44 NOCTUID.I'.. 



black mark below submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 double, waved, oblique; orbicular and renitbrra sligbtly defined by 

 fuscous, the former round ; an oblique sinuous medial line with 

 diffused brown patch beyond it on costa and greenish patch in cell 

 an oblique irregular black fascia with grey below it in submedian 

 fold from medial to subterminal line; postmedial line very in- 

 distinct and interrupted, black below costa and between veins 6 

 and 4, with small black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved and slightly waved below vein 4 ; an indistinct diff"used 

 dark subterminal line, excurved below costa and at middle and 

 angled outwards above vein 1, wilh black streak from it below 

 vein 2 iutersecting the cilia; some diffused brown just before 

 termen from apex to vein 4 and towards tornus ; cilia red-brown ; 

 the apex somewhat acute in male. Hind wing white ; the veins 

 brownish ; the apical area purplish brown from middle of costa and 

 down to vein 2, in female wholly suffused with brown ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated and suffused with rufous, a dark 

 patch at middle of costa, slight discoidal spot, and diff'used waved 

 postmedial line excurved below costa and at middle. 



Uah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa {Pratt), type t cj' in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), Ekeikei {Pratt), 1 j . E.vp. 38- 

 42 millim. 



3618. Thalatha eceicei. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 30.) 



Acronycta ekeikei, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 198 (190')). 



cT . Head and thorax white mixed with yellow-green; palpi 

 black-brown, white at extremity of 2nd joint; frons with lateral 

 biack-brown bars ; antennae blackish except at base; pectus and 

 legs mixed with rufous and black-brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish mixed with deep rufous and black, 

 the ventral surface almost entirely deep rufous. Fore wing white 

 mixed with pale yellow-green ; a subbasal blackish striga from 

 costa and point on median nervure with black patch beyond it on 

 costa and minute fiery-red lunule above vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 with black points on costa, then very indistinct, greenish, oblique, 

 sinuous ; orbicular and reniform very slightly defined by blackish, 

 the former round, open above and below, the latter with greenish 

 centre and white annulus; an erect greenish medial band expanding 

 into a triangular patch on costa, obscuring the outer part of orbicular ; 

 postmedial line very indistinctly double filled in with white, almost 

 obsolete and strongly bent outwards below costa, then luuulate 

 with black strise on its outer edge, incurved below vein 4, with 

 alternating white and black points beyond it on costa, crossed by 

 an oblique irregular black fascia in submedian interspace from' 

 medial band to termen before which it is interrupted ; a very ill- 

 defined lunulate white subterminal band, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a 

 terminal series of black strise defined on inner side by white 

 lunules; cilia white with slight blackish line through them and 



