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excurved to median nervnre, then oblique, some dark suffusion 

 beyond it in and below cell and an oblique line from submedian 

 fold to inner margin ; a slight discoidal lunule and tuft of raised 

 scales at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line double, obsolescent 

 towards costa, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, excurved 

 at middle and below submedian fold, crossed by a pale streak from 

 lower angle of cell to beyond the indistinct subterminal line which 

 is incurved below vein 3 ; a series of slight dark lunules before 

 termen ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia grey-brown with a 

 rufous line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of 

 basal half semihyaline to just below the cell ; cilia whitish with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside grey-brown. 



Hah. Er. New Guinea, Area E,. (Meek), type f $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. E.iy. 32 millim. 



*6454. Nigramma albicans. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 24.) 

 Lophop/era albicans, Pag. Zoologica, xii. Heft 29, p. 92, pi. ii. f. 40 (1900). 



2 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the 

 outer half of patagia briglit rufous ; antennae dark brown ; tarsi 

 banded with blackish; ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore 

 wing ochreous irrorated with rufous, the inner area below sub- 

 median fold bright rufous, expanding beyond the cell to termen at 

 discal fold and leaving some ochreous at base of inner margin ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, double, curved, minutely waved, 

 filled in with white in submedian interspace and with black-brown 

 spot beyond it on median nervure ; reniform faintly defined by 

 rufous, constricted at middle ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 oblique below vein 4, some minute dark streaks beyond it on costa : 

 subterminal line indistinct, double, minutely Avaved, some blackish 

 before and beyond it at costa ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined on inner side by ochreous ; cilia ochreous tinged 

 with rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, the 

 cilia ochreous tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Ni:w Bkitain, Kiniguuang (Ribhe), type t $ in Coll. 

 llothschild. E.xy. 28 millim. 



Genus SADARSA. 



lype. 

 Sadarsa, Moore, Lap. Atk. p. 1 64 ( 1 882) lovgiiyennis. 



Proboscis fiiHy deyeloped ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iid joint reacbing 

 about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; f'rons smootb, 

 with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; tborax 

 clothed abnost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibise slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with small doisal crests on 

 three basal segments. Fore wing vei'y long and narrow, the costa and inner 

 margin parallel, the costa highly arched towards apex, the termen very 

 obliquely curved and hai'dly crenulate, the inner margin lobed near base; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 



