854 KOCTUIDJC. 



segment with a fuscous dorsal line. Fore wing with the basal half 

 chocolate-brown, the terminal half grey-brown ; traces of a dark 

 antemedial line, ex curved below the cost a and oblique below the 

 cell ; a large inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark defined by 

 black, its head filled in with black with an ochreous annulus, its 

 tail filled in with ochreous, the outer side of tail and inner side of 

 head defined by a white line; medial line slight, dark, arising from 

 the tail of discoidal mark, excurved round it and touching it, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique and slightly waved; a slightly waved dark subterminal line, 

 double from vein 2 to inner margin ; two waved dark lines before 

 termen. Hind wing with the basal half deep chocolate-brown, the 

 terminal half grey-brown ; indistinct slightly waved dark postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. Underside of both wings brown ; fore wing 

 with slight dark spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars and 

 faint curved medial and postmedial lines; hind wing with faint 

 ante- and postmedial lines. 



5 . Thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown ; abdomen with the 

 1st four segments banded ochreous white and black-brown, the two 

 following segments with dorsal black-brown patches ; fore wing 

 ochreous tinged with olive-brown, the costal area brownish tinged 

 with purplish grey ; the lines distinct, some red-brown suffusion 

 beyond the inner half of antemedial line, the postmedial line tinged 

 with leaden grey except between veins 7 and 5 and defined on outer 

 side by whitish from vein 5 to inner margin ; hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with olive-browu, two diffused dark antemedial lines, a 

 minutely waved leaden grey medial line with an ochreous white 

 band beyond it, a double dark brown waved subterminal line filled 

 in with ochreous white, the inner line diffused on inner side, two 

 waved lines before termen. Underside of both wings scarlet; fore 

 wing with slight brown marks in middle of cell and on discocel- 

 lulars, medial, postmedialand double slightly waved subterminal lines 

 except towards costa and inner margin ; hind wing with discoidal 

 point, curved medial line, waved postmedial line, double subter- 

 minal line, series of points before termen, and waved terminal line. 



Hah. Gekm. N. Guinea, Astrolabe Bay {Schmidt), 1 5 ; N. Ax7s- 

 TRALIA (Elseif), 1 c?, 1 2 type. Ewp. 58-60 millim. 



7466. Speiredonia sufifumosa. 



Noctua retorta. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 29, pi. 116. f. F, and iii. p. 140, 

 pi. 274. f. A ; Hmpsn. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 553 (tiec Linn.). 



Spirama suffumosa, Guen Noct. iii. p. 195 (1852). 



Spirama imhella, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 196 (1852). 



Spiramia coharens, Wlk. xiv. 1321 (1858). 



S'pirama helicina, Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. p. 150, pi. 165. fp. 4, 4 a (nee 

 Hiibn.). 



(S . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi scarlet at base ; the 

 hair on coxae and femora scarlet ; abdomen scarlet, the four basal 

 segments dorsally black-brown, the two following segments with 



