GIATJRA. 285 



*G574. Gianra venalis. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 30.) 

 Bendrothrvpa venalis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 226 (1906). 



(^ . Head and tegulce white, the latter with brown spots at 

 sides ; palpi brown at base and tips ; antennge black except at 

 base ; thorax white mixed with brown especially on patagia and 

 metathorax ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 brown mixed with white and irrorated with black, the medial area 

 white from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; black 

 points below base of costa and cell ; two widely separated subbasal 

 sinuous black lines from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black defined by white on inner side, oblique, sinuous ; postmedial 

 line blackish slightly defined on outer side by white, very oblique 

 and sinuous from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved and oblique 

 to inner margin; subterminal line white defined on inner side by 

 brown and with slight white suffusion before it towards costa, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal 

 and submedian folds ; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with brown. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f J in Coll. 

 liethune-Baker, E.vjj. 22 millim. 



*6575. Giaura nlgrescens. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 31.) 



Barasa wi^reseeras, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 222 (1908). 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi whitish in 

 front and at base of 3rd joint; antennae black except basal joint ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally suffused with fuscous, the basal crest white 

 tipped with black, the ventral surface irrorated with black towards 

 extremity. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and suffused with 

 black especially on basal area ; antemedial line rather diffused, black 

 defined on outer side by whitish, erect, minutely waved ; a black 

 medial line, oblique from costa to discal fold, then minutely waved, 

 an elliptical black spot beyond it in end of cell ; postmedial line 

 formed by double series of black points and with rather diffused 

 spots on costa, oblique from below costa to vein 6 and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by fuscous, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a diffused blackish apical 

 patch and terminal series of black striae. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous brown from apex to submedian 

 fold when it narrows to a point; cilia brown with a white line at 

 base, wholly white towards tornus ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused and irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa '(Pratt), type f $ in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. E.xy. 34 millim. 



