDA, n. Sp. 



Emerald-green ; head whitish ; palpi brown at sides ; antennae 

 fulvous ; hind wing greenish white, the termen green. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus) ; Venezuela, Aroa. Exp. 36 mm. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male with long cilia. 



(3)t]N'ooRDA PESSALis Swiuh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 459, pi. 41. f. 13. 

 W. Africa ; Aden ; India ; Burma ; Andamans. 

 fA'Utocharis amethysiina Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 149. 



(4)*NooRDA siisruALis, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous ; abdomen banded fuscous and 

 white. Fore wing with the basal half of costal area suffused vdth 

 fuscous ; some black scales at base of inner margin ; the ante- 

 medial line represented by some black scales in and below cell and 

 on inner margin ; the postmedial line sinuous, angled inwards 

 below costa and outwards on vein 4, some diffused fuscous scales 

 before it, and the area beyond it greyish fuscous Avith a sinuous 

 subterminal line with diffused black on its inner side ; cilia pale 

 reddish brown. Hind wing hyaline, with fuscous terminal band 

 narrowing from costa to vein 1. 



Hah. Natal, Weenen. Exp. 16 mm. Type in Coll. Eothschild. 



Ty2Je. (5)t]N'ooRDA blitealis Wlk. xix, 979. Aden ; India ; Ceylon. 

 fScojJida subjectalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1472. 



(6) NOOEDA MARGARITALIS, n. Sp. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi black ; anal tuft 

 blackish. Fore wing pearly white : a bright red fascia on costa, 

 terminating at middle in a triangular patch with its apex con- 

 joined to outer area ; the outer area brown, defined by a sinuous 

 black line on inner side, with a bi-oad silvery purple band on it 



