EISOBA. 437 



medial line. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins brown, 

 the terminal area broadly brown ; cilia brown with pale line at base ; 

 the underside with the costal area suffused with brown and with 

 some white marks towards apex, a dark discoidal lunule and oblique 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 7. 



Hah. Be. JST. Gxtinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 3 c^ , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 

 1 d , Aroa E,. Kvp. 36 millim. Type f J in Coll. Bethuue- 

 Baker. 



6784. Risoba literata. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 3.) 



JRlsoha literata, Moore, P.Z. S. 1881, p. 329; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 399. 

 Heliotliis alhistriata, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. f. Nat. xli. p. 132 (1888) ; 



id. Zoologica, xii. hft. 29, p. 71, pi. i. f. 20. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; the tegulae 

 with dark brown patches, the patagia with white outer edge ; 

 pectus and legs yellowish white, the fore and mid tibiae brown in 

 front, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white with 

 subdorsal brown patches on 2nd to 4th segments, the three following 

 segments rufons, the anal segment white with V-shaped dorsal 

 brown mark and lateral streaks, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing olive-grey suffused and irrorated in parts with rufous ; a 

 white patch at base with very oblique outer edge and slight rufous 

 marks on it below the cell and above inner margin ; faint traces of 

 an oblique dentate rufous antemedial line from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 dark brown point in middle of cell and rufous discoidal spot with 

 faint pale annulus ; a narrow white postmedial band, strongly 

 angled outwards and slight below costa, then oblique, straight, con- 

 nected by a white fascia on inner margin with the basal patch, 

 some oblique white strise beyond it from costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, defined on inner side by dark brown, reduced to small 

 dentate marks at middle, excurved from below vein 7, a patch of 

 red-brown suffusion beyond it below apex ; a terminal series of 

 minute dark lunules defined by a slight waved whitish line. Hind 

 wing yellowish white with some red-brown suffusion on basal area, 

 the terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; a terminal series of slight 

 dark spots defined by a whitish line ; cilia yellowish white ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown dis- 

 coidal lunule. 



Hah. Madras, Mlgiris, 1 cJ type ; CETLON,'Puttalam (Pole), 1 ^ ; 

 Ambohsta ; INew Britain. Exij. 36-38 millim. 



6785. Risoba avola. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 4.) 



Eisoba avola, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 234 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with white ; mid 

 tibiae black-brown except at extremity, the tarsi brown ringed with 



