432 NOCTUiD.ii;. 



green and ending on vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely dentate, incurved 

 in submedian interspace, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line brown, minutely dentate, incurved below costa, 

 excurvcd at middle, then oblique ; a series of black striae just before 

 termen, slightly defined by white on inner side. Hind wing white 

 with broad fuscous brown terminal band ; a fine white line just before 

 termen from apex to submedian fold ; cilia white mixed with some 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged with brown, a 

 black discoidal spot and broad black terminal band leaving a pale 

 green lunulate line on termen. 



Hah. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak(Pra«)> 2 S ; 15r. New Guinea, 

 Dinawa {Pratt), type f d" in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Eacp. 36-40 

 millim. 



6777. Risoba delicata. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 28.) 

 Bt!,oba delicata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 233 (1906). 



o . Head and thorax white mixed with some pale yellow-green 

 and brown ; palpi brown at sides ; tarsi brown ringed with M'hite ; 

 abdomen white mixed with brown, the basal and some of the medial 

 segments with slight black segmental lines, the ventral surface 

 suffused with brown towards extremity. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with brown and suffused in parts with pale yellow-green ; a subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antcmedial line slight, dark defined on 

 inner side by white, minutely waved, angled outwards just below 

 the cell ; orbicular a small green spot with very ill-defined white 

 annulus ; reniform with green centre and white annulus partly 

 defined by black, elliptical ; an indistinct sinuous medial line, dark 

 brown towards costa, then green ; postmedial line slight, dark, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black 

 points on the veins, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line white 

 defined on inner side by black-brown, strongly from below costa to 

 discal fold and from vein 2 to inner margin, slightly at middle, 

 dentate below veins 9 and 7, excurved and minutely dentate at 

 middle, an oblique black-brown mark beyond it from apex ; a series 

 of black strise defined on inner side by white lunules just before 

 termen ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing white, the 

 veins tinged with brown, the terminal area brown ; a series of slight 

 white lunules just before termen ; cilia white and blackish ; the 

 underside with black discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with oblique brown shade from costa near base 

 to inner margin beyond the antemedial line. 



Bab. Dutch jST. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 2 d" ; Br. N. Guinea, 

 Dinawa (Pratt), 5 c? , Avola (Pratt), 1 cJ , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 

 2 (S . E.rp. 34 millim. Type f in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



