THALATHA. 45 



some black at tips. Hind witig white, the medial veins brown, 

 the apical area and terminal area to vein 2 broadly BufFused with 

 purple-brown ; cilia white with brown line through them towards 

 lupex. Underside of lore wing deep rufous with white streaks 

 from base, fascia on inner margin and wedge-shaped marks on 

 termen from vein 5 to tornus ; hind wing with the costal and 

 apical areas rufous,, a dark bar from middle of costa, spot at upper 

 angle of cell, and sinuous postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa and excurved at middle. 



2 . Fore wing with the subbasal lunule below submedian fold 

 black; hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with purple-brown. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea," Ekeikei {Pratt), 1 $ , Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 

 1 cS . Exp. 6 38, $ -1:2 millim. Type t <5 in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker, 



3619. Thalatha psorallina. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 31.) 



Acronycta psorcdlina, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 31 (1903). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale yellow-green, the 



latter with a rufous shade on dorsum; palpi black-brown except at 



extremity of 2nd joint; frons with lateral black bars ; antennae 



blackish except at base ; pectus and legs largely mixed with deep 



rufous, the tarsi black tinged with white ; abdomen white suffused 



with blackish towards extremity, the ventral surface deep rufous 



mixed wnth black and with white bar on penultimate segment. 



Fore wing white mostly suffused wdtih pale yellow-green ; subbasal 



line represented by a dark striga from costa and point on median 



nervure, with black spot beyond it on costa and miniite fiery-red 



lunule above vein 1 ; antemedial line with black point at costa, 



then double, greenish, waved ; orbicular and reniform slightly 



defined by blackish, the former round, the latter with greenish 



centre and white annulus ; a strong green shade from middle of 



costa to median nervure obscuring the outer part of orbicular, 



traversed by the double waved medial line which is blackish 



towards costa, greenish below the cell; postmedial line double 



filled in with white, w'ith black spots at costa, then green with 



black strige on it, bent outwards belowr costa, then minutely waved, 



excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with alternating black and 



white marks beyond it on costa, crossed by an oblique black streak 



in submedian fold from medial line to termen before which it is 



interrupted ; subterminal line indistinct, white, waved, excurved 



below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards in submedian fold 



and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of green striae with 



white lunules before them ; cilia white with slight black lunules at 



middle and tips. Hind wing white, the apical area suffused with 



pale rufous ; cilia white, rufous at apex. Underside of fore wing 



rufous with white streak below base of costa, white fascia on inner 



margin, some white spots on costa beyond middle and dentate 



■marks on termen below veins 4 and 3 ; hind wing with the costal 



