1G6 NOCxtriD.l^. 



white line at base and whitish tips ; the underside with, slight 

 discoidal lunule and blackish bar from middle of costa. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing wilh the rufous patch extending to postmedial 

 line leaving a blackish patch at middle of costa. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing without the rufous patch, 

 5 . Head and teguloe ochreous suffused with rufous, the rest of 

 thorax I'ed-brown ; abdomen gre}' suffused with brown ; fore wing 

 greenish gre}' suffused in parts with rufous and purplish fuscous and 

 irrorutod with brown. 



Ab. 3. Thorax and fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown. 



Hah. Be. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), 2 cj' , 2 $ type, Mt. Kebea 

 {Pratt), 2 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 42-50 millim. 



6395. Stictoptftra ferrifera. (Plate CLXXVITI. fig. 7.) 



Sieiria ferrifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. yii. p. 173(1864) ; Hinpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 401 ; Swinli. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91 ; Semper, 

 Eeisen Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 536, pi. 60. f. 12. 



S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown ; pectus ochreous 

 white; legs red- brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown glossed with purplish grey, the area 

 just beyond and below end of cell paler ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 waved ; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity : 

 orbicular slightly defined by blackish on outer side only ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with tuft of blackish scales in centre ; 

 medial line blackish, almost straight, slightly oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then erect ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 pale red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved 

 and produced to slight points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, 

 a faint whitish line beyond it; sabterminal line indistinct, double, 

 dark, minutely dentate, filled in with white between veins 4 and 2, 

 with slight dentate black marks before it below costa and some 

 white irroration before it below veins 4, 3 and beyond it on inner 

 lialf, slightly incurved between veins 3 and 2 ; a series of dark 

 striae just before termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, terminal 

 area and inner margin fuscous brown ; cilia white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside with slight dark discoidal 

 lunule and striga from middle of costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with some greenish yellow on subbasal line, 

 before the reniform, before the postmedial line, and on terminal 

 area below middle. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with broad inverted V-shaped whitish patch 

 between subbasal and medial lines not extending below vein 1. 



5 . Head and tegulse more ochreous ; thorax white mixed with 

 red-brown ; abdomen grey-white tinged with brown ; fore wing 

 white irrorated with brown and suffused in parts with red-brown 

 and purple-brown. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with some greenish yellow suffusion on outer 

 half of medial area and on terminal area below vein 3. 



