344 NOCTDID.T];. 



*6G51. Gadirtha tumeri. (riate CLXXXIII. fig. 28.) 

 OohtJiophora turner i, BetU.-Ba.lier, Nov. Zoo], xiii. p. 220 (1006). 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi pale 

 groy with black stripe at side of 2nd joint, the extremity of 3rd 

 joint black ; tegnlse with black medial line, the tips dark brown ; 

 metathoracic crest mostly dark brown ; fore tarsi black ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. fore wing grey tinged with red-brown, the 

 antemedial area suffused with black especially towards costa ; 

 antemedial line fine, black, dentate, angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold ; orbicular 

 a small tuft of rufous scales defined by whitish ; reniform fuscous 

 with whitish annulus defined by black, its inner edge angled inwards 

 in discal fold and its outer outwards to postmedial line, a small tuft 

 of rufous scales defined by whitish in centre ; postmedial line fine, 

 double filled in with whitish, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at vein 6, then strongly dentate and bent 

 inwards below vein 3; subterminal line pale, diffused, waved, 

 almost obsolete towards costa, then defined on inner side by small 

 dentate brown marks ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia pale 

 rufous. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially on 

 terminal area ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 tinned with brown, 



Hab. Bb, Kew Guinea, Babooni (Frc^t), type f $ in Cull. 

 Bethune-Jiaker, E.rp. 40 miHim. 



*0652. Gadirtha costipallens, (Plate CLXXXIII, fig. 8.) 



Gadiriha costipallens, Beth,-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 220 (1906). 



2 . Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown, the tegulge 

 and patagia pale grey-green, the latter above and the metathorax 

 behind edged with brown; abdomen Mhite tinged with brown. 

 Pore wing pale red-brown mixed with pale grey-green, the costal 

 area white slightly irrorated with brown from antemedial line to 

 apex ; a black streak below the cell from base to below origin of 

 vein 2; subbasal line black defined by whitish on outer side, acutely 

 angled outwards below ccsta and ending at subcostal nervure, a 

 diffused black patch beyond it below costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, angled inwards below costa and obsolete below 

 the cell ; orbicular represented by a black point ; reniform defined 

 by black, its outer edge produced to a point and with a slight ridge 

 of raised scales in middle with some rufous beyond it ; diffused 

 •wedged-shaped black streaks beyond upper and lower angles of 

 cell ; postmedial line obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 7, 

 excurved to vein 6, incurved at vein n, then again excurved and 

 angled outwards in submedian fold, then strongly incurved; a faint 

 dentate subterminal line with an oblique blackish streak to it 



