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medial line ; lines rufous-brown, sometimes with white spots on the 

 veins ; antemedial oblique from two-sevenths costa to two-fifths 

 hindmargin, angled outward at and behind M ; postmedial from five- 

 sevenths costa, irregularly waved and dentate to M 1 , where it is 

 strongly angled inward to behind reniform, thence nearly straight 

 to three-fifths hindmargin ; orbicular a dark-outlined white point ; 

 reniform usually consisting of anterior and posterior white points 

 joined by a rufous line ; a slight rufous subterminal shade ; an 

 indistinct fine marginal line ; fringe tinged with rufous. 



Hind wing ochreous-white almost entirely suffused with pale- 

 rufous. 



Underside of both wings ochreous-white, the fore wing except at 

 margins suffused with rufous ; anterior half of fore wing irrorated 

 with rufous and fuscous, and with traces of a strongly curved, waved 

 dark postmedial line with white spots on the veins, and of a slight 

 dark, curved subterminal shade ; fringes of both wings tinged with 

 rufous and tipped with white. 



? , 49—52 mm. 



Usually darker and redder than the $ , with the markings even 

 more indistinct, except the white spots at costa and on lines and 

 stigmata ; the silvery gloss over-laying a darker shade than in 

 the $ . 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, eight $ $ , nine 

 ? ? . There are also two $ $ from Wandamman Mountains, Dutch 

 New Guinea, in coll. Joicey, and a $ and ? without locality. 



Distal margin of fore wing usually little angled at E 3 , but other- 

 wise quite a typical Anomis species. A $ from New Guinea in 

 coll. Eoths. bears the name Cosmophila bicolor Warr., but the 

 species does not appear to have been published. 



63. Avitta longicorpus sp. nov. 



S , 55 mm. 



Antenna laminate, with a single bristle on each plate. 



Head, palpus, and thorax brown tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 very long, grey, clothed with some rough brown hair ; body beneath 

 and legs whitish, the mid- and hind tibia and tarsus shaded with 

 greyish-brown, the fore femora clothed with long black-brown hair. 



Fore wing grey-brown tinged with richer brown on anterior half 



